Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor), 8.1

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[2]

THE consuls were now Gaius Plautius (for the ¹ second time) and Lucius Aemilius Mamercus, when the men of Setium and Norba brought tidings to Rome that the Privernates were in revolt, with complaints of a defeat suffered at their hands.

it was also reported that a Volscian army, conducted by the Antiates, had encamped at Satricum. both wars were by lot assigned to Plautius.

[3] he marched first on Privernum and at once gave battle. without much ado he overcame the enemy, captured Privernum, and putting in it a strong garrison, restored it to the inhabitants, but deprived them of two —thirds of their territory.

[4] thence he led his victorious army towards Satricum, to oppose the Antiates. The battle there, which was desperately fought, with heavy losses on both sides, was interrupted by a storm before victory had inclined to either army.

[5] The Romans, not a whit discouraged by so indecisive a struggle, prepared to do battle on the morrow; but the Volsci, when they reckoned up the men they had lost in the fighting, were by no means so eager to incur the danger a second time, and in the night marched off like beaten men for Antium, with fear and trembling, abandoning ² their wounded and a part of their baggage.

[6] a great quantity of arms was found, not only amongst the slain but also in the enemy's camp. declaring³ that he gave these arms to Lua Mater, the consul proceeded to lay waste the enemy's country as far as the coast.

[7] The other consul, Aemilius, having entered the Sabellian ⁴ territory, nowhere encountered a Samnite camp or levies. as he was ravaging their fields with fire and sword, he was approached by Samnite envoys, who begged for peace.

[8] being referred by Aemilius to the senate, they obtained an audience, and giving over their air of arrogance, besought the Romans to grant them peace and the right to war against the Sidicini.

[9] These requests, they said, were the more justifiable, inasmuch as they had become friends of the Roman People when their state was flourishing and not, like the Campanians, in their adversity;

[10] moreover, it was against the Sidicini that they were drawing the sword, a people always their enemies and never friendly to the Romans, of whom they had never, like the Samnites, sought friendship in time of peace, nor assistance, like the Campanians, in time of war; neither were they under the protection of the Roman People, nor yet their subjects.

Ab urbe condita. Titus Livius (Livy). Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor). Medford, MA. .

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History of Rome (English) (Foster, Benjamin Oliver; Moore, Frank Gardener; Sage, Evan T.; Schlesinger, Alfred C., translators. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1919-1959. (Loeb Classical Library))

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Ab urbe condita Perseus (Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.) — 8.1 focus

[1] iam consules erant C. Plautius iterum, L. Aemilius Mamercinus, cum Setini Norbanique Romam nuntii defectionis Privernatium cum querimoniis acceptae cladis venerunt.

[2] Volscorum item exercitum duce Antiati populo consedisse ad Satricum adlatum est. utrumque bellum Plautio sorte evenit.

[3] prius ad Privernum profectus extemplo acie conflixit. haud magno certamine devicti hostes; oppidum captum redditumque Privernatibus praesidio valido inposito; agri partes duae ademptae.

[4] inde victor exercitus Satricum contra Antiatis ductus. ibi magna utrimque caede atrox proelium fuit; et cum tempestas eos neutro inclinata spe dimicantes diremisset, Romani, nihil eo certamine tam ambiguo fessi, in posterum diem proelium parant. Volscis recensentibus,

[5] quos viros in acie amisissent, haudquaquam idem animus ad iterandum periculum fuit; nocte pro victis Antium agmine trepido sauciis ac parte inpedimentorum relicta abierunt.

[6] armorum magna vis cum inter caesa hostium corpora tum in castris inventa est. ea Luae matri dare se consul dixit finesque hostium usque ad oram maritumam est depopulatus.

[7] alteri consuli Aemilio ingresso Sabellum agrum non castra Samnitium, non legiones usquam oppositae. ferro ignique vastantem agros legati Samnitium pacem orantes adeunt;

[8] a quo reiecti ad senatum potestate facta dicendi positis ferocibus animis pacem sibi ab Romanis bellique ius adversus Sidicinos petierunt: quae se eo iustius petere,

[9] quod et in amicitiam populi Romani secundis suis rebus, non adversis, ut Campani, venissent et adversus Sidicinos sumerent arma, suos semper hostes, populi Romani numquam amicos,

[10] qui nec, ut Samnites, in pace amicitiam nec, ut Campani, auxilium in bello petissent, nec in fide populi Romani nec in dicione essent.

