Liv. 2.38.1Cum prope continuātō agmine īrent, praegressus Tullius ad caput Ferentīnum, ut quisque venīret, prīmōrēs eōrum excipiēns querendō indignandōque, et eōs ipsōs sēdulō audientēs secunda īrae verba et per eōs multitūdinem aliam in subiectum viae campum dēdūxit.As they went in an almost continuous column, Tullius, who had gone on ahead to the source of the Ferentina, received their leading men as each arrived, complaining and expressing indignation, and led both these men themselves, who listened eagerly to words that fed their anger, and through them the rest of the crowd, into the plain lying below the road. Liv. 2.38.2Ibi in contiōnis modum ōrātiōnem exōrsus veterēs populī Rōmānī iniūriās clādēsque gentis Volscōrum commemorāvit.There, beginning a speech in the manner of an assembly, he recalled the old wrongs done by the Roman people and the disasters of the Volscian nation. Liv. 2.38.2Tum "ut omnia" inquit "oblīvīscāminī alia, hodiernam hanc contumēliam quō tandem animō fertis, quā per nostram ignōminiam lūdōs commīsēre?Then he said, 'Even if you forget everything else, with what feelings, pray, do you bear this insult of today, by which they have opened the games through our disgrace?
Liv. 2.38.3An nōn sēnsistis triumphātum hodiē dē vōbīs esse?Did you not feel that today a triumph has been held over you? Liv. 2.38.3Vōs omnibus, cīvibus peregrīnīs, tot fīnitimīs populīs spectāculō abeuntēs fuisse, vestrās coniugēs, vestrōs līberōs trāductōs per ōra hominum?That as you departed you were a spectacle to all, citizens, foreigners, so many neighbouring peoples, that your wives and your children were paraded before men's eyes? Liv. 2.38.4Quid eōs, quī audīvēre vōcem praecōnis, quid, quī nōs vīdēre abeuntēs, quid eōs, quī huic ignōminiōsō agminī fuēre obviī, exīstimāsse putātis, nisi aliquod profectō nefās esse, quod, sī intersīmus spectāculō, violātūrī sīmus lūdōs piāculumque meritūrī, ideō nōs ab sēde piōrum, coetū conciliōque abigī?What do you suppose those who heard the herald's voice, those who saw us going away, those who met this shameful column, thought, except that there must surely be some sacrilege, such that if we were present at the spectacle we should profane the games and incur the need for atonement, and that for this reason we are being driven from the dwelling-place of the pious, from their gathering and assembly?
Liv. 2.38.5Quid deinde?What then? Liv. 2.38.5Illud nōn succurrit, vīvere nōs, quod mātūrārīmus proficīscī?Does it not occur to you that we are alive because we hurried to set out? Liv. 2.38.5Sī hoc profectiō et nōn fuga est.If indeed this is a departure and not a flight. Liv. 2.38.5Et hanc urbem vōs nōn hostium dūcitis, ubi sī ūnum diem morātī essētis, moriendum omnibus fuit?And do you not consider this the city of enemies, where, if you had stayed a single day, all of you would have had to die? Liv. 2.38.6Bellum vōbīs indictum est, magnō eōrum malō, quī indīxēre, sī virī estis."War has been declared on you, to the great harm of those who declared it, if you are men.' Liv. 2.38.6Ita et suā sponte īrārum plēnī et incitātī domōs inde dīgressī sunt īnstīgandōque suōs quisque populōs effēcēre, ut omne Volscum nōmen dēficeret.So, both full of anger of their own accord and roused besides, they dispersed from there to their homes, and by stirring up each his own people they brought about the revolt of the whole Volscian name.