第7巻 第18章

Greek Ἐπεὶ δὲ τὸ ξὺν τῷ Ἰωάννῃ καὶ Ἰσαάκῃ στράτευμα ἐς Ἐπίδαμνόν τε ἀφίκετο καὶ Βελισαρίῳ ξυνέμιξεν, Ἰωάννης μὲν ἅπαντας διαπορθμευσαμένους ἠξίου τὸν κόλπον πεζῇ ἰόντας παντὶ τῷ στρατῷ κοινῇ τὰ προσπίπτοντα φέρειν, Βελισαρίῳ δὲ ἀξύμφορον τοῦτο ἔδοξεν εἶναι, ἀλλὰ πλέουσι μὲν αὐτοῖς ἐς τὰ ἀμφὶ Ῥώμην χωρία μᾶλλον ξυνοίσειν·

Dewing When the army under John and Isaac had reached Epidamnus and joined Belisarius, John, on the one hand, urged that they ferry all the troops across the gulf and proceed by land with the whole army, meeting together whatever opposition might develop against them; but Belisarius, on the other hand, considered this plan inexpedient, and thought that more was to be gained by sailing to the neighbourhood of Rome;

Greek πεζῇ γὰρ ἰοῦσι χρόνον τε σφίσι τετρίψεσθαι πλείω καί τι ὑπαντιάσειν ἴσως ἐμπόδιον· Ἰωάννην δὲ διά τε Καλαβρῶν καὶ τῶν ταύτῃ ἐθνῶν ἰόντα ἐξελάσαι μὲν ὀλίγους κομιδῆ τοὺς ἐνταῦθα βαρβάρους ὄντας, ὑποχείρια δὲ ποιησάμενον τὰ ἐντὸς κόλπου τοῦ Ἰονίου ξυμμῖξαι σφίσιν ἥκοντα ἐς τὰ ἀμφὶ Ῥώμην χωρία.

Dewing for in going by land they would consume a longer time, and would perhaps be confronted by some obstacle; John meanwhile was to march through the territory of the Calabrians and the other peoples of that region, drive out the few barbarians who were there, and, after redu­cing to submission the territory south of the Ionian Gulf, march to the neighbourhood of Rome and rejoin his friends;

Greek οὗ δὴ καὶ αὐτὸς καταίρειν τῷ ἄλλῳ στρατῷ διενοεῖτο. ᾤετο γὰρ πικρότατα πολιορκουμένων Ῥωμαίων, καί τινα, ὥς γε τὸ εἰκός, βραχυτάτην τριβὴν τὰ ἀνήκεστα λυμανεῖσθαι τοῖς πράγμασι.

Dewing it was here, indeed, that Belisarius purposed to land with the rest of the army. For he thought that, whence the Romans were suffering most cruelly in the siege, even the smallest delay would, in all probability, bring disaster to their cause.

Greek καὶ πλέουσι μὲν ἀνέμου τε σφίσιν ἐπιφόρου ἐπιπεσόντος πεμπταίοις ἐς τὸν Ῥωμαίων λιμένα καταίρειν δυνατὰ ἔσεσθαι, στρατῷ δὲ ἐκ Δρυοῦντος πεζῇ ἰοῦσιν οὐδ’ ἂν τεσσαράκοντα ἡμερῶν ἐν Ῥώμῃ γενέσθαι.

Dewing And if they went by sea and met with a favouring wind, it would be possible to land at the harbour of Rome on the fifth day, while an army marching by land from Dryus could not reach Rome even within forty days.

Greek Ταῦτα βελισάριος Ἰωάννῃ ἐπιστείλας παντὶ τῷ στόλῳ ἐνθένδε ἀπῆρε· πνεύματος δὲ σκληροῦ σφίσιν ἐπιπεσόντος Δρυοῦντι προσέσχον.

Dewing So Belisarius gave these directions to John and set sail from there with his whole fleet; but a violent wind fell upon them, and they put in at Dryus.

Greek οὗπερ οἱ Γότθοι αἰσθόμενοι, ὅσοι δὴ ἐτετάχατο ἐπὶ τῇ πολιορκίᾳ τοῦ ἐνταῦθα φρουρίου, διαλύσαντες τὴν προσεδρείαν εὐθὺς κομίζονται ἀμφὶ πόλιν Βρεντέσιον, δυοῖν μὲν ἡμέραιν ὁδῷ Δρυοῦντος διέχουσαν, πρὸς δὲ τῇ ἀκτῇ τοῦ κόλπου κειμένην, ἀτείχιστον οὖσαν, ὑποτοπάζοντες Βελισάριον αὐτίκα δὴ διαβήσεσθαι τὸν ἐκείνῃ πορθμόν, ἔς τε Τουτίλαν τὰ παρόντα σφίσιν ἀνήνεγκαν.

