Liv. 2.51.1Cum haec accepta clādēs est, iam C. Horātius et T. Menēnius cōnsulēs erant.When this disaster was suffered, Gaius Horatius and Titus Menenius were already consuls. Liv. 2.51.1Menēnius adversus Tuscōs victōriā ēlātōs cōnfestim missus.Menenius was at once sent against the Tuscans, who were elated by their victory. Liv. 2.51.2Tum quoque male pugnātum est, et Iāniculum hostēs occupāvēre;Then too the battle went badly, and the enemy occupied the Janiculum; Liv. 2.51.2obsessaque urbs foret super bellum annōnā premente — trānsierant enim Etrūscī Tiberim — , nī Horātius cōnsul | ex Volscīs esset revocātus.and the city would have been besieged, with the price of corn pressing on it on top of the war — for the Etruscans had crossed the Tiber — had not the consul Horatius been recalled from the Volsci. Liv. 2.51.2Adeōque id bellum ipsīs īnstitit moenibus, ut prīmō pugnātum ad Speī sit aequō Mārte, iterum ad portam Collīnam.And that war came so close to the very walls that the first battle, with even fortune, was fought by the temple of Hope, the second at the Colline gate. Liv. 2.51.3Ibi quamquam parvō mōmentō superior Rōmāna rēs fuit, meliōrem tamen mīlitem receptō prīstinō animō in futūra proelia id certāmen fēcit.There, although the Romans had the better of it by only a slight margin, that contest nonetheless made them better soldiers for future battles, by restoring their old spirit.
Liv. 2.51.3A. Verginius et Sp. Servīlius cōnsulēs fīunt.Aulus Verginius and Spurius Servilius become consuls. Liv. 2.51.4Post acceptam proximā pugnā clādem Veientēs abstinuēre aciē;After the defeat suffered in the last battle the Veientes refrained from pitched battle; Liv. 2.51.4populātiōnēs erant, et velut ab arce Iāniculō passim in Rōmānum agrum impetūs dabant;there were raids, and from the Janiculum, as if from a citadel, they made attacks everywhere into Roman territory; Liv. 2.51.5nōn usquam pecora tūta, nōn agrestēs erant.nowhere were the cattle safe, nor the country folk. Liv. 2.51.5Captī deinde eādem arte sunt, quā cēperant Fabiōs.Then they were caught by the same trick by which they had caught the Fabii. Liv. 2.51.5Secūtī dēditā operā passim ad inlecebrās prōpulsa pecora praecipitāvēre in īnsidiās.Following cattle that had been deliberately driven out here and there as bait, they plunged headlong into an ambush. Liv. 2.51.6Quō plūrēs erant, maior caedēs fuit.The more numerous they were, the greater the slaughter. Liv. 2.51.6Ex hāc clāde atrōx īra maiōris clādis causa atque initium fuit.From this disaster fierce anger was the cause and beginning of a greater disaster. Liv. 2.51.6Trāiectō enim nocte Tiberī castra Servīlī cōnsulis adortī sunt oppugnāre.For crossing the Tiber by night they set about attacking the camp of the consul Servilius.
Liv. 2.51.6Inde fūsī magnā caede in Iāniculum sē aegrē recēpēre.Driven back from there with great slaughter, they retreated with difficulty to the Janiculum. Liv. 2.51.7Cōnfestim cōnsul et ipse trānsit Tiberim, castra sub Iāniculō commūnit.At once the consul himself also crosses the Tiber and fortifies a camp beneath the Janiculum. Liv. 2.51.7Posterō diē lūce ortā nōnnihil et hesternā fēlīcitāte pugnae ferōx, magis tamen quod inopia frūmentī quamvīs in praecipitia, dum celeriōra essent, agēbat cōnsilia, temerē adversō Iāniculō ad castra hostium aciem ērēxit foediusque inde pulsus, quam prīdiē pepulerat, interventū collēgae ipse exercitusque est servātus.At daybreak the next day, emboldened somewhat by the success of the previous day's battle, but more because the shortage of grain was driving him to plans, however headlong, provided they were quicker, he rashly led his line up the face of the Janiculum to the enemy camp, and was driven back from there more shamefully than he had driven them back the day before, and was saved, he and his army, by the intervention of his colleague. Liv. 2.51.9Inter duās aciēs Etrūscī, cum in vicem hīs atque illīs terga darent, occīdiōne occīsī.Caught between two lines, the Etruscans, turning their backs now to one, now to the other, were cut down to the last man.
Liv. 2.51.9Ita oppressum temeritāte fēlīcī Vēiēns bellum.Thus the war with Veii was crushed by a fortunate rashness.