§8.39.1equitum acies, qualis esse instructissima potest, invecta in dissipatos inpeditosque hostes caede omnia replet.
The cavalry line, as well-ordered as it could possibly be, having charged into the scattered and entangled enemy, filled everything with slaughter.
§8.39.2inter sarcinas omissas repente, obiacentes pedibus fugientium consternatorumque equorum, neque pugnae neque fugae satis potentes caeduntur.
Amidst the baggage suddenly abandoned and lying in the path of the fleeing men and of the terrified horses, being capable of neither fighting nor fleeing, they were cut down.
§8.39.3tum deleto prope equitatu hostium M. Fabius circumductis paulum alis ab tergo pedestrem aciem adoritur.
Then, the enemy's cavalry having been almost destroyed, Marcus Fabius, having wheeled his wings round a little, attacked the infantry line from behind.
§8.39.4clamor inde novus accidens et Samnitium terruit animos, et dictator, ubi respectantes hostium antesignanos turbataque signa et fluctuantem aciem vidit, tum appellare, tum adhortari milites, tribunos principesque ordinum nominatim ad iterandam secum pugnam vocare.
Thence a new shout reaching them both terrified the minds of the Samnites, and the dictator, when he saw the front-rank men of the enemy looking back, their standards disordered, and their line wavering, began to call upon and exhort the soldiers, and to summon the tribunes and the leaders of the companies by name to renew the battle with him.
§8.39.5novato clamore signa inferuntur, et, quidquid progrediebantur, magis magisque turbatos hostes cernebant.
With the shouting renewed, the standards were advanced, and, the further they proceeded, the more and more disordered they saw the enemy to be.
eques ipse iam primis erat in conspectu, §8.39.6et Cornelius respiciens ad manipulos militum, quod manu, quod voce poterat, monstrabat vexilla se suorum parmasque cernere equitum.
The cavalry itself was now in sight of the foremost ranks, and Cornelius, looking back to the maniples of soldiers, demonstrated as best he could by hand and voice that he discerned the banners and small shields of his own cavalry.
§8.39.7quod ubi auditum simul visumque est, adeo repente laboris per diem paene totum tolerati vulnerumque obliti sunt, ut haud secus, quam si tum integri e castris signum pugnae accepissent, concitaverint se in hostem.
When this was heard and seen at the same time, they so suddenly forgot the toil endured for almost the whole day and their wounds that, just as if they had then received the signal for battle fresh from the camp, they rushed upon the enemy.
§8.39.8nec ultra Samnis tolerare terrorem equitum peditumque vim potuit; partim in medio caesi, partim in fugam dissipati sunt.
Nor could the Samnites any longer endure the terror of the cavalry and the force of the infantry; partly they were slain in the midst, partly they were scattered in flight.
§8.39.9pedes restantes ac circumventos cecidit; ab equite fugientium strages est facta, inter quos et ipse imperator cecidit.
The infantry cut down those who stood their ground and were surrounded; a slaughter of the fleeing was made by the cavalry, among whom the general himself fell.
hoc demum proelium Samnitium res ita infregit, §8.39.10ut omnibus conciliis fremerent minime id quidem mirum esse, si inpio bello et contra foedus suscepto, infestioribus merito deis quam hominibus, nihil prospere agerent; expiandum id bellum magna mercede luendumque esse; §8.39.11id referre tantum, utrum supplicia noxio paucorum an omnium innoxio praebeant sanguine; audebantque iam quidam nominare auctores armorum.
This battle at last so broke the power of the Samnites that in all their councils they murmured that it was indeed least surprising if, in an impious war undertaken contrary to treaty, with the gods deservedly more hostile than men, they achieved nothing successfully; that this war had to be expiated and atoned for at a great price; that it only mattered whether they offered expiation with the guilty blood of a few, or the innocent blood of all; and some now dared to name the authors of the war.
§8.39.12unum maxime nomen per consensum clamantium Brutuli Papi exaudiebatur.
One name especially, by the consensus of those shouting, was heard above the rest: Brutulus Papius.
vir nobilis potensque erat, hauddubie proximarum indutiarum ruptor.
He was a noble and powerful man, undoubtedly the breaker of the latest truce.
§8.39.13de eo coacti referre praetores decretum fecerunt, ut Brutulus Papius Romanis dederetur et cum eo praeda omnis Romana captivique ut Romam mitterentur, quaeque res per fetiales ex foedere repetitae essent, secundum ius fasque restituerentur.
The praetors, forced to bring a motion concerning him, made a decree that Brutulus Papius should be surrendered to the Romans, and with him all the Roman booty and captives should be sent to Rome, and that whatever things had been demanded back through the fetials according to treaty should be restored in accordance with human and divine law.
§8.39.14fetiales Romam, ut censuerunt, missi et corpus Brutuli exanime; ipse morte voluntaria ignominiae se ac supplicio subtraxit.
The fetials were sent to Rome, as they had decreed, and with them the lifeless body of Brutulus; he himself had escaped ignominy and punishment by a voluntary death.
placuit cum corpore bona quoque eius dedi.
It was decided that his property also should be surrendered along with his body.
§8.39.15nihil tamen earum rerum praeter captivos ac si qua cognita ex praeda sunt acceptum est; ceterarum rerum inrita fuit deditio.
Nothing of those things, however, was accepted except the captives and any identified items of the booty; the surrender of the rest of the things was ineffectual.
dictator ex senatus consulto triumphavit.
The dictator celebrated a triumph by decree of the senate.
§8.39.16hoc bellum a consulibus bellttum quidam auctores sunt eosque de Samnitibus triumphasse; Fabium etiam in Apuliam processisse atque inde magnas praedas egisse.
Some authors assert that this war was waged by the consuls and that they triumphed over the Samnites; and that Fabius even advanced into Apulia and carried off great booty from there.