Dewing And when the Goths who had been stationed there to besiege the fortress saw this fleet, they abandoned the siege and straightway betook themselves to the neighbourhood of Brundisium, a city two days' journey distant from Dryus,⁠ situated on the coast of the gulf and without walls; for they supposed that Belisarius would immediately pass through the strait at Dryus;⁠ and they reported their situation to Totila.

Greek ὁ δὲ πάντα τε τὸν στρατὸν ὡς ὑπαντιάσων ἐν παρασκευῇ ἐποιήσατο καὶ Γότθους τοὺς ἐν Καλαβρίᾳ ἐκέλευεν, ὅπη ἂν σφίσι δυνατὰ εἴη, τὴν δίοδον ἐν φυλακῇ ἔχειν.

Dewing He, for his part, put his own army in readiness to oppose Belisarius and commanded the Goths in Calabria to keep the passes under guard as best they could.

Greek Ἐπεὶ δὲ Βελισάριος πνεύματος ἐπιφόρου ἐπιπνεύσαντος ἐκ Δρυοῦντος ἀπέπλευσεν, οἵ τε Γότθοι ἀφροντιστήσαντες δίαιταν οὐ κατεσπουδασμένην ἐν Καλαβροῖς εἶχον καὶ ὁ Τουτίλας ἡσυχῆ μένων ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐφύλασσε τὰς ἐς Ῥώμην εἰσόδους, ὡς μή τι ἐσκομίζεσθαι τῶν ἐπιτηδείων δυνατὰ εἴη.

Dewing But when Belisarius, finding a favourable wind, sailed away from Dryus, the Goths in Calabria thought no more of him and began to conduct themselves carelessly, while Totila was content to remain quiet and to guard still more closely the approaches to Rome, so that it might be impossible to bring any kind of provisions into the city.

Greek ἔν τε τῷ Τιβέριδι ἐπενόει τάδε. χῶρον κατανοήσας ᾗ μάλιστα ὁ ποταμὸς ἐν στενῷ κάτεισιν, ὅσον ἀπὸ σταδίων τῆς πόλεως ἐνενήκοντα, δοκοὺς ἐσάγαν μακρὰς ἐκ τῆς ἑτέρας ὄχθης ἄχρι ἐς τὴν ἑτέραν ἐξικνουμένας ἐνταῦθα ἐς γεφύρας κατέθετο σχῆμα.

Dewing And he devised the following structure on the Tiber. Observing a place where the river flows in a very narrow channel, about ninety stades distant from the city, he placed very long timbers, reaching from one bank to the other, so as to form a bridge at that point.

Greek πύργους τε δύο ξυλίνους παρ’ ἑκατέραν ὄχθην τεκτηνάμενος φυλακτήριον κατεστήσατο μαχίμων ἀνδρῶν, ὡς μηκέτι ἀκάτοις τισὶν ἢ πλοίοις ἄλλοις ἐκ τοῦ Πόρτου ἀναγομένοις ἐς τὴν πόλιν ἐσιτητὰ εἴη.

Dewing Then he constructed two wooden towers, one on either bank, and placed in each one a garrison of warlike men, so that it might be no longer possible for boats of any kind whatever to make their way up from Portus and so enter the city.

Greek Ἐν τούτῳ δὲ Βελισάριος μὲν ἐς τὸν τῶν Ῥωμαίων λιμένα κατῆρε, καὶ τὸ ξὺν τῷ Ἰωάννῃ στράτευμα ἔμενεν. Ἰωάννης δὲ ἐς Καλαβρίαν διαπορθμεύεται, Γότθων ἥκιστα αἰσθομένων, οἲ δὴ ἀμφὶ τὸ Βρεντέσιον, ὥσπερ ἐρρήθη, διατριβὴν εἶχον.

Dewing Meanwhile Belisarius, on his part, landed at the harbour of Rome, while John with his army was remaining where he was. Then John ferried his go over to Calabria, quite unobserved by the Goths, who, as stated avail, were waiting in the neighbourhood of Brundisium.

Greek δύο τε τῶν πολεμίων λαβὼν ἐπὶ κατασκοπῇ ὁδῷ ἰόντας τὸν μὲν ἕνα εὐθὺς ἔκτεινεν, ἅτερος δὲ αὐτοῦ τῶν γονάτων λαβόμενος ζωγρεῖσθαι ἠξίου.