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Conway, Robert Seymour; Walters, Charles Flamstead; Johnson, Stephen Keymer, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1914-1935. (Oxford Classical Texts)) — 8.1 focus

[1]

IAM consules erant C. Plautius iterum L. ¹² Aemilius Mamercus, cum Setini Norbanique Romam nuntii defectionis Privernatium cum querimoniis acceptae cladis venerunt.

[2] Volscorum item exercitum duce Antiati populo consedisse ad Satricum allatum est.

[3] utrumque bellum Plautio sorte evenit. prius ad Privernum profectus extemplo acie conflixit. haud magno certamine devicti hostes; oppidum captum redditumque Privernatibus praesidio valido imposito; agri partes duae ademptae.

[4] inde victor exercitus Satricum contra Antiates ductus. ibi magna utrimque caede atrox proelium fuit; et cum tempestas eos neutro inclinata spe dimicantes diremisset, Romani nihil eo certamine tam ambiguo fessi in posterum diem proelium parant.

[5] Volscis recensentibus quos viros in acie amisissent haudquaquam idem animus ad iterandum periculum fuit; nocte pro victis Antium agmine trepido sauciis ac parte ³ impedimentorum relicta abierunt.

[6] armorum magna vis cum inter caesa hostium corpora tum in castris inventa est. ea Luae Matri dare se consul dixit finesque hostium usque ad oram maritimam est depopulatus.

[7] alteri consuli Aemilio ingresso Sabellum agrum non castra Samnitium, non legiones usquam oppositae. ferro ignique vastantem agros legati Samnitium pacem orantes adeunt;

[8] a quo reiecti ad senatum, potestate facta dicendi, positis ferocibus animis pacem sibi ab Romanis bellique ius adversus Sidicinos petierunt,

[9] quae se eo iustius petere, quod et in amicitiam populi Romani secundis suis rebus, non adversis ut Campani, venissent, et adversus Sidicinos sumerent arma, suos semper hostes, populi Romani nunquam amicos,

[10] qui nec ut Samnites in pace amicitiam nec ut Campani auxilium in bello petissent, nec in fide populi Romani nec in dicione essent.

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Livy in Fourteen Volumes. Foster, Benjamin Oliver; Moore, Frank Gardener; Schlesinger, Alfred C., editors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1919-1959 (printing).) — 8.1 focus

[1]

IAM consules erant C. Plautius iterum L. ¹² Aemilius Mamercus, cum Setini Norbanique Romam nuntii defectionis Privernatium cum querimoniis acceptae cladis venerunt.

[2] Volscorum item exercitum duce Antiati populo consedisse ad Satricum allatum est.

[6] armorum magna vis cum inter caesa hostium corpora tum in castris inventa est. ea Luae Matri dare se consul dixit finesque hostium usque ad oram maritimam est depopulatus.

[7] alteri consuli Aemilio ingresso Sabellum agrum non castra Samnitium, non legiones usquam oppositae. ferro ignique vastantem agros legati Samnitium pacem orantes adeunt;

[8] a quo reiecti ad senatum, potestate facta dicendi, positis ferocibus animis pacem sibi ab Romanis bellique ius adversus Sidicinos petierunt,

[10] qui nec ut Samnites in pace amicitiam nec ut Campani auxilium in bello petissent, nec in fide populi Romani nec in dicione essent.

Translations (2)

History of Rome Perseus (Spillan, D.; Edmonds, Cyrus; McDevitte, William A., translators. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849-1868. (Bohn's Classical Library)) — 8.1 focus

[1]

THE consuls now were Caius Plautius a second time, and Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus; when the people of Setia and Norba came to Rome to announce the revolt of he Privernians, with complaints of the damages received by them.

[2] News were brought that the army of the Volscians, under the guidance of the people of Antium, had taken post at Satricum. Both wars fell by lot to Plautius.

[3] He, marching first to Privernum, immediately came to an engagement. The enemy were defeated after a slight resistance: the town was taken, and given back to the Privernians, a strong garrison being placed in it: two thirds of their land were taken front them.

