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being in power, named Februarius, descending from the race of the Gauls, it was devised. For in the Comitium, 184 when Mallion Capitolinus entered, and the common body of the 184 senate was seated, the senator Februarius, standing up, says to Mallion, “When the army of the Romans conquered the Gauls, why do you exalt yourself, as if you fought in single combat? The fortune of the Romans always conquers its enemies; and this did not escape us either, that for this reason you are in such a state of desperation, as wishing yourself also to be a tyrant over the Romans; which is not possible for you.” And when the senate and the army and the people heard these things, they attacked Mallion Capitolinus. And the people, rising up according to the will of the senate, shouted for the same Mallion Capitolinus to be cast out from the city of Rome; who, fearing the army and the people, went out to his own estates, near the land called Apulia, and there lived in peace. And when he had fled, the people of Rome attacked his house, and they plundered all his belongings. But the Gauls, having appointed for themselves a king powerful in wars named Brennus, immediately marched against Rome, having heard also on account of Mallion that he had been cast out from Rome. And Brennus the king, setting out, suddenly entered Rome, and he took it by night in winter, on the fifteenth of the month of Sextilis, having sent ahead secretly those who were to kill the gatekeepers and open the gate for him. And when these were being killed, a commotion was made; and the senators, realizing the capture of the city, all fled, and the manifest illustrious men of the city with their wives and children entered into the 185 Capitol into the temple of Jupiter with their own money. And Brennus the king, having taken the city of Rome, slaughters many citizens and some of the soldiers and takes them captive; and he remained besieging the Capitol on account of the senators who were in it and on account of their money. And the senators, being able, wrote, begging Mallion Capitolinus to gather the reserve army that was throughout the city and country of the Romans, and to come for the avenging of Rome and for their aid. And Mallion Capitolinus, having received the letters of the senate, knowing that Rome was taken and the Capitol was being guarded by Brennus, king of the Gauls, was troubled; and immediately gathering a multitude of the army from all sides, and setting out, he came against Brennus the king suddenly and unexpectedly to Rome; and he himself, having drawn up his own army by night in the streets of the city, and having caught Brennus the king and all his men in the middle, as foreigners, he destroyed them. And having prevailed, he captured the same Brennus the king; and immediately he beheaded him, and fixed his head on a pole. And having cut down his multitudes and his counts, he rescued all the Roman captives whom he had seized, taking away also all the things plundered by them And the senate of the Romans, having come out of the Capitol after the victory of Mallion Capitolinus, immediately voted for him, together with the army and the people who remained with him, that he alone should administer the affairs of the Romans. 186 And Mallion Capitolinus, having taken control of Rome again, was immediately grieved on account of the capture of the city of Rome and the insolence and the defeat of the Romans. And in the so-called month of Sextilis, he shortened the days of that month, as it had become ill-omened for the city of Rome, and struck out its name, so that it should no longer be called so. And having arrested also the senator his enemy, who had plotted against him, named Februarius, the one who also had caused him to be cast out of the city of Rome, and having taken away all his property, he immediately in his sight distributed it as pay to the army that came with him for the avenging of the city of Rome, addressing the senate and the army, that