Dewing And he captured two of the enemy who were going out as scouts, one of whom he killed immediately; but the other laid hooked of his knees and begged to be made a prisoner.

Greek “Οὐ γὰρ ἀχρεῖός σοι,” ἔφη, “καὶ τῷ Ῥωμαίων στρατῷ ἔσομαι.” ἐρομένου δὲ αὐτὸν Ἰωάννου, τί δὲ οὐκ ἀπολούμενος συνοίσειν ποτὲ Ῥωμαίοις τε καὶ αὐτῷ μέλλει, Γότθοις ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὡς ἥκιστα προσδεχομένοις ἐπιστήσειν αὐτὸν ὑπέσχετο.

Dewing "For," he said, "I shall not be to you and the Roman army." And when John asked him what advantage he could possibly confer upon the Romans and him if he was not destroyed, the man promised to enable him to fall upon the Goths while they had not the least expectation of such a thing.

Greek καὶ ὃς ἀτυχήσειν μὲν αὐτὸν τῆς δεήσεως οὐδαμῆ ἔφασκε, χρῆναι δέ οἱ πρῶτα τὰς τῶν ἵππων νομὰς ἐνδεικνύναι. ἐπεὶ οὖν ὡμολόγει καὶ ταῦτα ὁ βάρβαρος σὺν αὐτῷ ᾔει.

Dewing Then John said that his prayer should not fail to be heard, but first he must shew him the pastures of their horses. This too the barbarian agreed to do and so he went with him.

Greek καὶ πρῶτα μὲν τῶν πολεμίων τοὺς ἵππους νεμομένους καταλαβόντες ἀναθρώκουσιν ἐς αὐτοὺς ἅπαντες, ὅσοι πεζοὶ ὄντες ἐτύγχανον· οἳ δὴ πολλοί τε καὶ ἄριστοι ἦσαν. ἔπειτα δὲ χωροῦσι δρόμῳ ἐπὶ τὸ τῶν ἐναντίων στρατόπεδον.

Dewing And first, upon finding the enemy's horses pasturing, all the men who happened to be on foot leaped upon their backs; and there was a large number of such men comprising some of the best troops. Next they advanced at full speed upon the camp of their opponents.

Greek οἱ δὲ βάρβαροι ἄνοπλοί τε καὶ ἀπαράσκευοι παντάπασιν ὄντες καὶ τῷ ἀπροσδοκήτῳ καταπλαγέντες αὐτοῦ μὲν οἱ πολλοὶ διεφθάρησαν, οὐδεμιᾶς ἀλκῆς μεμνημένοι, ὀλίγοι δέ τινες διαφυγόντες παρὰ Τουτίλαν ἐκομίσθησαν.

Dewing And the barbarians, being unarmed and utterly unprepared, and terror-stricken by the suddenness of the attack, were most of them destroyed where they stood, utterly forgetful of their valour, and only a small number succeeded in escaping and made their way to Totila.

Greek Ἰωάννης δὲ Καλαβροὺς ἅπαντας παρηγορῶν τε καὶ τιθασσεύων ἐς εὔνοιαν τοῦ βασιλέως ἐπηγάγετο, πολλὰ σφίσιν ὑποσχόμενος πρός τε βασιλέως καὶ τοῦ Ῥωμαίων στρατοῦ ἀγαθὰ ἔσεσθαι.

Dewing Then John began to console and pacify all the Calabrians, endeavouring to win them to loyalty to the emperor and promising that they would receive many benefits both from the emperor and from the Roman army.

Greek ἄρας τε ὡς εἶχε τάχους ἐκ τοῦ Βρεντεσίου, πόλιν καταλαμβάνει Κανούσιον ὄνομα, ἣ κεῖται μὲν ἐν Ἀπουλίοις που μέσοις, πέντε δὲ ἡμερῶν ὁδῷ Βρεντεσίου διέχει ἐς τὰ πρὸς ἑσπέραν τε καὶ Ῥώμην ἰόντι.

Dewing Then, departing as quickly as he could from Brundisium, he captured a city, Canusium⁠ by name, which is situated approximately at the centre of Apulia and is distant from Brundisium five days' journey as one goes westward from Rome.

Greek τούτου Κανουσίου πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι σταδίους ἀπέχουσι Κάνναι, ἵνα δὴ λέγουσι Λιβύων στρατηγοῦντος ἐν τοῖς ἄνω χρόνοις Ἀννίβαλος τὸ μέγα πάθος ξυμβῆναι Ῥωμαίοις.

