Liv. 3.22.1Cōnsulēs creātī Q. Fabius Vibulānus tertium et L. Cornēlius Maluginēnsis.The consuls elected were Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, for the third time, and Lucius Cornelius Maluginensis. Liv. 3.22.1Cēnsus āctus eō annō;The census was taken that year; Liv. 3.22.1lūstrum propter Capitōlium captum, cōnsulem occīsum condī religiōsum fuit.it was thought contrary to religion to close the lustrum, because the Capitol had been captured and a consul killed. Liv. 3.22.2Q. Fabiō, L. Cornēliō cōnsulibus prīncipiō statim annī rēs turbulentae.In the consulship of Quintus Fabius and Lucius Cornelius there was turmoil right at the beginning of the year. Liv. 3.22.2Īnstīgābant plēbem tribūnī;The tribunes were stirring up the plebs; Liv. 3.22.2bellum ingēns ā Volscīs et Aequīs Latīnī atque Hernicī nūntiābant: iam Antiī Volscōrum legiōnēs esse.the Latins and Hernici were reporting a huge war on the part of the Volsci and Aequi: the legions of the Volsci were already at Antium. Liv. 3.22.2Et ipsam colōniam ingēns metus erat dēfectūram;There was great fear, too, that the colony itself would revolt; Liv. 3.22.2aegrēque impetrātum ā tribūnīs, ut bellum praevertī sinerent.and with difficulty the tribunes were prevailed upon to let the war take precedence.
Liv. 3.22.2Cōnsulēs inde partītī prōvinciās: Fabiō ut legiōnēs Antium dūceret datum, Cornēliō ut Rōmae praesidiō esset, nē qua pars hostium, quī Aequīs mōs erat, ad populandum venīret.The consuls then divided the commands between them: to Fabius it was assigned to lead the legions to Antium, to Cornelius to act as a garrison at Rome, lest any part of the enemy, as was the custom of the Aequi, should come to plunder. Liv. 3.22.4Hernicī et Latīnī iussī mīlitēs dare ex foedere;The Hernici and Latins were ordered to provide soldiers under the treaty; Liv. 3.22.4duaeque partēs sociōrum in exercitū, tertia cīvium fuit.and two parts of the army were allies, a third citizens. Liv. 3.22.4Postquam ad diem praestitūtum vēnērunt sociī, cōnsul extrā portam Capēnam castra locat.After the allies had come on the appointed day, the consul pitches camp outside the Capene Gate. Liv. 3.22.4Inde lūstrātō exercitū Antium profectus haud procul oppidō statīvīsque hostium cōnsēdit.From there, after purifying the army, he set out for Antium and encamped not far from the town and the enemy's standing camp. Liv. 3.22.5Ubi cum Volscī, quia nōndum ab Aequīs vēnisset exercitus, dīmicāre nōn ausī, quem ad modum quiētī vallō sē tūtārentur, parārent, posterō diē Fabius nōn permixtam ūnam sociōrum cīviumque, sed trium populōrum trēs sēparātim aciēs circā vallum hostium īnstrūxit;There, when the Volsci, not daring to fight because the army from the Aequi had not yet come, were preparing to defend themselves quietly behind their rampart, on the following day Fabius drew up, not a single line mixing allies and citizens, but three separate lines of the three peoples around the enemy's rampart; Liv. 3.22.5ipse erat medius cum legiōnibus Rōmānīs.he himself was in the centre with the Roman legions.
Liv. 3.22.6Inde signum observāre iussit, ut pariter et sociī rem inciperent referrentque pedem, sī receptuī cecinisset.Then he ordered them to watch for the signal, so that the allies might begin the action together with him and fall back if he sounded the retreat. Liv. 3.22.6Equitēs item suae cuique partī post prīncipia collocat.Likewise he places each division's own cavalry behind its front line. Liv. 3.22.7Ita trifāriam adortus castra circumvenit et, cum undique īnstāret, nōn sustinentēs impetum Volscōs vallō dēturbat.Thus, attacking on three sides, he surrounded the camp and, pressing on from every direction, drove the Volsci, who could not withstand the assault, off their rampart. Liv. 3.22.7Trānsgressus inde mūnītiōnēs pavidam turbam inclīnātamque in partem ūnam castrīs expellit.Then, crossing the fortifications, he drives the frightened crowd, which had given way towards one side, out of the camp. Liv. 3.22.8Inde effūsē fugientēs eques, cui superāre vallum haud facile fuerat, cum ad id spectātor pugnae adstitisset, līberō campō adeptus parte victōriae fruitur territōs caedendō.Next the cavalry, for whom it had not been easy to get over the rampart, and who had stood by till then as spectators of the fight, caught them as they fled in disorder over the open plain and enjoyed a share of the victory by cutting down the terrified men.
Liv. 3.22.9Magna et in castrīs et extrā mūnīmenta caedēs fugientium fuit, sed praeda maior, quia vix arma sēcum efferre hostis potuit.Great was the slaughter of the fugitives both in the camp and outside the fortifications, but greater still the booty, because the enemy could scarcely carry their arms away with them. Liv. 3.22.9Dēlētusque exercitus foret, nī fugientīs silvae tēxissent.And the army would have been wiped out, had the woods not covered their flight.