§8.6.1cum consulis vocem subsecuta patrum indignatio esset, proditur memoriae adversus crebram inplorationem deum, quos testes foederum saepius invocabant consules, vocem Anni spernentis numina Iovis Romani auditam.
When the indignation of the senators followed the voice of the consul, it is recorded in memory that, against the frequent imploration of the gods, whom the consuls called upon rather often as witnesses of treaties, the voice of Annius was heard, scorning the divine power of Roman Jupiter.
§8.6.2certe, cum commotus ira se a vestibulo templi citato gradu proriperet, lapsus per gradus capite graviter offenso inpactus imo ita est saxo, ut sopiretur.
At all events, when, moved by anger, he was flinging himself away from the vestibule of the temple with a rapid step, he slipped on the steps and, his head being severely struck, hit the stone at the bottom so hard that he was stunned.
§8.6.3exanimatum auctores quoniam non omnes sunt, mihi quoque in incerto relictum sit, sicut inter foederum ruptorum testationem ingenti fragore caeli procellam effusam; nam et vera esse et apte ad repraesentandam iram deum ficta possunt.
Since not all authors agree that he was killed, let this also be left by me in uncertainty, just as the story that, amidst the calling to witness of the broken treaties, a tempest poured down from heaven with a great crash; for these things can both be true and have been aptly invented to represent the anger of the gods.
§8.6.4Torquatus missus ab senatu ad dimittendos legatos cum iacentem Annium vidisset, exclamat, ita ut populo patribusque audita vox pariter sit: “bene habet; di pium movere bellum.
Torquatus, having been sent by the senate to dismiss the ambassadors, when he saw Annius lying there, cried out, so that his voice was heard equally by both the people and the senators: "All is well; the gods have begun a righteous war.
§8.6.5est caeleste numen; es, magne Iuppiter; haud frustra te patrem deum hominumque hac sede sacravimus.
There is a heavenly power; you exist, great Jupiter; not in vain have we consecrated you as the father of gods and men in this temple.
§8.6.6quid cessatis, Quirites vosque patres conscripti, arma capere deis ducibus? sic stratas legiones Latinorum dabo, quem ad modum legatum iacentem videtis.
Why do you hesitate, Quirites, and you, conscript fathers, to take up arms with the gods as leaders?
” §8.6.7adsensu populi excepta vox consulis tantum ardoris animis fecit, ut legatos proficiscentes cura magistratuum magis, qui iussu consulis prosequebantur, quam ius gentium ab ira impetuque hominum tegeret.
I will give the legions of the Latins laid prostrate in such a way as you see their ambassador lying here." The consul's voice, received with the assent of the people, produced so much enthusiasm in their minds that, as the ambassadors were departing, the care of the magistrates, who were escorting them by command of the consul, protected them from the anger and attack of the men rather more than did the law of nations.
consensit et senatus bellum; §8.6.8consulesque duobus scriptis exercitibus per Marsos Paelignosque profecti adiuncto Samnitium exercitu ad Capuam, quo iam Latini sociique convenerant, castra locant.
The senate also consented to war; and the consuls, having set out with two enlisted armies through the territory of the Marsi and Paeligni, and having joined the army of the Samnites, pitched their camp near Capua, where the Latins and their allies had already assembled.
§8.6.9ibi in quiete utrique consuli eadem dicitur visa species viri maioris quam pro humano habitu augustiorisque, dicentis ex una acie imperatorem, ex altera exercitum deis Manibus matrique Terrae deberi.
There, during their rest, the same vision of a man, larger than human stature and more majestic, is said to have appeared to both consuls, saying that from one line of battle the commander, and from the other the army, was owed to the Manes and to Mother Earth.
§8.6.10utrius exercitus imperator legiones hostium superque eas se devovisset, eius populi partisque victoriam fore.
Whichever army's commander should devote the legions of the enemies and himself upon them, victory would belong to that people and party.
§8.6.11hos ubi nocturnos visus inter se consules contulerunt, placuit averruncandae deum irae victimas caedi, simul ut, si extis eadem, quae in somnio visa fuerant, portenderentur, alteruter consulum fata inpleret.
When the consuls compared these nightly visions with each other, it was decided that victims should be slain to avert the anger of the gods, and at the same time that, if the same things as had been seen in the dream should be portended by the entrails, one of the two consuls should fulfill his fate.
§8.6.12ubi responsa haruspicum insidenti iam animo tacitae religioni congruerunt, tum adhibitis legatis tribunisque et imperiis deum propalam expositis, ne mors voluntaria consulis exercitum in acie terreret, §8.6.13conparant inter se, ut, ab utra parte cedere Romanus exercitus coepisset, inde se consul devoveret pro populo Romano Quiritibusque.
When the responses of the haruspices agreed with the silent religious awe already residing in their minds, then, having summoned the ambassadors and tribunes, and having openly explained the commands of the gods, so that the voluntary death of a consul might not terrify the army in the line of battle, they agreed between themselves that, from whichever side the Roman army should begin to give way, from that side the consul should devote himself for the Roman people and the Quirites.
§8.6.14agitatum etiam in consilio est, ut, si quando umquam severo ullum imperio bellum administratum esset, tunc utique disciplina militaris ad priscos redigeretur mores.
It was also discussed in council that, if ever at any time any war had been conducted with severe command, then indeed military discipline should be brought back to ancient customs.
§8.6.15curam acuebat, quod adversus Latinos bellandum erat, lingua, moribus, armorum genere, institutis ante omnia militaribus congruentes: milites militibus, centurionibus centuriones, tribuni tribunis conpares collegaeque iisdem praesidiis, saepe iisdem manipulis permixti fuerant.
The fact that they had to fight against the Latins sharpened their anxiety, as they were similar in language, manners, type of arms, and above all in military institutions: soldiers had been mixed with soldiers, centurions with centurions, tribunes with tribunes, as companions and colleagues in the same garrisons, and often in the same maniples.
§8.6.16per haec ne quo errore milites caperentur, edicunt consules, ne quis extra ordinem in hostem pugnaret.
Because of these things, lest the soldiers should be seized by any error, the consuls published an edict that no one should fight against the enemy outside the ranks.