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), 8.11

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[2] These particulars, even though the memory of every religious and secular usage has been wiped out by men's preference of the new and outlandish to the ancient and homebred, I have thought it not foreign to my purpose to repeat, and in the very words in which they were formulated and handed down.

i find in certain writers that it was not until the battle was over that the Samnites, who had been waiting

[3] for the outcome of the engagement, came ¹ up to support the Romans.

[4] The Latins, too, were already defeated when the Lavinians, who were consuming time in deliberation, began to march to their assistance; and receiving word of the disaster to the Latins just as their foremost ensigns and a portion of their column had passed out through the gates, they faced about and returned into the city, their praetor, Milionius, remarking, so it is said, that they would have to pay a large price to the Romans for that little march.

[5] such of the Latins as survived the battle, after being dispersed over many roads, were reunited, and took refuge in the town of Vescia.

[6] in the councils which they held there, Numisius, their commander —inchief, asserted that the fortune of war had in truth been common, ² overwhelming both armies with equal carnage.

[7] The Romans, he said, were victorious only in name, in all else they too were as though they had been defeated; both consular headquarters were polluted, the one by the blood of a son, the other by the death of the devoted consul; their whole army had been cut to pieces, their first and second lines had been massacred, and the slaughter had extended from the troops before the standards to those behind them; finally the veterans had restored the day;

[8] but though the Latin forces had been equally cut up, yet, for recruiting, either Latium or the Volscian country was nearer than Rome;

[9] if therefore it seemed good to then, he would speedily summon the fighting men front the Latin and Volscian tribes, and would return with an embattled host to Capua, where the unexpectedness of his arrival would strike dismay into the Romans, who just then were looking for anything rather than ³ a battle.

[10] misleading letters were sent out to all parts of Latium and the country of the Volsci, and since those who received them had not been present at the battle, gained ready credence; and an army of militia was levied in hot haste and brought together from every quarter.

[11] this force Torquatus the consul met near Trifanum, a place situated between Sinuessa and Minturnae. both armies, without waiting to choose sites for their camps, piled their baggage and fell to fighting, and the war was ended then and there;

[12] for the enemy's strength was brought so low that, when the consul led his victorious army to pillage their fields, the Latins all surrendered, and the Campanians followed their example. Latium and Capua were deprived of territory.

[13] The Latin territory, with the addition of that belonging to Privernum, together with the Falernian —which had belonged to the Campanian people —as far as the river Volturnus, was parcelled out amongst the Roman plebs.

[14] The assignment was two iugera in Latium supplemented with three —fourths of a iugerum from the land of Privernum, or three iugera in the Falernian district, —a fourth of a iugerum being added to compensate for its remoteness. ⁴

[15] The Laurentes and the Campanian knights were exempted from the punishment inflicted on the Latins, because they had not revolted; it was ordered that the treaty with the Laurentes should be renewed, and it has been renewed every year from that time, on the tenth day after the Latin Festival.

[16] The Campanian knights received Roman citizenship, and to commemorate the occasion a bronze tablet was fastened up in the temple of Castor at Rome. ⁵ moreover , the ⁶ Campanian people were commanded to pay them each a yearly stipend —there were sixteen hundred of them —amounting to four hundred and fifty denarii.⁷

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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Ab urbe condita Perseus (Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.) — 8.11 focus

[1] haec, etsi omnis divini humanique moris memoria abolevit nova peregrinaque omnia priscis ac patriis praeferendo, haud ab re duxi verbis quoque ipsis, ut tradita nuncupataque sunt, referre.

[2] Romanis post proelium demum factum Samnites venisse subsidio, expectato eventu pugnae, apud quosdam auctores invenio.

[3] Latinis quoque ab Lavinio auxilium, dum deliberando terunt tempus, victis demum ferri coeptum;

[4] et, cum iam portis prima signa et pars agminis esset egressa, nuntio adlato de clade Latinorum cum conversis signis retro in urbem rediretur, praetorem eorum nomine Milionium dixisse ferunt pro paulula via magnam mercedem esse Romanis solvendam.

[5] qui Latinorum pugnae superfuerant multis itineribus dissipati cum se in unum conglobassent, Vescia urbs eis receptaculum fuit.

[6] ibi in conciliis Numisius, imperator eorum, ad renovandum bellum principes excitabat adfirmando communem vere Martem belli utramque aciem pari caede prostravisse victoriaeque nomen tantur tantum penes Romanos esse, ceteram pro victis fortunam et illos gerere;

[7] funesta duo consulum praetoria, alterum parricidio filii, alterum consulis devoti caede; trucidatum exercitum omnem, caesos hastatos principesque, stragem et ante signa et post signa factam, triarios postremo rem restituisse;

[8] Latinorum etsi pariter accisae copiae sint, tamen supplemento vel Latium propius esse vel Volscos quam Romam;

[9] itaque, si videatur eis, se, ex Latinis et ex Volscis populis iuventute propere excita, rediturum infesto exercitu Capuam esse Romanosque nihil turn tum minus quam proelium expectantes necopinato adventu perculsurum.

