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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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The decemvirs resign their office, and the plebeians return to the Aventine in Rome, where they elect new tribunes under the presidency of the pontifex maximus and begin constitutional reforms.
facerent ut vellent1 permittentibus cunctis mox redituros se legati rebus perfectis adfirmant.
With the permission of all, telling them to do as they wished, the envoys declared that they would soon return when affairs were settled.
profecti cum mandata plebis patribus exposuissent, alii decemviri, quando quidem praeter spem ipsorum supplicii sui nulla mentio fieret, haud quicquam abnuere;
Having set out, when they had laid the demands of the plebs before the patricians, the other decemvirs, since indeed to their own surprise no mention was made of their punishment, did not refuse anything.
Appius, truci ingenio et invidia praecipua, odium in se aliorum suo in eos metiens odio “haud ignaro”2 inquit “imminet fortuna.
Appius, with his ferocious nature and being the object of special hatred, measuring the hatred of others toward himself by his own toward them, said: “Fortune threatens me, who am by no means ignorant of it.”
video, donec arma adversariis tradantur, differri adversus nos certamen. dandus invidiae est sanguis. nihil ne ego quidem moror, quo minus decemviratu abeam.”
”I see that the contest against us is deferred until arms are delivered to our adversaries. Blood must be given to hatred. I, indeed, delay nothing from resigning the decemvirate.”
factum senatus consultum, ut decemviri se primo quoque tempore magistratu abdicarent, Q. Furius pontifex maximus tribunos plebis crearet, et ne cui fraudi esset secessio militum plebisque.
A decree of the senate was passed, that the decemvirs should resign their office at the earliest possible moment, that Quintus Furius, the pontifex maximus, should create tribunes of the plebs, and that the secession of the soldiers and the plebs should not be to the detriment of any one.
his senatus consultis perfectis dimisso senatu decemviri prodeunt in contionem abdicantque se magistratu ingenti hominum laetitia. nuntiantur haec plebi.
These decrees of the senate having been completed and the senate dismissed, the decemvirs came forward into the assembly and resigned their office to the immense joy of the people. This was announced to the plebs.
legatos quidquid in urbe hominum supererat prosequitur. huic multitudini laeta alia turba ex castris occurrit. congratulantur libertatem concordiamque civitati restitutam.
All the people remaining in the city followed the envoys. This multitude was met by another joyful crowd from the camp. They congratulated one another that liberty and harmony had been restored to the state.
legati pro contione: “quod bonum, faustum felixque sit vobis reique publicae, redite in patriam ad penates, coniuges liberosque vestros; sed, qua hic modestia fuistis, ubi nullius ager in tot rerum usu necessario tantae multitudini est violatus, eam modestiam ferte in urbem!3 in Aventinum ite, unde profecti estis!
The envoys spoke before the assembly: “May it be good, auspicious, and fortunate for you and the commonwealth; return to your native land, to your household gods, your wives and children; but carry into the city that same moderation which you have shown here, where, in the use of so many necessary things, the field of no one was violated by so great a multitude! Go to the Aventine, whence you set out!
ibi felici loco, ubi prima initia inchoastis libertatis vestrae, tribunos plebi creabitis. praesto erit pontifex maximus, qui comitia habeat.”
There, in that fortunate place, where you made the first beginnings of your liberty, you shall elect tribunes for the plebs. The pontifex maximus will be present to hold the assembly.”
ingens adsensus alacritasque cuncta adprobantium fuit. convellunt inde signa profectique Romam certant cum obviis gaudio. armati per urbem silentio in Aventinum perveniunt.
There was a huge assent and eagerness of all approving. They then plucked up the standards, and setting out for Rome, they vied in joy with those who met them. Armed, they reached the Aventine in silence through the city.
ibi extemplo pontifice maximo comitia habente tribunos plebis creaverunt, omnium primum L. Verginium, inde L. Icilium et P. Numitorium, avunculum Vergini, auctores secessionis, tum C. Sicinium, progeniem eius, quem primum tribunum plebis creatum in Sacro monte proditum memoriae est, et M. Duillium, qui tribunatum insignem ante decemviros creatos gesserat nec in decemviralibus certaminibus plebi defuerat. spe deinde magis quam meritis electi M. Titinius, M. Pomponius, C. Apronius, P. Villius, C. Oppius.
There immediately, with the pontifex maximus holding the assembly, they elected tribunes of the plebs, first of all Lucius Verginius, then Lucius Icilius and Publius Numitorius, the uncle of Verginius, the authors of the secession, then Gaius Sicinius, the descendant of him who is recorded to have been the first tribune of the plebs elected on the Sacred Mount, and Marcus Duillius, who had held a distinguished tribuneship before the creation of the decemvirs and had not been wanting to the plebs in the decemviral contests. Then, chosen rather on hope than on merits, Marcus Titinius, Marcus Pomponius, Gaius Apronius, Publius Villius, Gaius Oppius.
tribunatu inito L. Icilius extemplo plebem rogavit, et plebs scivit, ne cui fraudi esset secessio ab decemviris facta.
Having entered upon the tribuneship, Lucius Icilius immediately proposed to the plebs, and the plebs resolved, that the secession made from the decemvirs should not be to the detriment of any one.
confestim de consulibus creandis cum provocatione M. Duillius rogationem pertulit. ea omnia in pratis Flaminiis concilio plebis acta, quem nunc circum Flaminium appellant.4
Immediately, Marcus Duillius carried a proposal concerning the creation of consuls with the right of appeal. All these things were transacted in the Flaminian meadows in the assembly of the plebs, which they now call the Flaminian Circus.
- 3.54.1facerent ut vellent
Subjunctive representing a command in indirect discourse. Following the historical present main verb adfirmant, it is in the imperfect tense due to the sequence of tenses. In direct discourse, this would correspond to the imperative facite ut vultis or the independent subjunctive faciatis ut velitis.
- 3.54.3haud ignaro
A dative adjective modifying the omitted pronoun mihi (referring to Appius himself), which depends on imminet (which takes the dative to mean 'threaten' or 'loom over'). Literally: 'Fortune threatens me, who am by no means ignorant [of it].'
- 3.54.8sed, qua hic modestia fuistis... eam modestiam ferte in urbem!
A correlative construction where the relative clause containing the ablative of quality qua modestia precedes, and its antecedent modestiam is repeated in the main clause as eam modestiam. Literally: 'but that moderation, with which moderation you have behaved here, carry into the city!'
- 3.54.15quem nunc circum Flaminium appellant
The relative pronoun quem agrees in gender and number not with its logical antecedent, the neuter plural pratis (or the neuter singular concilio), but with the predicate noun within the relative clause, the masculine singular circum, by attraction.