§9.41.1Fabio ob egregie perdomitam Etruriam continuatur consulatus, Decius collega datur.
To Fabius, on account of his excellently subdued Etruria, the consulship was continued, and Decius was given as his colleague.
Ualerius praetor quartum creatus.
Valerius was elected praetor for the fourth time.
§9.41.2consules partiti provincias: Etruria Decio, Samnium Fabio evenit.
The consuls divided the provinces: Etruria fell to Decius, Samnium to Fabius.
Is profectus ad Nuceriam Alfaternam, §9.41.3cum pacem petentes, quod uti ea, cum daretur, noluissent, aspernatus esset, oppugnando ad deditionem subegit.
He, having set out for Nuceria Alfaterna, when they sought peace, since they had been unwilling to use it when it was offered, having rejected them, he subdued them to surrender by siege.
§9.41.4cum Samnitibus acie dimicatum; haud magno certamine hostes victi; neque eius pugnae memoria tradita foret, ni Marsi eo primum proelio cum Romanis bellassent.
A battle was fought with the Samnites in the field; the enemy were defeated with no great struggle; nor would the memory of that battle have been handed down, had not the Marsi in that battle first fought with the Romans.
secuti Marsorum defectionem Paeligni eandem fortunam habuerunt.
The Paeligni, having followed the defection of the Marsi, had the same fortune.
Decio quoque, §9.41.5alteri consuli, secunda belli fortuna erat.
To Decius also, the other consul, there was favorable fortune of war.
Tarquiniensem metu subegerat frumentum exercitui praebere atque indutias in quadraginta annos petere.
He had compelled the Tarquinienses by fear to supply grain for the army and to seek a truce for forty years.
§9.41.6Volsiniensium castella aliquot vi cepit; quaedam ex iis diruit, ne receptaculo hostibus essent; circumferendoque passim bello tantum terrorem sui fecit, ut nomen omne Etruscum foedus ab consule peteret.
He took several fortresses of the Volsinienses by force; some of them he demolished, lest they should be a refuge for the enemy; and by carrying war here and there, he created such a terror of himself that the whole Etruscan name sought a treaty from the consul.
ac de eo quidem nihil impetratum; §9.41.7indutiae annuae datae.
However, nothing was obtained concerning that; a yearly truce was granted.
stipendium exercitu Romano ab hoste in eum annum pensum et binae tunicae in militem exactae; ea merces indutiarum fuit.
Pay for the Roman army for that year was paid by the enemy, and two tunics per soldier were demanded; this was the price of the truce.
§9.41.8tranquillas res iam in Etruscis turbavit repentina defectio, Umbrorum, gentis integrae a cladibus belli, nisi quod transitum exercitus ager senserat.
A sudden defection of the Umbrians, a nation untouched by the disasters of war, except that their territory had felt the passage of the army, now disturbed the tranquil state of affairs among the Etruscans.
§9.41.9ii concitata omni iuventute sua et magna parte Etruscorum ad rebellionem conpulsa tantum exercitum fecerant, ut relicto post se in Etruria Decio ad oppugnandam inde Romam ituros, magnifice de se ac contemptim de Romanis loquentes, iactarent.
These, having excited all their youth and compelled a great part of the Etruscans to rebellion, had made so great an army that, leaving Decius behind them in Etruria, they boasted, speaking magnificently of themselves and contemptuously of the Romans, that they would go from there to besiege Rome.
§9.41.10quod inceptum eorum ubi ad Decium consulem perlatum est, ad urbem ex Etruria magnis itineribus pergit et in agro Pupiniensi ad famam intentus hostium consedit.
When this attempt of theirs was reported to the consul Decius, he proceeded from Etruria to the city by forced marches and encamped in the Pupinian territory, intent on news of the enemy.
nec Romae spernebatur Umbrorum bellum, §9.41.11et ipsae minae metum fecerant expertis Gallica clade, quam intutam urbem incolerent.
