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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 · 2026-10-30
At Rome, the proposal to abrogate Marcellus's command is debated at the Flaminian Circus, but he wins overwhelming support and is re-elected consul. Additionally, the senate addresses the threatened defection of Etruria, the peace embassy from Tarentum, and the legal eligibility of the newly elected aedile Servilius.
actum de imperio Marcelli in circo Flaminio est1 ingenti concursu plebisque et omnium ordinum;
The question of Marcellus’s command was discussed in the Flaminian Circus before a vast concourse of the plebs and of all classes.
accusavitque tribunus plebis non Marcellum modo sed omnem nobilitatem: fraude eorum et cunctatione fieri,2 ut Hannibal decimum iam annum Italiam provinciam habeat, diutius ibi quam Carthagine vixerit.
And the tribune of the plebs accused not only Marcellus but the entire nobility, saying that it was by their treachery and delay that Hannibal now for the tenth year held Italy as his province, having lived there longer than in Carthage;
habere fructum imperii prorogati Marcello populum Romanum: bis caesum exercitum eius aestiva Venusiae sub tectis agere.
that the Roman people were enjoying the fruit of Marcellus’s prolonged command, namely, that his twice-beaten army was spending the summer under cover at Venusia.
hanc tribuni orationem ita obruit Marcellus commemoratione rerum suarum, ut non rogatio solum de imperio eius abrogando antiquaretur, sed postero die consulem eum ingenti consensu centuriae omnes crearent.
Marcellus so overwhelmed this speech of the tribune by the recital of his own achievements that not only was the proposal to abrogate his command rejected, but on the following day all the centuries with immense consensus elected him consul.
additur conlega T. Quinctius Crispinus, qui tum praetor erat. postero die praetores creati P. Licinius Crassus Dives pontifex maximus, P. Licinius Varus, Sex. Iulius Caesar, Q. Claudius Flamen.
As his colleague was added Titus Quinctius Crispinus, who was then praetor. On the next day the praetors were elected: Publius Licinius Crassus Dives, the pontifex maximus, Publius Licinius Varus, Sextus Iulius Caesar, and Quintus Claudius Flamen.
comitiorum ipsorum diebus sollicita civitas de Etruriae defectione fuit.
During the very days of the elections, the state was anxious about the defection of Etruria.
principium eius rei ab Arretinis fieri C. Calpurnius scripserat, qui eam provinciam pro praetore obtinebat. itaque confestim eo missus Marcellus consul designatus, qui rem inspiceret ac, si digna videretur,3 exercitu accito bellum ex Apulia in Etruriam transferret. eo metu conpressi Etrusci quieverunt.
Gaius Calpurnius, who held that province as propraetor, had written that the beginning of this movement was being made by the Arretines. Therefore, Marcellus, the consul-elect, was immediately sent there to investigate the matter and, if it seemed serious enough, to summon his army and transfer the war from Apulia to Etruria. Restrained by this fear, the Etruscans remained quiet.
Tarentinorum legatis pacem petentibus cum libertate ac legibus suis responsum ab senatu est, ut redirent, cum Fabius consul Romam venisset. ludi et Romani et plebei eo anno in singulos dies instaurati. aediles curules fuere L. Cornelius Caudinus et Ser. Sulpicius Galba, plebei C. Servilius et Q. Caecilius Metellus.
To the envoys of the Tarentines who were asking for peace along with their liberty and laws, the senate replied that they should return when the consul Fabius had come to Rome. Both the Roman and the plebeian games were renewed for one day each in that year. The curule aediles were Lucius Cornelius Caudinus and Servius Sulpicius Galba; the plebeian aediles were Gaius Servilius and Quintus Caecilius Metellus.
Servilium negabant iure aut tribunum plebis fuisse aut aedilem esse,4 quod patrem eius, quem triumuirum agrarium occisum a Bois circa Mutinam esse opinio per decem annos fuerat, vivere atque in hostium potestate esse satis constabat.
People denied that Servilius had legally been either a tribune of the plebs or was now an aedile, because it was sufficiently established that his father, who for ten years had been believed to have been killed as an agrarian triumvir by the Boii near Mutina, was alive and in the power of the enemy.
- 27.21.1actum de imperio Marcelli ... est
This is an impersonal passive construction using actum est with the preposition de (+ ablative), meaning 'proceedings were held concerning the command of Marcellus' or 'the question of Marcellus's command was discussed.'
- 27.21.2fraude eorum et cunctatione fieri
This is an accusative with infinitive construction representing indirect speech. The infinitive fieri is used impersonally (or taking the following ut clause as its subject), meaning 'it was happening through their treachery and delay [that...].'
- 27.21.7si digna videretur
The imperfect subjunctive videretur is due to the sequence of tenses after the past main verb missus [est]. The adjective digna (worthy) is used here in the sense of 'deemed sufficiently important or serious' to justify summoning the army.
- 27.21.10Servilium negabant iure aut tribunum plebis fuisse aut aedilem esse
The verb negare means 'to say that... not.' The legal background is that if his father was still alive and held by the enemy, his paternal authority (patria potestas) had not legally terminated (which would have happened if he had died). Since the father was of patrician status, the son, still being under his father's power, could not legally transfer to the plebeian status (transitio ad plebem) required to hold the offices of tribune of the plebs or plebeian aedile.