[3,66] Τότε δ´ οὖν, ἐπειδὴ παρεσκεύαστο ἀμφοτέροις τὰ πρὸς τὸν ἀγῶνα ἐπιτήδεια, συνῄεσαν εἰς μάχην, εἶχον δὲ τὸ μὲν εὐώνυμον κέρας οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι, τὸ δὲ δεξιὸν οἱ Τυρρηνοί, κατὰ μέσην δὲ τὴν φάλαγγα Λατῖνοι ἐτάχθησαν. γενομένου δὲ ἀγῶνος καρτεροῦ δι´ ὅλης ἡμέρας ἐνίκων οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι παρὰ πολὺ καὶ πολλοὺς μὲν ἀποκτείναντες τῶν πολεμίων ἐν τῇ μάχῃ γενομένους ἄνδρας ἀγαθούς, πολλῷ δ´ ἔτι πλείους αἰχμαλώτους λαβόντες ἐν τῇ φυγῇ, τῶν δὲ παρεμβολῶν ἀμφοτέρων ἐγκρατεῖς γενόμενοι καὶ χρημάτων μέγαν περιβαλόμενοι πλοῦτον ἀδεῶς ἤδη τῆς ὑπαίθρου πάσης ἐκράτουν, ἣν πυρὶ καὶ σιδήρῳ καὶ πᾶσι λωβησάμενοι κακοῖς, ἐπειδὴ τὸ θέρος ἐτελεύτα, λύσαντες τὰς παρεμβολὰς ἀπῄεσαν ἐπ´ οἴκου. καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς Ταρκύνιος τρίτον ἐπὶ τῆς ἰδίας ἀρχῆς τὸν ἐκ τῆςδε τῆς μάχης κατήγαγε θρίαμβον. τῷ δ´ ἑξῆς ἐνιαυτῷ παρασκευαζομένου πάλιν τοῦ βασιλέως στρατὸν ἐπὶ τὰς πόλεις τῶν Σαβίνων ἐξάγειν καὶ πολιορκίαις αὐτὰς προσάγεσθαι διεγνωκότος, γενναῖον μὲν οὐδὲν ἔτι βούλευμα καὶ νεανικὸν οὐδεμιᾶς ἐγένετο, πᾶσαι δὲ κοινῇ γνώμῃ χρησάμεναι πρὶν εἰς κίνδυνον ἐλθεῖν ἀνδραποδισμοῦ καὶ κατασκαφῆς καταλύσασθαι τὸν πόλεμον ἔγνωσαν. καὶ παρῆσαν ἐξ ἑκάστης πόλεως οἱ κράτιστοι τῶν Σαβίνων πρὸς βασιλέα Ταρκύνιον ἐξεληλυθότα μετὰ πάσης ἤδη δυνάμεως παραδιδόντες αὐτῷ τὰ τείχη καὶ δεόμενοι μετρίας ποιήσασθαι τὰς συμβάσεις. ὁ δὲ ἀσπαστῶς δεξάμενος τὴν ἄνευ κινδύνων ὑποταγὴν τοῦ ἔθνους σπονδάς τε ποιεῖται πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὑπὲρ εἰρήνης τε καὶ φιλίας ἐπὶ ταῖς αὐταῖς ὁμολογίαις, αἷς Τυρρηνοὺς πρότερον ὑπηγάγετο, καὶ τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους ἀπέδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἄνευ λύτρων.

[3,66] On this occasion, then, when both armies had made the necessary preparations for the struggle, they engaged; the Romans were posted on the left wing, the Tyrrhenians on the right, and the Latins in the centre of the line. After a hard battle that lasted the whole day the Romans were far superior; and having slain many of the enemy, who had acquitted themselves as brave men, and having taken many more of them prisoners in the rout, they possessed themselves of both Sabine camps, where they seized a rich store of booty. And now being masters of all the open country without fear of opposition, they laid it waste with fire and sword and every kind of injury; but as the summer drew to an end, they broke camp and returned home. And King Tarquinius in honour of this victory triumphed for the third time during his own reign. The following year, when he was preparing to lead (p237) his army once more against the cities of the Sabines and had determined to reduce them by siege, there was not one of those cities that any longer took any brave or vigorous resolution, but all unanimously determined, before incurring the risk of slavery for themselves and the razing of their cities, to put an end to the war. And the most important men among the Sabines came from every city to King Tarquinius, who had already taken the field with all his forces, to deliver up their walled cities to him and to beg him to make reasonable terms. Tarquinius gladly accepted this submission of the nation, unattended as it was by any hazards, and made a treaty of peace and friendship with them upon the same conditions upon which he had earlier received the submission of the Tyrrhenians; and he restored their captives to them without ransom.