In the year 376 from the founding of the City all Achaea was shaken by a most violent earthquake, and two cities, namely Bura and Helice, were then swallowed up when the ground split open into chasms.1
1 Anno ab urbe condita CCCLXXVI saeuissimo terrae motu Achaia uniuersa concussa est et duae tunc ciuitates, id est Ebora et Helice, abruptis locorum hiatibus deuoratae.
1Bura and Helice, on the Gulf of Corinth, destroyed by earthquake and tidal wave in 373 BC; Orosius writes Ebora for Bura.
But I, on the other hand, could now tell of similar things in our own days at Constantinople, now likewise the head of the nations — things foretold and done, but not brought to completion — when, after a terrible warning and a conscience that foreknew its own evil, the earth trembled, shaken from its very foundations below, and a flame poured out from heaven hung above, until God, entreated by the prayers of the emperor Arcadius and of the Christian people, averted the destruction that was at hand,2
2 At ego nunc e contrario poteram similia in diebus nostris apud Constantinopolim, aeque modo principem gentium, praedicta et facta sed non perfecta narrare, cum post terribilem denuntiationem conscientiamque mali sui praesciam subter commota funditus terra tremeret et desuper fusa caelitus flamma penderet, donec orationibus Arcadii principis et populi Christiani praesentem perditionem Deus exoratus auerteret,
2Augustine tells the same story of the fiery cloud that hung over Constantinople under Arcadius in his sermon On the Destruction of the City (De excidio urbis Romae).
proving that he alone is both the preserver of the humble and the punisher of the wicked. But let me grant it to modesty that these things be mentioned rather than set out at length, so that he who knows may recall them and he who does not may inquire.
3 probans se solum esse et conseruatorem humilium et punitorem malorum. sed haec ut commemorata sint magis quam explicita uerecundiae concesserim ut et qui scit recolat et qui nescit inquirat.
Meanwhile the Romans, who for seventy years had been worn down, subdued and exhausted by continual wars with the city of the Volsci, and also with the Faliscans, the Aequi and the people of Sutrium, at last, in the days mentioned above, under the leadership of Camillus, captured these same cities and put an end to a conflict that kept reviving.
4 Interea Romani, qui per septuaginta annos ab urbe Vulscorum, praeterea Faliscorum Aequorum et Sutrinorum subacti et adtriti adsiduis bellis conficiebantur, tandem in supra scriptis diebus Camillo duce easdem cepere ciuitates et rediuiuo finem dedere certamini.
At the same time, too, they defeated the Praenestines, who had advanced, fighting and slaughtering, right up to the gate of Rome, in a battle fought by Titus Quinctius at the river Allia.
5 Praenestinos etiam eodem tempore, qui usque ad portam Romae bellando et caedendo peruenerant, ad flumen Haliam T. Quintio pugnante uicerunt.