§8.22.1secutus est annus nulla re belli domive insignis, P. Plautio Proculo P. Cornelio Scapula consulibus, praeterquam quod Fregellas — §8.22.2Hernicorum is ager, deinde Volscorum fuerat — colonia deducta et populo visceratio data a M. Flavio in funere matris.
There followed a year remarkable for nothing in war or at home, in the consulship of Publius Plautius Proculus and Publius Cornelius Scapula, except that to Fregellae— —this territory had belonged to the Hernici, and then to the Volsci—a colony was led out, and a distribution of meat was given to the people by Marcus Flavius at his mother's funeral.
§8.22.3erant, qui per speciem honorandae parentis meritam mercedem populo solutam interpretarentur, quod eum die dicta ab aedilibus crimine stupratae matris familiae absolvisset.
There were those who interpreted that, under the guise of honoring his parent, a deserved reward had been paid to the people, because they had acquitted him when he was prosecuted by the aediles on the charge of violating a married woman.
§8.22.4data visceratio in praeteriti iudicii gratiam honoris etiam ei causa fuit.
The distribution of meat, given in gratitude for the past judgment, was also a source of honor for him.
tribunatumque plebei proximis comitiis petentibus absens praefertur.
And at the next elections, although absent, he was preferred to those seeking the tribuneship of the plebs.
Palaepolis fuit haud procul inde, §8.22.5ubi nunc Neapolis sita est; duabus urbibus populus idem habitabat.
Palaepolis was not far from there, where Naples is now situated; the same people inhabited the two cities.
Cumis erant oriundi; §8.22.6Cumani Chalcide Euboica originem trahunt. classe, qua advecti ab domo fuerant, multum in ora maris eius, quod accolunt, potuere, primo in insulas Aenariam et Pithecusas egressi, deinde in continentem ausi sedes transferre.
They were sprung from Cumae; by means of the fleet in which they had been carried from home, they had great power on the coast of that sea which they dwell by, having first landed on the islands of Aenaria and Pithecusas, and then having dared to transfer their settlements to the mainland.
§8.22.7haec civitas cum suis viribus tum Samnitium infidae adversus Romanos societati freta, sive pestilentiae, quae Romanam urbem adorta nuntiabatur, fidens multa hostilia adversus Romanos agrum Campanum Falernumque incolentes fecit.
This state, relying both on its own strength and on the faithless alliance of the Samnites against the Romans, or trusting to the pestilence which was reported to have attacked the city of Rome, committed many hostile acts against the Romans who inhabited the Campanian and Falernian territory.
§8.22.8igitur L. Cornelio Lentulo Q. Publilio Philone iterum consulibus, fetialibus Palaepolim ad res repetendas missis, cum relatum esset a Graecis, gente lingua magis strenua quam factis, ferox responsum, ex auctoritate patrum populus Palaepolitanus bellum fieri iussit.
Therefore, in the consulship of Lucius Cornelius Lentulus and Quintus Publilius Philo for the second time, fetial priests having been sent to Palaepolis to demand redress, when a fierce response was brought back from the Greeks—a people more active in tongue than in deeds—the people, on the authority of the senate, ordered war to be made on the Palaepolitans.
§8.22.9inter consules provinciis conparatis bello Graeci persequendi Publilio evenerunt; §8.22.10Cornelius altero exercitu Samnitibus, si qua se moverent, oppositus. fama autem erat defectioni Campanorum inminentes adCapuam admoturos castra; ibi optumum visum Cornelio stativa habere.
The provinces having been assigned between the consuls, the Greeks to be pursued in war fell to Publilius; Cornelius, with the other army, was opposed to the Samnites in case they should make any move; moreover, there was a report that they, watching for a revolt of the Campanians, would move their camp to Capua; there it seemed best to Cornelius to keep his permanent camp.