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ὄντος ἐν δυνάμει, ὀνόματι Φεβρουαρίου, καταγομένου ἐκ γένους τῶν Γάλλων, κατεσκευάσθη. ἐν κομβεντίῳ γὰρ 184 εἰσελθόντος τοῦ Μαλλίωνος Καπιτωλίνου, καὶ τοῦ κοινοῦ τῆς 184 συγκλήτου καθεζομένου, ἐξαναστὰς ὁ Φεβρουάριος συγκλητικὸς λέγει τῷ Μαλλίωνι, Τοῦ στρατοῦ Ῥωμαίων νικήσαντος τοὺς Γάλλους σὺ τί ὑπεραίρῃ, ὡς μονομαχήσας; ἡ τύχη Ῥωμαίων ἀεὶ νικᾷ τοὺς πολεμίους· οὐ διέλαθε δὲ ἡμᾶς καὶ τοῦτο, ὅτι διὰ τοῦτο ἐν ἀπονοίᾳ τοσαύτῃ ὑπάρχεις, ὡς βουλόμενος καὶ σὺ τυραννῆσαι τοὺς Ῥωμαίους· ὅπερ οὐκ ἐγγίνεταί σοι. καὶ ἀκούσασα ταῦτα ἡ σύγκλητος καὶ ὁ στρατὸς καὶ ὁ δῆμος, ἐπῆλθε τῷ Μαλλίωνι Καπιτωλίνῳ. ὁ δὲ δῆμος ἐπαναστὰς κατὰ γνώμην τῆς συγκλήτου ἐβόησαν ἐκβληθῆναι ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως Ῥώμης τὸν αὐτὸν Μαλλίωνα Καπιτωλῖνον· ὅστις εὐλαβηθεὶς τὸν στρατὸν καὶ τὸν δῆμον ἐξῆλθεν ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις κτήμασι, πλησίον τῆς λεγομένης Ἀπουληίας χώρας, κἀκεῖ διῆγεν ἡσυχάζων. ἐκείνου δὲ φυγόντος ἐπῆλθεν ὁ δῆμος Ῥωμαίων τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ, καὶ πάντα τὰ διαφέροντα αὐτῷ διήρπασαν. Οἱ δὲ Γάλλοι προχειρισάμενοι αὑτοῖς ῥῆγα δυνατὸν ἐν πολέμοις ὀνόματι Βρῆνον, ἐπεστράτευσαν εὐθέως ἐπὶ τῆς Ῥώμης, ἀκούσαντες καὶ διὰ τὸν Μαλλίωνα ὅτι ἐξεβλήθη ἀπὸ τῆς Ῥώμης. καὶ ὁρμήσας ὁ Βρῆνος ῥὴξ ἐξαίφνης εἰσῆλθεν ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ, καὶ παρέλαβεν αὐτὴν νυκτὸς ἐν χειμῶνι, τῇ πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ τοῦ ἑξτιλλίου μηνός, προπέμψας λάθρᾳ τοὺς ὀφείλοντας φονεῦσαι τοὺς πορταρίους καὶ ἀνοῖξαι αὐτῷ τὴν πόρταν. καὶ τούτων φονευομένων ἐγένετο πτῦρμα· καὶ γνόντες οἱ συγκλητικοὶ τὴν παράληψιν τῆς πόλεως, ἔφυγον πάντες, καὶ φανεροὶ τῶν τῆς πόλεως λαμπροὶ σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ τέκνοις εἰσῆλθον ἐν τῷ 185 Καπετωλίῳ εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ ∆ιὸς μετὰ τῶν ἰδίων χρημάτων. παραλαβὼν δὲ ὁ Βρῆνος ῥὴξ τὴν πόλιν Ῥώμην, κατασφάζει πολλοὺς πολίτας καί τινας τῶν στρατιωτῶν καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζει· καὶ ἔμενε πολιορκῶν τὸ Καπετώλιον διὰ τοὺς ὄντας ἐν αὐτῷ συγκλητικοὺς καὶ διὰ τὰ χρήματα αὐτῶν. δυνηθέντες δὲ οἱ συγκλητικοὶ ἔγραψαν, δεόμενοι τοῦ Μαλλίωνος Καπιτωλίνου συνάξαι τὸν κατὰ πόλιν καὶ χώραν Ῥωμαίων ὄντα ἐγκάθετον στρατόν, καὶ ἐλθεῖν εἰς ἐκδίκησιν τῆς Ῥώμης καὶ εἰς βοήθειαν αὐτῶν. καὶ δεξάμενος τὰ τῆς συγκλήτου γράμματα ὁ Μαλλίων Καπιτωλῖνος, γνοὺς ὅτι ἐλήφθη ἡ Ῥώμη καὶ τὸ Καπετώλιον φρουρεῖται ὑπὸ τοῦ Βρήνου, ῥηγὸς τῶν Γάλλων, ἐταράχθη· καὶ συναγαγὼν εὐθέως πάντοθεν πλῆθος στρατοῦ, καὶ ὁρμήσας, ἦλθε κατὰ τοῦ Βρήνου ῥηγὸς ἐξαίφνης ἀπροσδοκήτως εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην· καὶ αὐτὸς νυκτὸς κατάξας τὸν ἴδιον στρατὸν ἐν ταῖς ῥύμαις τῆς πόλεως, καὶ μεσάσας τὸν Βρῆνον ῥῆγα καὶ τοὺς αὐτοῦ πάντας, ὡς ξένους, ἀνεῖλε. καὶ περιγενόμενος συνελάβετο τὸν αὐτὸν Βρῆνον ῥῆγα· καὶ εὐθέως ἀπεκεφάλισεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἔπηξεν ἐν κοντῷ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ. καὶ τὰ πλήθη δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς κόμητας αὐτοῦ κατακόψας, ἐῤῥύσατο πάντας οὓς συνελάβετο Ῥωμαίους αἰχμαλώτους, ἀφελόμενος καὶ πάντα τὰ παρ' αὐτῶν πραιδευθέντα καὶ ἐξελθοῦσα ἡ σύγκλητος Ῥωμαίων ἐκ τοῦ Καπετωλίου μετὰ τὴν νίκην τοῦ Μαλλίωνος Καπιτωλίνου εὐθέως ἐψηφίσατο αὐτὸν ἅμα τῷ στρατῷ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ τῷ περιλειφθέντι αὐτῷ αὐτὸν μόνον διοικεῖν τὰ Ῥωμαίων πράγματα. 186 καὶ κρατήσας πάλιν τῆς Ῥώμης ὁ Μαλλίων Καπιτωλῖνος εὐθέως ἐλυπήθη διὰ τὴν παράληψιν τῆς πόλεως Ῥώμης καὶ τὴν ὕβριν καὶ τὴν ἧτταν Ῥωμαίων. ἐν δὲ τῷ λεγομένῳ μηνὶ ἑξτιλλίῳ τοῦ αὐτοῦ μηνὸς τὰς ἡμέρας ἐκολόβωσεν, ὡς δυσοιωνίστου γενομένου τῇ πόλει Ῥώμῃ, ἀποχαράξας καὶ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, μηκέτι καλεῖσθαι οὕτως. συσχὼν δὲ καὶ τὸν συγκλητικὸν τὸν ἐχθρὸν αὐτοῦ, τὸν κατασκευάσαντα αὐτῷ, ὀνόματι Φεβρουάριον, τὸν καὶ ποιήσαντα αὐτὸν ἐκβληθῆναι ἔξω τῆς πόλεως Ῥώμης, καὶ πάντα τὰ αὐτοῦ ἀφελόμενος, εὐθέως ἐπ' ὄψεσιν αὐτοῦ ἐῤῥόγευσε τῷ ἐλθόντι στρατῷ μετ' αὐτοῦ εἰς ἐκδίκησιν τῆς πόλεως Ῥώμης, προσφωνήσας τῇ συγκλήτῳ καὶ τῷ στρατῷ ὅτι