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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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After the resolution of the publicans' affair, the young Publius Licinius Crassus is elected Pontifex Maximus. Meanwhile, to address a severe shortage of recruits, the senate implements extraordinary enlistment measures through special commissioners, and a letter arrives from Sicily concerning the remnants of the disaster at Cannae.
hunc fraus publicanorum, deinde fraudem audacia protegens exitum habuit.1
The fraud of the publicani, and then their audacity protecting that fraud, had this outcome.
comitia inde pontifici maximo creando sunt habita. ea comitia novus pontifex M. Cornelius Cethegus habuit.
Thereupon, the elections for appointing a chief pontiff were held. The new pontiff, Marcus Cornelius Cethegus, conducted these elections.
tres ingenti certamine petierunt, Q. Fulvius Flaccus consul, qui et ante bis consul et censor fuerat, et T. Manlius Torquatus, et ipse duobus consulatibus et censura insignis, et P. Licinius Crassus, qui aedilitatem curulem petiturus erat.
Three candidates sought the office with intense rivalry: the consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, who had also previously been consul twice and censor; Titus Manlius Torquatus, himself also distinguished by two consulships and a censorship; and Publius Licinius Crassus, who was about to stand for the curule aedileship.
hic senes honoratosque iuvenis in eo certamine vicit. ante hunc intra centum annos et viginti nemo praeter P. Cornelium Calussam pontifex maximus creatus fuerat, qui sella curuli non sedisset.2
This young man defeated those elderly and honored men in that contest. Before him, within a hundred and twenty years, no one except Publius Cornelius Calussa had been elected chief pontiff without having sat in a curule chair.
consules dilectum cum aegre conficerent quod inopia iuniorum non facile in utrumque, ut et novae urbanae legiones et supplementum veteribus scribere tum, sufficiebat,3 senatus absistere eos incepto vetuit et triumuiros binos creari iussit, alteros qui citra, alteros qui ultra quinquagesimum lapidem in pagis forisque et conciliabulis omnem copiam ingenuorum inspicerent et, si qui roboris satis ad ferenda arma habere viderentur, etiamsi nondum militari aetate essent, milites facerent.
Since the consuls were conducting the levy with difficulty, because, owing to the scarcity of younger men, the supply was not easily sufficient for both purposes, namely, to enroll both new city legions and reinforcements for the old ones at that time, the senate forbade them to abandon the undertaking and ordered two boards of triumvirs to be appointed, one to inspect the whole supply of freeborn men within the fiftieth milestone, and the other beyond the fiftieth milestone, in the villages, market-towns, and meeting-places, and, if any should seem to have sufficient strength to bear arms, even if they were not yet of military age, they should enlist them as soldiers.
tribuni plebis, si iis videretur, ad populum ferrent, ut, qui minores septendecim annis sacramento dixissent, iis perinde stipendia procederent, ac si septendecim annorum aut maiores milites facti essent.4
The tribunes of the plebs, if they saw fit, should propose to the people that, for those who had taken the military oath when under seventeen years of age, their campaigns should count just as if they had been enlisted when seventeen years old or older.
ex hoc senatus consulto creati triumviri bini conquisitionem ingenuorum per agros habuerunt.
In accordance with this decree of the senate, the two boards of triumvirs having been appointed conducted the recruitment of freeborn men throughout the districts.
eodem tempore ex Sicilia litterae Marci Marcelli de postulatis militum, qui cum P. Lentulo militabant, in senatu recitatae sunt.
At the same time, a letter of Marcus Marcellus from Sicily concerning the demands of the soldiers who were serving under Publius Lentulus was read aloud in the senate.
Cannensis reliquiae cladis hic exercitus erat, relegatus in Siciliam, sicut ante dictum est ne ante Punici belli finem in Italiam reportarentur.
This army was the remnants of the disaster of Cannae, banished to Sicily, as has been said before, so that they should not be brought back to Italy before the end of the Punic War.
- 25.5.1hunc fraus publicanorum, deinde fraudem audacia protegens exitum habuit
The demonstrative adjective "hunc" (masculine accusative singular) modifies the noun "exitum" placed at the end of the clause, forming a classic hyperbaton. The subject is "fraus... deinde... audacia protegens".
- 25.5.4qui sella curuli non sedisset
The pluperfect subjunctive "sedisset" is used in a relative clause following the negative antecedent "nemo" to denote a characteristic or qualification in the past ("of such a kind that he had not held a curule office").
- 25.5.5cum aegre conficerent quod inopia iuniorum non facile in utrumque ... sufficiebat
The conjunction "cum" introduces a circumstantial or concessive clause with the subjunctive "conficerent". In contrast, the "quod" clause states an objective reason and thus takes the indicative imperfect "sufficiebat". The phrase "in utrumque" ("for both purposes") is explained by the subsequent "ut" clause ("ut et... et...").
- 25.5.8iis perinde stipendia procederent, ac si septendecim annorum aut maiores milites facti essent
"iis" (dative) serves as the antecedent of the preceding relative clause "qui... dixissent". The conjunction phrase "perinde... ac si" ("just as if") introduces an unreal conditional comparison, taking the pluperfect subjunctive "facti essent".