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γνωρίσαντες ἐκ τῶν ὅπλων καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν σημείων ἐξέστησαν τῶν λογισμῶν καὶ τὰ ὅπλα ῥίψαντες ἐπειρῶντο σώζειν ἑαυτούς. ἦν δ᾽ ἄπορος ἡ σωτηρία τοῖς πολλοῖς περιεχομένοις κύκλῳ ὑπ᾽ ἐχθρῶν, καὶ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἡ ἵππος ἐπικειμένη πανταχόθεν αὐτοὺς ἀπέκλειεν: ὥστ᾽ ὀλίγοι μέν τινες ἔφθησαν τὰ δεινὰ ὑπεκδύντες, οἱ δὲ πλείους κατεκόπησαν ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων ἢ παρέδοσαν ἑαυτούς. ἀντέσχον δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ οἱ καταλειφθέντες ἐπὶ τοῦ χάρακος, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἔρυμα ἑάλω τῇ πρώτῃ ἐφόδῳ: ἔνθα σὺν τοῖς ἰδίοις τῶν Σαβίνων χρήμασι καὶ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἅπαντα σὺν πολλοῖς αἰχμαλώτοις ἔτι ἀκέραια ὄντα τοῖς ἀπολωλεκόσιν ἀνεσώθη.
ὡς δ᾽ ἡ πρώτη πεῖρα τῷ Ταρκυνίῳ κατὰ νοῦν ἐχώρησεν, ἀναλαβὼν τὴν δύναμιν ἧκεν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐν Φιδήνῃ ἐστρατοπεδευκότας τῶν Σαβίνων, οἷς οὔπω δῆλος ἦν ὁ τῶν σφετέρων ὄλεθρος. ἔτυχον δὲ κἀκεῖνοι προεξεληλυθότες ἐκ τοῦ χάρακος καὶ ἤδη ὄντες ἐν ὁδῷ: ὡς δὴ πλησίον ἐγένοντο καὶ εἶδον ἐπὶ δορατίων
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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