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25. proxima inde nocte Volsci, discordia1 Romana freti, si qua nocturna transitio proditiove fieri
posset,2 temptant castra. sensere vigiles, excitatus exercitus, signo dato concursum est ad arma;
[2]
ita frustra id inceptum Volscis fuit; reliquum noctis
utrimque quieti datum. postero die prima luce
Volsci fossis repletis vallum invadunt.
[3]
iamque ab
omni parte munimenta vellebantur, cum consul,
quamquam cuncti undique, et nexi ante omnes, ut
signum daret clamabant, experiendi animos militum
causa parumper moratus, postquam satis apparebat
ingens ardor, dato tandem ad erumpendum signo
militem avidum certaminis emittit.
[4]
primo statim
incursu pulsi hostes; fugientibus, quoad insequi
pedes potuit, terga caesa; eques usque ad castra
pavidos egit. mox ipsa castra legionibus circumdatis, cum Volscos inde etiam pavor expulisset, capta
direptaque.
[5]
postero die ad Suessam Pometiam, quo
confugerant hostes, legionibus ductis, intra paucos
dies oppidum capitur, captum praedae datum. inde
paulum recreatus egens miles.
[6]
Consul cum maxima
gloria sua victorem exercitum Romam reducit. decedentem Romam Ecetranorum3 Volscorum legati,
[p. 300]
rebus suis timentes post Pometiam captam, adeunt.4 his ex senatus consulto data pax, ager ademptus.
Livy. Books I and II With An English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.
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