Liv. 2.26.1Cōnfestim et Sabīnī Rōmānōs territāvēre;Immediately the Sabines too gave the Romans a fright; Liv. 2.26.1tumultus enim fuit vērius quam bellum.for it was more truly an alarm than a war. Liv. 2.26.1Nocte in urbem nūntiātur est exercitum Sabīnum praedābundum ad Aniēnem amnem pervēnisse;News was brought to the city at night that a Sabine army, plundering as it went, had reached the river Anio; Liv. 2.26.1ibi passim dīripī atque incendī vīllās.there farmhouses were being plundered and burned far and wide. Liv. 2.26.2Missus extemplō eō cum omnibus cōpiīs equitum A. Postumius, quī dictātor bellō Latīnō fuerat;Aulus Postumius, who had been dictator in the Latin war, was at once sent there with the whole of the cavalry; Liv. 2.26.2secūtus cōnsul Servīlius cum dēlēctā peditum manū.the consul Servilius followed with a picked band of infantry. Liv. 2.26.3Plērōsque pālantēs eques circumvēnit, nec advenientī peditum agminī restitit Sabīna legiō;The cavalry surrounded most of them as they straggled about, and the Sabine legion did not withstand the column of infantry as it came up; Liv. 2.26.3fessī cum itinere tum populātiōne nocturnā, magna pars in vīllīs replētī cibō vīnōque, vix fugae quod satis esset vīrium habuēre.worn out both by the march and by their night's plundering, a great part of them gorged with food and wine in the farmhouses, they scarcely had strength enough to flee.
Liv. 2.26.4Nocte ūnā audītō perfectōque bellō Sabīnō posterō diē in magnā iam spē undique partae pācis lēgātī Auruncī senātum adeunt, nī dēcēdātur Volscō agrō, bellum indīcentēs.The Sabine war having been heard of and finished in a single night, on the following day, when there were now high hopes that peace had been won on every side, Auruncan envoys come before the senate, declaring war unless the Volscian territory was evacuated. Liv. 2.26.5Cum lēgātīs simul exercitus Auruncōrum domō profectus erat;Together with the envoys an army of the Aurunci had set out from home; Liv. 2.26.5cuius fāma haud procul iam ab Arīciā vīsī tantō tumultū concīvit Rōmānōs, ut nec cōnsulī ōrdine patrēs nec pācātum respōnsum arma īnferentibus arma ipsī capientēs dare possent.the report that it had already been seen not far from Aricia threw the Romans into such turmoil that neither could the senators be consulted in due form, nor, taking up arms themselves, could they give a peaceful answer to men bringing arms against them. Liv. 2.26.5Arīciam īnfestō agmine itur, nec procul inde cum Auruncīs signa conlāta proeliōque ūnō dēbellātum est.They march on Aricia in battle array, and not far from there they engaged the Aurunci, and the war was finished in a single battle.