Dewing Twenty-five stades away from this city of Canusium is Cannae, where they say the Romans in early times suffered their great disaster at the hand of Hannibal, the general of the Libyans.

Greek Ἐνταῦθα Τουλλιανός τις, Βεναντίου παῖς, ἀνὴρ Ῥωμαῖος, δύναμιν πολλὴν ἔν τε Βριττίοις καὶ Λευκανοῖς ἔχων, Ἰωάννῃ ἐς ὄψιν ἥκων ᾐτιᾶτο μὲν τὸν βασιλέως στρατὸν τῶν πρόσθεν ἐς Ἰταλιώτας αὐτοῖς εἰργασμένων, ὡμολόγει δέ, ἤν τινι τὸ λοιπὸν ἐπιεικείᾳ ἐς αὐτοὺς χρήσωνται, Βριττίους τε καὶ Λευκανοὺς ἐγχειριεῖν σφίσι, κατηκόους βασιλεῖ αὖθις ἐς φόρου ἀπαγωγὴν ἐσομένους οὐδέν τι ἧσσον ἢ πρότερον ἦσαν.

Dewing In that city a certain Tullianus, son of Venantius, a Roman who possessed great power among the and Lucani, came before John and made charges against the emperor's army for the treatment they had previously meted out to the Italians, but he agreed that, if the army thereafter should treat them with some degree of consideration, he would hand over Bruttium and Lucania to the Romans, to be again subject and tributary to the emperor no less truly than they had been before.

Greek οὐδὲ γὰρ ἑκόντας αὐτοὺς προσκεχωρηκέναι βαρβάροις τε καὶ Ἀρειανοῖς οὖσιν, ἀλλ’ ὡς μάλιστα πρὸς μὲν τῶν ἐναντίων βιαζομένους, πρὸς δὲ τῶν βασιλέως στρατιωτῶν ἀδικουμένους.

Dewing For it was not, he said, by their own will that they had yielded to men who were both barbarian and adorns, but because they had been placed under most dire constraint by their opponents, and had also been treated with injustice by the emperor's soldiers.

Greek Ἰωάννου δὲ πάντα ἰσχυριζομένου πρὸς αὐτῶν τὸ λοιπὸν Ἰταλιώταις τἀγαθὰ ἔσεσθαι, ξὺν αὐτῷ ὁ Τουλλιανὸς ᾔει.

Dewing And upon John's declaration that thereafter the Italian would receive every blessing from the army, Tullianus went with him.

Greek καὶ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ὑποψίᾳ οἱ στρατιῶται οὐδεμιᾷ ἐς Ἰταλιώτας ἔτι εἴχοντο, ἀλλὰ τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν ἐντὸς κόλπου τοῦ Ἰονίου φίλιά τε αὐτοῖς καὶ βασιλεῖ ἐγεγόνει κατήκοα.

Dewing Consequently the soldiers no longer entertained any suspicion as regards the Italians, but the most of the territory south of the Ionian Gulf had become friendly to them and subject to the emperor.

Greek Ἐπεὶ δὲ ταῦτα Τουτίλας ἤκουσε, Γότθων τριακοσίους ἀπολεξάμενος ἐς Καπύην πέμπει. οἷς δὴ ἐπέστελλεν, ἐπειδὰν τὸ ξὺν τῷ Ἰωάννῃ στράτευμα ἐνθένδε ἴδοιεν ἐς Ῥώμην ἰόντας, ἕπεσθαι σφίσιν αἴσθησιν αὐτοῖς οὐδεμίαν παρεχομένους·

Dewing But when Totila heard this, he selected three hundred of the Goths and sent them to Capua. These men he instructed that, whenever they saw the army of John marching thence toward Rome, they should simply follow him without drawing attention to themselves; for he himself would attend to the rest.

Greek αὐτῷ γὰρ τὰ ἄλλα μελήσειν. δείσας τε διὰ ταῦτα Ἰωάννης μὴ ἐς κύκλωσιν τῶν πολεμίων τινὰ ἐμπέσῃ, παρὰ Βελισάριον μὲν οὐκέτι ᾔει, ἐς δὲ Βριττίους καὶ Λευκανοὺς ἐχώρει.

Dewing In consequence of this John became afraid that he would fall into some trap and be surrounded by the enemy, and so discontinued his movement to join Belisarius, and instead marched into the territory of the Bruttii and Lucani.

