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- Titi Livi ab urbe condita libri editionem priman, Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-05
Tarquinius Priscus receives the surrender of Collatia, the formal ritual of which is recorded. He then subdues the cities of the Ancient Latins, establishes peace, and embarks on grand public works in Rome, including stone walls, sewers, and the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline.
Collatia et quidquid citra Collatiam agri erat, Sabinis1 ademptum; Egerius — fratris hic filius erat regis — Collatiae in praesidio relictus. deditosque Collatinos ita accipio eamque deditionis formulam esse;2
Collatia and whatever land there was on this side of Collatia were taken from the Sabines; Egerius—he was the son of the king’s brother—was left at Collatia in garrison. And I understand that the Collatini surrendered in this manner, and that this was the formula of surrender:
rex interrogavit: “estisne vos legati oratoresque missi a populo Conlatino, ut vos populumque Collatinum dederetis?” sumus. “estne populus Collatinus in sua potestate?” est. “deditisne vos populumque Collatinum, urbem, agros, aquam, terminos, delubra, utensilia, divina humanaque omnia in meam populique Romani dicionem?”
The king asked: “Are you the envoys and spokesmen sent by the Collatine people, to surrender yourselves and the Collatine people?” “We are.” “Is the Collatine people in its own power?” “It is.” “Do you surrender yourselves and the Collatine people, the city, the fields, the water, the boundary-marks, the shrines, the utensils, and all things divine and human, into my power and that of the Roman people?”
dedimus. “at ego recipio.” bello Sabino perfecto Tarquinius triumphans Romam redit. inde Priscis Latinis bellum fecit.
“We do.” “Then I accept them.” The Sabine war having been finished, Tarquin returned to Rome in triumph. Thereupon he made war upon the Ancient Latins.
ubi nusquam ad universae rei dimicationem ventum est; ad singula oppida circumferendo arma omne nomen Latinum domuit. Corniculum, Ficulea vetus, Cameria, Crustumerium, Ameriola, Medullia, Nomentum, haec de Priscis Latinis aut qui ad Latinos defecerant, capta oppida. pax deinde est facta.
where it never came to a decisive battle of the entire campaign; by carrying his arms to individual towns, he subdued the whole Latin name. Corniculum, Ficulea Vetus, Cameria, Crustumerium, Ameriola, Medullia, Nomentum—these were the captured towns belonging to the Ancient Latins, or to those who had revolted to the Latins. Then peace was made.
maiore inde animo pacis opera inchoata, quam quanta mole gesserat bella, ut non quietior populus domi esset, quam militiae3 fuisset;
Thereafter, works of peace were begun with a greater spirit than the scale of effort with which he had waged wars, so that the people were no more quiet at home than they had been on campaign;
nam et muro lapideo, cuius exordium operis Sabino bello turbatum erat, urbem, qua nondum munierat, cingere parat et infima urbis loca circa forum aliasque interiectas collibus convalles, quia ex planis locis haud facile evehebant aquas, cloacis fastigio in Tiberim ductis siccat et aream ad aedem in Capitolio Iovis, quam voverat bello Sabino, iam praesagiente animo futuram olim amplitudinem loci occupat4 fundamentis.
for he prepares both to encircle the city with a stone wall, where he had not yet fortified it—the beginning of which work had been interrupted by the Sabine war—and he drains the lowest places of the city around the Forum and other valleys lying between the hills, because they did not easily discharge the water from flat areas, by means of sewers directed down a slope into the Tiber, and the site for the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline, which he had vowed during the Sabine war, his mind already presaging the future grandeur of the place, he occupied with foundations.
- 1.38.1Sabinis
Dative of separation, used with the verb of taking away ademptum (adimere).
- 1.38.1deditosque Collatinos ita accipio eamque deditionis formulam esse
The verb accipio ("understand" or "receive the report") governs two accusative-with-infinitive clauses in indirect statement: deditos [esse] Collatinos and eam... esse.
- 1.38.5domi ... militiae
Both are locative cases, contrasting "at home (in peace)" and "on military service (in war)".
- 1.38.6parat et ... siccat et ... occupat
The structural backbone of the long sentence stretching from §1.38.6 to §1.38.7. With the implied subject (Tarquinius), three main verbs (parat, siccat, and occupat) are coordinated by et... et... et....