Liv. 22.7.1Haec est nōbilis ad Trasumennum pugna atque inter paucās memorāta populī Rōmānī clādēs.This is the famous battle at Trasimene, remembered among the few disasters of the Roman people. Liv. 22.7.1Quīndecim mīlia Rōmānōrum in aciē caesa;Fifteen thousand Romans were slain in the battle; Liv. 22.7.2decem.ten thousand, Liv. 22.7.2Mīlia sparsa fugā per omnem Etrūriam dīversīs itineribus urbem petiēre;scattered in flight through all Etruria, made for the city by different routes; Liv. 22.7.3duo mīlia quīngentī hostium in aciē, multī posteā ex vulneribus periēre.two thousand five hundred of the enemy perished in the battle, and many afterwards from their wounds. Liv. 22.7.3Multiplex caedēs utrimque facta trāditur ab aliīs;Others report that the slaughter on both sides was many times greater; Liv. 22.7.4ego, praeterquam quod nihil auctum ex vānō velim, quō nimis inclīnant ferme scrībentium animī, Fabium, aequālem temporibus huiusce bellī, potissimum auctōrem habuī.I, besides not wishing anything to be exaggerated without ground, to which writers' minds are usually all too inclined, have taken Fabius, a contemporary of this war, as my chief authority. Liv. 22.7.5Hannibal captīvōrum quī Latiī nōminis essent sine pretiō dīmissīs, Rōmānīs in vincula datīs, sēgregāta ex hostium coacervātōrum cumulīs corpora suōrum cum sepelīrī iussisset, Flāminī quoque corpus fūneris causā magnā cum cūrā inquīsītum nōn invēnit.Hannibal, having released without ransom those of the prisoners who were of the Latin name and put the Romans in chains, ordered the bodies of his own men to be separated from the heaps of piled-up enemy dead and buried, and then sought with great care for the body of Flaminius too, to give it burial, but did not find it.
Liv. 22.7.6Rōmae ad prīmum nūntium clādis eius cum ingentī terrōre ac tumultū concursus in forum populī est factus.At Rome, at the first news of this disaster, the people rushed together into the forum with great terror and uproar. Liv. 22.7.7Mātronae vagae per viās quae repēns clādēs adlāta quaeve fortūna exercitūs esset, obviōs percunctantur.The matrons, wandering through the streets, ask those they meet what sudden disaster had been reported, or what the fortune of the army was. Liv. 22.7.7Et cum frequentis contiōnis modo turba in comitium et cūriam versa magistrātūs vocāret, tandem haud multō ante sōlis occāsum M. Pompōnius praetor "pugnā" inquit " magnā victī sumus."And when the crowd, like a packed assembly, had turned towards the comitium and the senate house and was calling for the magistrates, at last, not long before sunset, the praetor Marcus Pomponius said, 'We have been defeated in a great battle.' Liv. 22.7.8Et quamquam nihil certius ex eō audītum est, tamen alius ab aliō implētī rūmōribus domōs referunt cōnsulem cum magnā parte cōpiārum caesum, superesse paucōs aut fugā passim per Etrūriam sparsōs aut captōs ab hoste.And although nothing more definite was heard from him, still, filled with rumours one from another, they carry back to their homes that the consul had been killed with a large part of his forces, that few survived, and those either scattered in flight throughout Etruria or captured by the enemy.
Liv. 22.7.10Quot cāsūs exercitūs uictī fuerant, tot in cūrās abstractī animī eōrum erant, quōrum propinquī sub C. Flāminiō cōnsule meruerant, ignōrantium, quae cuiusque suōrum fortūna esset;As many as had been the misfortunes of the defeated army, into so many cares were the minds of those torn whose kinsmen had served under the consul Gaius Flaminius, since they did not know what the fortune of each of their own was; Liv. 22.7.10nec quisquam satis certum habet, quid aut spēret aut timeat.nor does anyone know for certain what to hope or to fear. Liv. 22.7.11Posterō ac deinceps aliquot diēbus ad portās maior prope mulierum quam virōrum multitūdō stetit aut suōrum aliquem aut nūntiōs dē iīs opperiēns, circumfundēbanturque obviīs scīscitantēs neque āvellī, utique ab notīs, priusquam ōrdine omnia inquīsīssent, poterant.On the next day and for several days after, at the gates stood a crowd almost larger of women than of men, waiting either for one of their own or for news of them; and they would throng round those they met, questioning them, and could not be torn away, especially from people they knew, before they had inquired into everything in order.
Liv. 22.7.12Inde variōs vultūs dīgredientium ab nūntiīs cernerēs, ut cuique laeta aut trīstia nūntiābantur, grātulantīsque aut cōnsōlantīs redeuntibus domōs circumfūsōs.Then you might have seen the varied expressions of those going away from the messengers, as glad or sad news was given to each, and those returning home surrounded by people congratulating or consoling them. Liv. 22.7.12Fēminārum praecipuē et gaudia īnsignia erant et lūctūs.The women's joys and griefs especially were remarkable. Liv. 22.7.13Ūnam in ipsā portā sōspitī fīliō repente oblātam in complexū eius expīrāsse ferunt;One, they say, suddenly confronted at the very gate by her son safe and sound, died in his embrace; Liv. 22.7.13alteram, cui mors fīlī falsō nūntiāta erat, maestam sedentem domī ad prīmum cōnspectum redeuntis gaudiō nimiō exanimātam.another, to whom her son's death had been falsely reported, as she sat sorrowful at home, was struck dead by excessive joy at the first sight of him returning. Liv. 22.7.14Senātum praetōrēs per diēs aliquot ab ortō ūsque ad occīdentem sōlem in cūriā retinent cōnsultantēs, quōnam duce aut quibus cōpiīs resistī victōribus Poenīs posset.The praetors keep the senate in the senate house for several days from sunrise till sunset, deliberating under what leader or with what forces the victorious Carthaginians could be resisted.