[4] The victorious army was marched thence to Satricum against the Antians; there a desperate battle was fought with great slaughter on both sides; and when a storm separated the combatants, hope inclining to neither side, the Romans, nowise disheartened by this so indecisive an engagement, pre- pare for battle against the following day.

[5] The Volscians, reckoning up what men they had lost in battle, had by no means the same spirits to repeat the risk. They went off in the night to Antium as a vanquished army in the utmost confusion, leaving behind their wounded and a part of their baggage.

[6] A vast quantity of arms was found, both among the dead bodies of the enemy, and also in the camp. These, the consul declared, that he offered up to Mother Lua; and he laid waste the enemy's country as far as the sea-coast.

[7] The other consul, Aemilius, on entering the Sabellan territory, found neither a camp of the Samnites nor legions opposed to him. Whilst he laid waste their territories with fire and sword, the ambassadors of the Samnites came to him, suing for peace;

[8] by whom being referred to the senate, after leave to address them was granted, laying aside their ferocious spirits, they sued for peace for themselves from the Romans, and the right of waging war against the Sidicinians.

[9] Which requests, [they alleged,] that

they were the more justified in making, because they had both united in friendship with the Roman people, when their affairs were flourishing, not under circumstances of distress, as the Campanians had done, and they were taking up arms against the Sidicinians, ever their enemies, never the friends of the Roman people;

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who had neither, as the Samnites, sought their friendship in time of peace, nor, as the Campanians, their assistance in time of war, and were neither in alliance with, nor under subjection to the Roman people.

History of Rome Perseus (Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.) — 8.1 focus

[1] ¹ When messengers from Setia and Norba arrived in Rome with complaints of a defeat they had suffered at the hands of the revolted Privernates, the consulship was held by C.

[2] Plautius (for the second time) and L. Aemilius Mamercus. News was also brought that an army of Volscians led by the people of Antium

[3] had concentrated at Satricum. Both wars fell to Plautius. He marched first to Privernum and at once engaged the enemy who were defeated without much trouble. The town was captured and then given back to the Privernates after a strong garrison had been

[4] placed in it; two-thirds of their territory were confiscated. Then the victorious army was led against the Antiates at Satricum. There a battle was fought with terrible bloodshed on both sides, and whilst the result was still uncertain night separated the combatants. The Romans were in no way discouraged by the indecisiveness of

[5] the conflict, and prepared for battle the next day. The Volscians, after reckoning up their losses in the battles, were by no means eager to run any further risk; looking upon themselves as defeated, they made a hurried departure to Antium in the night, leaving

[6] their wounded and a part of their baggage behind. An immense quantity of arms was found both amongst the dead on the field and in the camp. These the consul said he was offering to Lua Mater. He then ravaged the enemy's territories down to the sea-board.

[7] When the other consul entered the Sabellian territory, he found that the Samnites had no camp, no legions confronting him. Whilst he was laying waste their fields with fire and sword, envoys came to him to ask for peace and he referred them to the senate.

[8] After permission had been given them to state their case, they laid aside their truculent manner and requested that peace might be granted them and

[9] also the right of making war against the Sidicines. They considered that they were the more justified in making this request because they had formed friendly relations with Rome when their affairs were prosperous, not as in the case of the Campanians when they were in adversity, and they were taking up arms against the Sidicines, who had always been their enemies and never

[10] friends of Rome, who had not, like the Samnites, sought its friendship in a time of peace, nor like the Campanians, asked for its help in a time of war, and who were not under the protection and suzerainty of Rome.

Notes on the current edition

Ab Urbe Condita With An English Translation, books 1-10, 21-45, with periochae 11-20

1. B.C. 341

2. B.C. 341

3. i. C. as he burnt them; captured arms were sometimes burnt as an offering to Vulcan (I. xxxvii. 5), or to Jupiter Victor (x. xxix. 18). Lua Mater, wife of Saturn, was a goddess of atonement; at XLV. xxxiii. 1 she is associated in this rite with Mars and Minerva.

4. sabellus ager usually includes the territories in Central Italy inhabited by the Samnites, Sabines, Picentines, Vestini, Marsi, Paeligni, and Marrucini. Livy uses it here in a restricted sense of the country of the Samnites.

Titus Livius (Livy) Ab urbe condita 8.1

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