Liv. 2.16.1Cōnsulēs M. Valerius P. Postumius.The consuls were Marcus Valerius and Publius Postumius. Liv. 2.16.1Eō annō bene pugnātum cum Sabīnīs;In that year there was a successful campaign against the Sabines; Liv. 2.16.2cōnsulēs triumphārunt.the consuls celebrated a triumph. Liv. 2.16.2Maiōre inde mōle Sabīnī bellum parābant.Then the Sabines began preparing war on a larger scale. Liv. 2.16.2Adversus eōs et nē quid simul ab Tusculō, unde, etsī nōn apertum, suspectum tamen bellum erat, repentīnī perīculī orīrētur, P. Valerius quārtum T. Lucrētius iterum cōnsulēs factī.To meet them, and so that no sudden danger might at the same time arise from Tusculum, from where war, though not open, was nevertheless suspected, Publius Valerius for the fourth time and Titus Lucretius for the second were made consuls. Liv. 2.16.3Sēditiō inter bellī pācisque auctōrēs orta in Sabīnīs aliquantum inde vīrium trānstulit ad Rōmānōs.A quarrel that arose among the Sabines between the advocates of war and of peace transferred a good deal of strength from them to the Romans. Liv. 2.16.3Namque Attius Clausus, cui posteā Appiō Claudiō fuit Rōmae nōmen, cum pācis ipse auctor ā turbātōribus bellī premerētur nec pār factiōnī esset, ab Inregillō, magnā clientium comitātus manū, Rōmam trānsfūgit.For Attius Clausus, who was afterwards called Appius Claudius at Rome, being himself an advocate of peace, when he was hard pressed by those stirring up war and was no match for their faction, fled over from Inregillum to Rome, attended by a great band of clients.
Liv. 2.16.4Hīs cīvitās data agerque trāns Aniēnem: vetus Claudia tribus additīs posteā novīs tribūlibus, quī ex eō venīrent agrō, appellāta.They were given citizenship and land across the Anio: it was called the old Claudian tribe, when new tribesmen who came from that territory had later been added. Liv. 2.16.5Appius inter patrēs lēctus haud ita multō post in prīncipum dignātiōnem pervēnit.Appius, chosen among the senators, not very long afterwards rose to the standing of the leading men. Liv. 2.16.6Cōnsulēs īnfestō exercitū in agrum Sabīnum profectī cum ita vāstātiōne, Dein proeliō adflīxissent opēs hostium, ut diū nihil inde rebelliōnis timērī posset.The consuls set out with an army in hostile array into Sabine territory, and so crushed the enemy's strength, first by laying waste their land and then in battle, that for a long time no renewal of war could be feared from that quarter. Liv. 2.16.6Triumphantēs Rōmam rediērunt.They returned to Rome in triumph. Liv. 2.16.7P. Valerius, omnium cōnsēnsū prīnceps bellī pācisque artibus, annō post Agrippā Menēniō P. Postumiō cōnsulibus moritur, glōriā ingentī, cōpiīs familiāribus adeō exiguīs, ut fūnerī sūmptus dēesset: dē pūblicō est datus.Publius Valerius, by universal consent foremost in the arts of war and of peace, died the following year, in the consulship of Agrippa Menenius and Publius Postumius, with immense glory but with private means so slender that money for his funeral was lacking: it was provided from the public treasury.
Liv. 2.16.8Lūxēre mātronae ut Brūtum.The matrons mourned him as they had mourned Brutus. Liv. 2.16.8Eōdem annō duae colōniae Latīnae, Pōmētia et Cora, ad Auruncōs dēficiunt.In the same year two Latin colonies, Pometia and Cora, went over to the Aurunci. Liv. 2.16.8Cum Auruncīs bellum initum, fūsōque ingentī exercitū, quī sē ingredientibus fīnēs cōnsulibus ferōciter obtulerat, omne Auruncum bellum Pōmētiam compulsum est.War was begun with the Aurunci, and when a huge army, which had boldly confronted the consuls as they entered their territory, had been routed, the whole Auruncan war was driven into Pometia. Liv. 2.16.9Nec magis post proelium quam in proeliō ā caedibus temperātum est: et caesī aliquantō plūrēs erant quam captī, et captōs passim trucīdāvērunt;Nor was there any more restraint from slaughter after the battle than in it: those killed were a good many more than those captured, and the captives they butchered everywhere; Liv. 2.16.9nē ab obsidibus quidem, quī trecentī acceptī numerō erant, īra bellī abstinuit.not even from the hostages, three hundred of whom had been received, did the anger of war hold back. Liv. 2.16.9Et hōc annō Rōmae triumphātum.This year too there was a triumph at Rome.