§9.22.1anno circumacto bellum deinceps ab dictatore Q. Fabio gestum est;
When the year had come round, the war was henceforth conducted by the dictator Q.
consules novi, sicut superiores, Romae manserunt; Fabius ad accipiendum ah Aemilio exercitum ad Saticulam cum supplemento venit.
Fabius; the new consuls, like their predecessors, remained at Rome; Fabius came with a reinforcement to Saticula to receive the army from Aemilius.
§9.22.2neque enim Samnites ad Plisticam manserant, sed, accitis ab domo novis militibus multitudine freti, castra eodem, quo antea, loco posuerant lacessentesque proelio Romanos avertere ab obsidione conabantur.
For neither had the Samnites remained at Plistica, but, having summoned new soldiers from home and relying on their numbers, they had pitched their camp in the same place as before, and by provoking the Romans to battle, they were trying to draw them away from the siege.
§9.22.3eo intentius dictator in moenia hostium versus id bellum tantum ducere, quo urbem oppugnabat; securior ab Samnitibus agere, stationibus modo oppositis, ne qua in castra vis fieret.
All the more intently did the dictator, turning toward the enemy's walls, carry on only that war with which he was besieging the city; he acted with more security regarding the Samnites, merely opposing outposts so that no force might be brought against the camp.
§9.22.4eo ferocius adequitare Samnites vallo neque otium pati.
All the more fiercely did the Samnites ride up to the rampart and allow no rest.
et cum iam prope in portis castrorum esset hostis, nihil consulto dictatore magister equitum Q. Aulius Cerretanus magno tumultu cum omnibus turmis equitum evectus summovit hostem.
And when the enemy was now almost at the gates of the camp, the master of the horse Q. Aulius Cerretanus, without consulting the dictator at all, rode out with all the squadrons of horse in a great tumult and drove back the enemy.
§9.22.5tum in minime pertinaci genere pugnae sic fortuna exercuit opes, ut insignes utrimque clades et clara ipsorum ducum ederet funera.
Then, in a kind of fight that was by no means persistent, fortune so exercised her power that she produced notable disasters on both sides and the famous deaths of the leaders themselves.
§9.22.6prior Samnitium imperator, aegre patiens, quo tam ferociter adequitasset, inde se fundi fugarique, orando hortandoque equites proelium iteravit; §9.22.7in quem insignem inter suos cientem pugnam magister equitum Romanus infesta cuspide ita permisit equum, ut uno ictu exanimem ex equo praecipitaret.
First, the Samnite commander, taking it ill that he was routed and put to flight from the place where he had ridden up so fiercely, renewed the battle by entreating and encouraging his horsemen; against him, as he was stirring up the fight, conspicuous among his own men, the Roman master of the horse, with spear couched, so spurred his horse that with a single blow he threw him down lifeless from his horse.
nec, ut fit, ad ducis casum perculsa magis quam inritata est multitudo; §9.22.8omnes, qui circa erant, in Aulium, temere invectum per hostium turmas, tela coniecerunt; §9.22.9fratri praecipuum decus ulti Samnitium imperatoris di dederunt.
Nor, as usually happens, was the multitude more dismayed than provoked at the fall of their leader; all who were around threw their weapons at Aulius, who had rashly charged through the enemy's squadrons; the gods gave to his brother the chief honor of avenging the slain Samnite commander.
is victorem detractum ex equo magistrum equitum plenus maeroris atque irae trucidavit, nec multum afuit, quin corpore etiam, quia inter hostiles ceciderat turmas, Samnites potirentur.
He, full of grief and rage, slaughtered the victorious master of the horse who had been dragged from his horse, and the Samnites were not far from getting possession of his body also, because he had fallen among the enemy's squadrons.
§9.22.10sed extemplo ad pedes descensum ab Romanis est coactique idem Samnites facere.
But immediately the Romans dismounted, and the Samnites were forced to do the same.
et repentina acies circa corpora ducum pedestre proelium iniit, quo haud dubie superat Romanus; recuperatumque Auli corpus mixta cum dolore laetitia victores in castra referunt.
And a sudden line of battle engaged in a pedestrian fight around the bodies of the leaders, in which the Roman was undoubtedly superior; and the victors carried back the recovered body of Aulius to the camp with joy mixed with grief.
Samnites duce amisso §9.22.11et per equestre certamen temptatis viribus omissa Saticula, quam nequiquam defendi rebantur, ad Plisticae obsidionem redeunt, intraque paucos dies Saticula Romanus per deditionem, Plistica per vim Samnis potitur.
The Samnites, having lost their leader and having tried their strength through the cavalry combat, abandoned Saticula, which they thought was being defended in vain, and returned to the siege of Plistica; and within a few days the Roman got possession of Saticula by surrender, and the Samnite of Plistica by force.