[10] fallacibus litteris circa Latium nomenque Volscum missis, quia, qui non interfuerant pugnae, ad credendum temere faciliores erant, tumultuarius undique exercitus raptim conscriptus convenit.

[11] huic agmini Torquatus consul ad Trifanum — inter Sinuessam Minturnasque is locus est — occurrit. priusquam castris locus caperetur, sarcinis utrimque in acervum coniectis pugnatum debellatumque est;

[12] adeo enim accisae res sunt, ut consuli victorem exercitum ad depopulandos agros eorum ducenti dederent se omnes Latini deditionemque ear eam Campani sequerentur. Latium Capuaque agro multati.

[13] Latinus ager, Privernati addito agro, et Falernus, qui populi Campani fuerat, usque ad Vulturnum flumen plebi Romanae dividitur.

[14] bina in Latino iugera, ita ut dodrante ex Privernati conplerent, data, terna in Falerno quadrantibus etiam pro longinquitate adiectis.

[15] extra poenam fuere Latinorum Laurentes Campanorumque equites, quia non desciverant. cum Laurentibus renovari foedus iussum, renovaturque ex eo quotannis post diem decimum Latinarum.

[16] equitibus Campanis civitas Romana data, monumentoque ut esset, aeneam tabulam in aede Castoris Romae fixerunt. vectigal quoque eis Campanus populus iussus pendere in singulos quotannis — fuere autem mille et sescenti — denarios nummos quadringenos quinquagenos.

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Conway, Robert Seymour; Walters, Charles Flamstead; Johnson, Stephen Keymer, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1914-1935. (Oxford Classical Texts)) — 8.11 focus

[1]

haec , etsi omnis divini humanique moris memoria abolevit nova peregrinaque omnia priscis ac patriis praeferendo, haud ab re duxi verbis quoque ipsis, ut tradita nuncupataque sunt, referre.

[2] Romanis post proelium demum factum Samnites venisse subsidio, exspectato eventu pugnae, apud ¹ quosdam auctores invenio.

[3] Latinis quoque ab Lavinio auxilium, dum deliberando terunt tempus, victis demum ferri coeptum;

[4] et, cum iam portis prima signa et pars agminis esset egressa, nuntio allato de clade Latinorum cum conversis signis retro in urbem rediretur, praetorem eorum nomine Milionium dixisse ferunt pro paulula via magnam mercedem esse Romanis solvendam.

[5] qui Latinorum pugnae superfuerant multis itineribus dissipati cum se in unum conglobassent, Vescia urbs eis receptaculum fuit. ibi in conciliis

[6] Numisius imperator eorum adfirmabat ² communem vere Martem belli utramque aciem pari caede prostravisse victoriaeque nomen tantum penes Romanos esse, ceteram pro victis fortunam et illos gerere; funesta duo consulum praetoria,

[7] alterum parricidio filii, alterum consulis devoti caede; trucidatum exercitum omnem, caesos hastatos principesque, stragem et ante signa et post signa factam, triarios postremo rem restituisse;

[8] Latinorum etsi pariter accisae copiae sint, tamen supplemento vel Latium propius esse vel Volscos quam Romam;

[9] itaque, si videatur eis, se ex Latinis et ex Volscis populis iuventute propere excita, rediturum infesto exercitu Capuam esse Romanosque nihil tum minus quam proelium exspectantes necopinato adventu ³ perculsurum.

[10] fallacibus litteris circa Latium nomenque Volscum missis, quia qui non interfuerant pugnae ad credendum temere faciliores erant, tumultuarius undique exercitus raptim conscriptus convenit.

huic agmini Torquatus consul ad Trifanum— inter Sinuessam Minturnasque is locus est—occurrit. priusquam castris locus caperetur, sarcinis utrimque in acervum coniectis pugnatum debellatumque est;

[11] adeo enim accisae res sunt ut consuli victorem exercitum ad depopulandos agros eorum ducenti dederent se omnes Latini deditionemque eam Campani sequerentur.

[12] Latium Capuaque agro multati. Latinus ager Privernati addito agro et Falernus, qui populi 'Campani fuerat, usque ad Volturnum flumen plebi Romanae dividitur.

[13] bina in Latino iugera, ita ut dodrante ⁴ ex Privernati complerent, data, terna in Falerno quadrantibus etiam pro longinquitate adiectis.

[14] extra poenam fuere Latinorum Laurentes Campanorumque equites, quia non desciverant. cum Laurentibus renovari foedus iussum, renovaturque ex eo quotannis post diem decimum Latinarum.

[15] equitibus Campanis civitas Romana data, ⁵ monumentoque ut esset, aeneam tabulam in ⁶ aede Castoris Romae fixerunt. vectigal quoque ⁷ eis Campanus populus iussus pendere in singulos quotannis—fuere autem mille et sexcenti—denarios nummos quadringenos quinquagenos.

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).) — 8.11 focus