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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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Domestic affairs in Rome are described. It reports the creation of the tresviri epulones, disputes over the collection of unpaid taxes from priests, the election of new consuls and praetors, the distribution of grain, and the celebration of various games.
Romae eo primum anno tresviri epulones facti C. Licinius Lucullus tribunus plebis, qui legem de creandis iis tulerat, et P. Manlius et P. Porcius Laeca. iis triumviris item ut pontificibus lege datum est togae praetextae habendae1 ius.
In Rome, in that year for the first time, three-man banquet commissioners were created: Gaius Licinius Lucullus, a tribune of the plebs, who had proposed the law for creating them, and Publius Manlius and Publius Porcius Laeca. To these triumvirs, just as to the pontiffs, the right to wear the toga praetexta was granted by law.
sed magnum certamen cum omnibus sacerdotibus eo anno fuit quaestoribus urbanis, Q. Fabio Labeoni et L. Aurelio.
But in that year there was a great dispute between the urban quaestors, Quintus Fabius Labeo and Lucius Aurelius, and all the priests.
pecunia opus erat, quod ultimam pensionem pecuniae in bellum collatae persolvi placuerat privatis.
Money was needed, because it had been resolved that the last installment of the money contributed for the war should be paid back to private individuals.
quaestores ab auguribus pontificibusque quod stipendium per bellum non contulissent petebant. ab sacerdotibus tribuni plebis nequiquam appellati,2 omniumque annorum, per quos non dederant, exactum est.
The quaestors demanded from the augurs and pontiffs the contribution which they had not paid during the war. The tribunes of the plebs were appealed to in vain by the priests, and the money was exacted for all the years during which they had not paid.
eodem anno duo mortui pontifices, novique in eorum locum suffecti, M. Marcellus consul in locum C. Semproni Tuditani, qui praetor in Hispania decesserat, et L.3 Valerius Flaccus in locum M. Corneli Cethegi. et Q. Fabius Maximus augur mortuus est admodum adulescens, priusquam ullum magistratum caperet; nec eo anno augur in eius locum est suffectus.
In the same year two pontiffs died, and new ones were substituted in their place: the consul Marcus Marcellus in place of Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus, who had died while praetor in Spain, and Lucius Valerius Flaccus in place of Marcus Cornelius Cethegus. Also, Quintus Fabius Maximus, an augur, died at a very early age, before he had held any magistracy; nor was any augur substituted in his place in that year.
comitia inde consularia habita a M. Marcello consule. creati consules L. Valerius Flaccus et M. Porcius Cato. praetores inde facti Cn. Manlius Volso, Ap. Claudius Nero, P. Porcius Laeca, C. Fabricius Luscinus, C. Atinius Labeo, P. Manlius.
After that, the consular comitia were held by the consul Marcus Marcellus. Lucius Valerius Flaccus and Marcus Porcius Cato were elected consuls. Then Gnaeus Manlius Vulso, Appius Claudius Nero, Publius Porcius Laeca, Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, Gaius Atinius Labeo, and Publius Manlius were made praetors.
eo anno aediles curules, M. Fulvius Nobilior et C. Flaminius, tritici deciens centena milia binis aeris4 populo discripserunt. id C. Flamini honoris causa ipsius patrisque advexerant Siculi Romam; Flaminius gratiam eius communicaverat cum collega.
In that year, the curule aediles, Marcus Fulvius Nobilior and Gaius Flaminius, distributed one million modii of wheat to the people at two asses per modius. The Sicilians had brought this to Rome out of respect for Gaius Flaminius himself and his father; Flaminius shared the credit for this with his colleague.
ludi Romani et apparati magnifice sunt et ter toti instaurati aediles plebis Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus et C. Scribonius Curio, multos pecuarios ad populi iudicium adduxerunt;
The Roman Games were both magnificently prepared and thrice repeated in their entirety. The plebeian aediles, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Gaius Scribonius Curio, brought many graziers to trial before the people;
tres ex his condemnati sunt; ex eorum multaticia pecunia aedem in insula Fauni fecerunt.
three of these were condemned; with their fine money, they built a temple of Faunus on the island.
ludi plebei per biduum instaurati, et epulum fuit ludorum causa.
The Plebeian Games were repeated for two days, and there was a feast because of the games.
- 33.42.1togae praetextae habendae
A gerundive construction consisting of the noun togae praetextae and the gerundive habendae, agreeing in gender, number, and case (genitive singular). It modifies ius (the right of wearing the toga praetexta).
- 33.42.4tribuni plebis nequiquam appellati
The verb sunt is omitted from the perfect passive appellati [sunt]. Here, appellare is used in the legal sense of "to appeal to" or "to implore the protection of" a magistrate, accompanied by the agent ab sacerdotibus (by the priests), meaning that the priests appealed to the tribunes of the plebs in vain.
- 33.42.5et L.
The division between section 5 and section 6 occurs in the middle of a name, between the praenomen L. (at the end of §33.42.5) and the nomen Valerius (at the start of §33.42.6). Syntactically, the verb from the previous clause, suffecti [sunt], continues here, and the sentence is to be understood as L. Valerius Flaccus [suffectus est] in locum M. Corneli Cethegi.
- 33.42.8binis aeris
A combination of the distributive numeral binis (two each) in the ablative and the plural of aes (bronze coin/as) in the ablative of price, forming a distributive price expression meaning "at two asses per modius".