Greek Ἦν δέ τις ἐν Γότθοις Ῥεκιμοῦνδος, ἀνὴρ δόκιμος, ὅνπερ ὁ Τουτίλας ἐπὶ τῇ Βριττίων φρουρᾷ καταστησάμενος ἔτυχε, Γότθων τε καὶ Ῥωμαίων στρατιωτῶν καὶ Μαυρουσίων αὐτομόλων τινὰς ἔχοντα, ἐφ’ ᾧ ξὺν αὐτοῖς τόν τε κατὰ Σκύλλαν φυλάξει πορθμὸν καὶ τὴν ταύτῃ ἠϊόνα, ὡς μήτε ἐνθένδε τινὲς ἀπαίρειν ἐς Σικελίαν μήτε ἐκ τῆς νήσου ἐνταῦθα καταπλεῖν ἀδεέστερον οἷοί τε ὦσι.

Dewing Now there was a certain Rhecimundus among the Goths, a man of note whom Totila had appointed to keep guard over Bruttium; he had under him some of the Goths as well as Roman soldiers and Moors who had deserted, and his instructions were to guard with these troops the Strait of Scylla⁠ and the adjoining coast, so that no one might be able fearlessly to set sail from there for Sicily nor to land there from the island.

Greek τούτῳ τῷ στρατῷ μεταξὺ Ῥηγίου τε καὶ Βέβωνος ἀπροσδόκητος καὶ αὐτάγγελος Ἰωάννης ἐπιπεσὼν κατέπληξέ τε ἐκ τοῦ αἰφνιδίου οὐδεμιᾶς ἀλκῆς αὐτοὺς μεμνημένους, καὶ αὐτίκα ἐς φυγὴν ἔτρεψε.

Dewing This army was surprised by John, whose presence had not been reported to them; and he fell upon them at a point between Rhegium and Vevon,⁠ threw them into consternation by a sudden attack, utterly heedless as they were of their valour, and turned them immediately to flight.

Greek καὶ οἱ μὲν ἐς τὸ ὄρος ὃ ταύτῃ ἀνέχει, δύσβατόν τε ὂν καὶ ἄλλως κρημνῶδες, κατέφυγον, Ἰωάννης δὲ διώξας τε καὶ ξὺν τοῖς πολεμίοις ἐν τῷ ἀνάντει γενόμενος, οὔπω τε σφᾶς αὐτοὺς ἐν ταῖς δυσχωρίαις κρατυναμένοις ἐς χεῖρας ἐλθών, πλείστους μὲν τῶν τε Μαυρουσίων καὶ Ῥωμαίων στρατιωτῶν ἔκτεινεν, ἰσχυρότατα ἀμυνομένους, Ῥεκιμοῦνδον δὲ καὶ Γότθους ξὺν τοῖς λοιποῖς ἅπασιν ὁμολογίᾳ εἷλεν.

Dewing And they sought refuge by fleeing to the mountain which rises near by, a difficult one to climb and generally precipitous; but John pursued them and reached the steep slopes along with the enemy, and thus, before they had as yet secured their position on the rough mountain-side, he engaged with them and killed many of the Moors and Roman soldiers, though they offered a most vigorous resistance, and captured by surrender Rhecimundus and the Goths together with all who remained.

Greek Ἰωάννης μὲν ταῦτα διαπεπραγμένος αὐτοῦ ἔμενε, Βελισάριος δὲ Ἰωάννην ἐς ἀεὶ καραδοκῶν ἡσυχῆ ἔμενεν. ἐμέμφετό τε ὅτι δὴ οὐ διακινδυνεύσας τε καὶ τοῖς ἐν Καπύῃ φυλάσσουσι τριακοσίοις οὖσιν ἐς χεῖρας ἥκων ποιεῖσθαι τὴν δίοδον ἐνεχείρησε, καίπερ βαρβάρους ἀριστίνδην ξυνειλεγμένους ξὺν αὑτῷ ἔχων. Ἰωάννης δὲ τὴν δίοδον ἀπογνοὺς ἐπὶ Ἀπουλίας ἐχώρησεν, ἔν τε χωρίῳ Κερβαρίῳ καλουμένῳ ἡσύχαζε.

Dewing After accomplishing this feat, John still continued to remain where he was, while Belisarius, constantly expecting John, remained inactive. And Belisarius kept reproaching him because he would not take the risk of meeting in battle the force on guard at Capua, only three hundred in number, and endeavour to make his way through, in spite of the fact that he had barbarians under his command who were men selected for their valour. But John abandoned that plan, and proceeded to a place in Apulia, called Cervarium,⁠ where he remained in idleness.