Nor was the war with the Umbrians disregarded at Rome, and the threats themselves had caused fear to those who had experienced the Gallic disaster, knowing how unprotected a city they inhabited.
§9.41.12itaque legati ad Fabium consulem missi sunt, ut, si quid laxamenti a bello Samnitium esset, in Umbriam propere exercitum duceret.
Therefore, envoys were sent to the consul Fabius, that, if there should be any relaxation from the war of the Samnites, he should hastily lead his army into Umbria.
dicto paruit consul magnisque itineribus ad Mevaniam, §9.41.13ubi tum copiae Umbrorum erant, perrexit.
The consul obeyed the order and by forced marches to Mevania, where the forces of the Umbrians then were, proceeded.
§9.41.14repens adventus consulis, quem procul Umbria in Samnio bello alio occupatum crediderant, ita exterruit Vmbros, ut alii recedendum ad urbes munitas, quidam omittendum bellum censerent; §9.41.15plaga una — Materinam ipsi appellant — non continuit modo ceteros in armis, sed confestim ad certamen egit.
The sudden arrival of the consul, whom they had believed to be occupied in another war in Samnium, far from Umbria, so terrified the Umbrians that some thought they should retreat to fortified cities, and some that the war should be abandoned; one district—they themselves call it Materina—not only kept the rest in arms, but immediately drove them to battle.
castra vallantem Fabium adorti sunt.
They attacked Fabius as he was fortifying his camp.
quos ubi effusos ruere in munimenta consul vidit, §9.41.16revocatos milites ab opere, prout loci natura tempusque patiebatur, ita instruxit; cohortatusque praedicatione vera qua in Tuscis, qua in Samnio partorum decorum exiguam appendicem Etrusci belli conficere iubet et vocis inpiae poenas expetere, qua se urbem Romanam oppugnaturos minati sint.
When the consul saw them rushing in disorder against the ramparts, having recalled the soldiers from their work, he drew them up as the nature of the place and time permitted; and having encouraged them by a true proclamation of the glories won partly among the Etruscans, partly in Samnium, he ordered them to finish this small appendix of the Etruscan war and to exact punishment for the impious voice with which they had threatened that they would besiege the Roman city.
§9.41.17haec tanta sunt alacritate militum audita, ut clamor sua sponte ortus loquentem interpellaverit ducem.
These words were heard with such great alacrity of the soldiers, that a shout arising of its own accord interrupted the general as he was speaking.
ante imperium, ante concentum tubarum ac cornuum cursu effuso in hostem feruntur.
Before the command, before the concert of trumpets and horns, they were carried against the enemy with headlong speed.
§9.41.18non tamquam in viros aut armatos incurrunt; mirabilia dictu, signa primo eripi coepta signiferis, deinde ipsi signiferi trahi ad consulem, armatique milites ex acie in aciem transferri, et, sicubi est certamen, scutis magis quam gladiis geritur res; umbonibus incussaque ala sternuntur hostes.
They did not charge as if against men or armed enemies; wonderful to relate, first the standards began to be snatched from the standard-bearers, then the standard-bearers themselves were dragged to the consul, and armed soldiers were transferred from battle line to battle line, and wherever there was a struggle, the matter was carried on with shields rather than swords; the enemy were laid low by the bosses of the shields and the thrust of shoulders.
§9.41.19plus capitur hominum quam caeditur, atque una vox ponere arma iubentium per totam fertur aciem.
More men were captured than slain, and a single voice of those ordering to lay down arms was carried through the whole battle line.
§9.41.20itaque inter ipsum certamen facta deditio est a primis auctoribus belli.
Therefore, during the battle itself, surrender was made by the primary authors of the war.
postero insequentibusque diebus et ceteri Umbrorum populi deduntur; Ocriculani sponsione in amicitiam accepti.
On the next and following days, the rest of the peoples of the Umbrians were surrendered; the Ocriculani were received into friendship upon a treaty.