Liv. 2.17.1Secūtī cōnsulēs Opiter Verginius Sp. Cassius Pōmētiam prīmō vī, deinde vīneīs aliīsque operibus oppugnārunt.The consuls who followed, Opiter Verginius and Spurius Cassius, attacked Pometia first by assault, then with mantlets and other siege-works. Liv. 2.17.2In quōs Auruncī magis iam inexpiābilī odiō quam spē aliquā aut occāsiōne coortī cum plūrēs ignī quam ferrō armātī excucurrissent, caede incendiōque cūncta conplent.Rising against them, now more from implacable hatred than from any hope or opportunity, the Aurunci sallied out, more of them armed with fire than with steel, and fill everything with slaughter and burning. Liv. 2.17.3Vīneīs incēnsīs, multīs hostium vulnerātīs et occīsīs cōnsulum quoque alterum — sed utrum , auctōrēs nōn adiciunt — gravī vulnere ex equō dēiectum prope interfēcērunt.Having burned the mantlets and wounded and killed many of the enemy, they also struck one of the consuls — but which, the authorities do not add — from his horse with a severe wound and almost killed him. Liv. 2.17.4Rōmam inde male gestā rē reditum.After this failure they returned from there to Rome. Liv. 2.17.4Inter multōs sauciōs cōnsul spē incertā vītae relātus.Among many wounded the consul was carried back, with little hope of his life.
Liv. 2.17.4Interiectō deinde haud magnō spatiō, quod vulneribus cūrandīs supplendōque exercituī satis esset, cum īrā maiōre tum vīribus etiam auctīs Pōmētiae arma inlāta.Then, after no great interval, enough for tending the wounds and filling up the army, war was carried to Pometia with greater anger and with increased strength as well. Liv. 2.17.5Et cum vīneīs refectīs aliāque mōle bellī iam in eō esset, ut in mūrōs ēvāderet mīles, dēditiō est facta.And when the mantlets had been repaired and, with the rest of the apparatus of war, things had come to the point where the soldiers were about to climb on to the walls, a surrender was made. Liv. 2.17.6Cēterum nihilō minus foeda dēditā urbe, quam sī capta foret, Auruncī passī: prīncipēs secūrī percussī, sub corōnā vēniērunt colōnī aliī;Yet the Aurunci suffered no less hideous treatment when the city was surrendered than if it had been taken by storm: the leading men were beheaded with the axe, the other colonists were sold as slaves; Liv. 2.17.7oppidum dīrutum, ager vēniit.the town was demolished and the land sold.
Liv. 2.17.7Cōnsulēs magis ob īrās graviter ultās quam ob magnitūdinem perfectī bellī triumphārunt.The consuls celebrated a triumph more for the severity with which they had avenged their anger than for the greatness of the war they had finished.