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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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Minucius and Nautius became consuls, and while the domestic struggles continued, the Aequi broke the treaty and ravaged Roman territory; Roman ambassadors were sent but insulted, leading the senate to decree military action.
L. Minucius inde et C. Nautius consules facti duas residuas anni prioris causas exceperunt.
Lucius Minucius and Gaius Nautius were then elected consuls and took up the two remaining issues of the previous year.
eodem modo consules legem, tribuni iudicium de Volscio inpediebant;
In the same manner, the consuls obstructed the law, and the tribunes obstructed the trial of Volscius;
sed in quaestoribus novis maior vis, maior auctoritas erat. cum M. Valerio, Mani filio, Volesi nepote, quaestor erat T. Quinctius Capitolinus, qui ter consul fuerat. is quoniam neque Quinctiae familiae Caeso neque rei publicae maximus iuvenum restitui posset, falsum testem, qui dicendae causae1 innoxio potestatem ademisset, iusto ac pio bello persequebatur.
but in the new quaestors there was greater power and greater authority. Along with Marcus Valerius, son of Manius, grandson of Volesus, Titus Quinctius Capitolinus, who had been consul three times, was quaestor. Since neither could Caeso be restored to the Quinctian family nor the greatest of young men to the republic, he pursued with a just and dutiful war the false witness who had deprived an innocent man of the opportunity of pleading his cause.
cum Verginius maxime ex tribunis de lege ageret, duum mensum spatium consulibus datum est ad inspiciendam legem, ut, cum edocuissent populum, quid fraudis occultae2 ferretur, sinerent deinde suffragium inire. hoc intervalli datum res tranquillas in urbe fecit.
While Verginius among the tribunes was most active concerning the law, a space of two months was granted to the consuls for examining the law, so that, when they had fully explained to the people what hidden fraud was carried in it, they might then allow them to proceed to vote. This interval being granted made things quiet in the city.
nec diuturnam quietem Aequi dederunt, qui rupto foedere, quod ictum erat priore anno cum Romanis, imperium ad Gracchum Cloelium deferunt; is tum longe princeps in Aequis erat.
Nor did the Aequi grant a lasting peace; breaking the treaty which had been concluded with the Romans in the previous year, they conferred the command upon Gracchus Cloelius, who was then by far the leading man among the Aequi.
Graccho duce in Labicanum agrum, inde in Tusculanum hostili populatione veniunt plenique praedae in Algido castra locant. in ea castra Q. Fabius, P. Volumnius, A. Postumius legati ab Roma venerunt questum iniurias et ex foedere res repetitum.3 eos Aequorum imperator, quae mandata habeant ab senatu Romano, ad quercum iubet dicere; se alia interim acturum. quercus, ingens arbor, praetorio imminebat, cuius umbra opaca sedes erat. tum ex legatis unus abiens “et haec” inquit “sacrata quercus et quidquid deorum est audiant foedus a vobis ruptum nostrisque et nunc querellis adsint et mox armis, cum deorum hominumque simul violata iura exsequemur.” Romam ut rediere legati, senatus iussit alterum consulem contra Gracchum in Algidum exercitum ducere, alteri populationem finium Aequorum provinciam dedit. tribuni suo more impedire4 dilectum et forsitan ad ultimum impedissent; sed novus subito additus terror est.
Under the leadership of Gracchus, they entered the Labican territory, and thence the Tusculan territory with hostile devastation, and, full of plunder, pitched their camp on Mount Algidus. To that camp came Quintus Fabius, Publius Volumnius, and Aulus Postumius as ambassadors from Rome, to complain of the injuries and to demand restitution according to the treaty. The general of the Aequi ordered them to deliver to the oak tree what instructions they had from the Roman senate, saying that he meanwhile would attend to other matters. The oak, a huge tree, overhung the general’s tent, and its thick shade formed a seat. Then one of the ambassadors, as he was departing, said, “Let both this sacred oak and whatever there is of gods hear that the treaty has been broken by you, and let them be present now to our complaints, and soon to our arms, when we shall avenge the violated laws of both gods and men.” When the ambassadors returned to Rome, the senate ordered one consul to lead an army to Mount Algidus against Gracchus, and gave to the other the devastation of the territory of the Aequi as his province. The tribunes, in their usual manner, obstructed the levy, and perhaps would have obstructed it to the end; but a new terror was suddenly added.
- 3.25.3dicendae causae
While the dative innoxio is the indirect object of ademisset, dicendae causae is a gerundive construction in the genitive case modifying the direct object potestatem, defining the opportunity or right of pleading one's cause.
- 3.25.4quid fraudis occultae
The phrase fraudis occultae is a partitive genitive depending on the neuter pronoun quid, which acts as the subject of the indirect question quid ... ferretur (literally, 'what of hidden fraud was carried').
- 3.25.6questum ... repetitum
These are accusative supines in -um expressing purpose, used in conjunction with the verb of motion venerunt ('to complain' and 'to demand restitution').
- 3.25.9impedire
This is a historical infinitive used with the subject tribuni to vividly describe a past ongoing action (equivalent to an imperfect indicative), contrasting with the subsequent subjunctive impedissent after forsitan.