In the year 388 from the founding of the City a terrible flood of Gauls once again settled by the river Anio, at the fourth milestone from the City, and would without doubt have easily seized the panic-stricken city through the weight of its numbers and the eagerness of its courage, had it not grown sluggish through idleness and slowness.
1 Anno ab urbe condita CCCLXXXVIII iterum terribilis Gallorum inundatio iuxta Anienem fluuium ad quartum ab urbe lapidem consedit, facile sine dubio pondere multitudinis et alacritate uirtutis perturbatam occupatura ciuitatem, nisi otio et lentitudine torpuisset.
There Manlius Torquatus began a most savage fight in single combat, and the dictator Titus Quinctius finished it in a most bloody engagement. Very many of the Gauls, put to flight in this battle, rushed into war again with their forces renewed and were overcome by the dictator Gaius Sulpicius.
2 ubi atrocissimam pugnam Manlius Torquatus singulariter inchoauit, T. Quintius dictator cruentissima congressione confecit. fugati ex hoc proelio plurimi Galli, instauratis iterum copiis in bellum ruentes a C. Sulpicio dictatore superati sunt.
A little afterwards, too, there followed a battle with the Etruscans under Gaius Marcius: how many men were slain in it may be guessed from the fact that eight thousand Etruscans were taken prisoner.
3 post paululum quoque Tuscorum pugna sub C. Marcio consecuta est: ubi conici datur quantum hominum caesum sit, quando octo milia sunt capta Tuscorum.
In these same days, for a third time, the Gauls spread out for plunder from the Alban hills through the coastal districts and the plains below; against them, after a new levy of soldiers had been held and ten legions enrolled, sixty thousand Romans went out, the Latins having refused them their help.
4 Tertio autem in isdem diebus Galli se in praedam per maritima loca subiectosque campos ab Albanis montibus diffuderunt; aduersum quos, nouo militum dilectu habito conscriptisque legionibus decem, LX milia Romanorum, negatis sibi Latinorum auxiliis, processerunt.
Marcus Valerius finished this battle with the help of a raven, from which he was afterwards called Corvinus. For when the Gaul who had issued the challenge was killed, the enemy, terrified and fleeing in all directions, were cut down with heavy slaughter.
5 confecit hanc pugnam M. Valerius, auxiliante coruo alite, unde postea Coruinus est dictus. occiso enim prouocatore Gallo, hostes territi sparsimque fugientes grauiter trucidati sunt.