Liv. 3.7.1Dēserta omnia, sine capite, sine vīribus, Diī praesidēs ac fortūna urbis tūtāta est, quae Volscīs Aequīsque praedōnum potius mentem quam hostium dedit;With everything abandoned, without a head, without strength, the city was protected by its guardian gods and its fortune, which gave the Volscians and Aequi the mind of plunderers rather than of enemies; Liv. 3.7.1adeō enim nūllam spem nōn potiundī modo, sed nē adeundī quidem Rōmāna moenia animus eōrum cēpit, tēctaque procul vīsa atque inminentēs tumulī āvertēre mentēs eōrum, ut tōtīs passim castrīs fremitū ortō, quid in vāstō ac dēsertō agrō inter tābem pecorum hominumque dēsidēs sine praedā tempus tererent, cum integra loca, Tusculānum agrum opīmum cōpiīs, petere possent, signa repente convellerent trānsversīsque itineribus per Labīcānōs agrōs in Tusculānōs collēs trānsīrent.for their spirit conceived no hope, not only of taking, but not even of approaching the walls of Rome, and the roofs seen in the distance and the overhanging hills so turned their minds away that, a murmur arising everywhere throughout the camp as to why they should waste their time idle, without plunder, in a waste and deserted land amid the rotting carcasses of cattle and men, when they could make for untouched places, the Tusculan land rich in supplies, they suddenly pulled up their standards and passed by cross-country routes through the territory of Labici into the Tusculan hills.
Liv. 3.7.3Eō vīs omnis tempestāsque bellī conversa est.There all the violence and storm of the war was turned. Liv. 3.7.3Interim Hernicī Latīnīque, pudōre etiam, nōn misericordiā sōlum mōtī, sī nec obstitissent commūnibus hostibus īnfestō agmine Rōmānam urbem petentibus nec opem ūllam obsessīs sociīs ferrent, coniūnctō exercitū Rōmam pergunt.Meanwhile the Hernici and Latins, moved by shame too and not by pity alone, if they neither opposed the common enemy as he made for the city of Rome in hostile column nor brought any help to their besieged allies, joined their armies and proceeded to Rome. Liv. 3.7.5Ubi cum hostēs nōn invēnissent, secūtī fāmam ac vestīgia obviī fīunt dēscendentibus ab Tusculānā in Albānam vallem.When they did not find the enemy there, following reports and tracks they met them as they were coming down from the Tusculan territory into the Alban valley. Liv. 3.7.5Ibi haudquāquam aequō proeliō pugnātum est, fidēsque sua sociīs parumfēlīx in praesentiā fuit fuit.There the fight was far from equal, and their loyalty brought the allies little luck for the present. Liv. 3.7.6Haud minor Rōmae fit morbō strāgēs, quam quanta ferrō sociōrum facta erat.At Rome the slaughter caused by disease was no less than that which had been caused among the allies by the sword.
Liv. 3.7.6Cōnsul, quī ūnus supererat, moritur;The consul who alone survived died; Liv. 3.7.6mortuī et aliī clārī virī, M'. Valerius, T. Verginius Rutilus augurēs, Ser. Sulpicius cūriō maximus;other distinguished men died as well, the augurs Manius Valerius and Titus Verginius Rutilus, and the chief curio Servius Sulpicius; Liv. 3.7.6et per ignōta capita lātē vagāta est vīs morbī.and among obscure persons too the violence of the disease spread far and wide. Liv. 3.7.7Inopsque senātus auxiliī hūmānī ad deōs populum ac vōta vertit: iussī cum coniugibus ac līberīs supplicātum īre pācemque exposcere deum.And the senate, destitute of human help, turned the people to the gods and to vows: they were ordered to go with their wives and children to make supplication and to beg the peace of the gods. Liv. 3.7.8Ad id, quod sua quemque mala cōgēbant, auctōritāte pūblicā ēvocātī omnia dēlūbra inplent.Summoned by public authority to what their own afflictions were already forcing each of them to do, they filled all the shrines. Liv. 3.7.8Strātae passim mātrēs crīnibus templa verrentēs veniam īrārum caelestium fīnemque pestī exposcunt.Everywhere mothers lay prostrate, sweeping the temples with their hair, begging pardon for the anger of heaven and an end to the plague.