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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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On the day following the speeches, the tribunes withdrew their veto under pressure from the protesting women, and the Oppian law was repealed. Immediately after, the consul Marcus Porcius Cato set sail with his fleet for his expedition to Hispania.
haec cum contra legem proque lege dicta essent, aliquanto maior frequentia mulierum postero die sese in publicum effudit, unoque agmine omnes Brutorum1 ianuas obsederunt, qui collegarum rogationi intercedebant, nec ante abstiterunt, quam remissa intercessio ab tribunis est.
When these speeches had been made against the law and for the law, a somewhat larger crowd of women poured out into public on the next day, and in one body they besieged all the doors of the Brutuses, who were vetoing the proposal of their colleagues, nor did they withdraw until the veto was withdrawn by the tribunes.
nulla deinde dubitatio fuit, quin omnes tribus legem abrogarent.2 viginti annis post abrogata est quam lata.3
There was then no doubt that all the tribes would repeal the law. It was repealed twenty years after it had been passed.
M. Porcius consul, postquam abrogata lex Oppia est, extemplo viginti quinque navibus longis, quarum quinque sociorum erant, ad Lunae portum profectus est eodem exercitu convenire iusso4 et edicto per oram maritimam misso navibus omnis generis contractis ab Luna proficiscens edixit, ut ad portum Pyrenaei sequerentur; inde se frequenti classe ad hostis iturum.
The consul Marcus Porcius, after the Oppian law was repealed, immediately set out for the port of Luna with twenty-five warships, of which five belonged to the allies, having ordered the same army to assemble there, and having sent an edict along the sea coast and assembled ships of every kind, departing from Luna, he ordered that they should follow to the port of the Pyrenees; from there, he said, he would go against the enemy with a full fleet.
praetervecti Ligustinos montes sinumque Gallicum ad diem, quam dixerat, convenerunt. inde Rhodam ventum,5 et praesidium Hispanorum, quod in castello erat, vi deiectum. ab Rhoda secundo vento Emporias perventum. ibi copiae omnes praeter socios navales in terram expositae.
Sailing past the Ligurian mountains and the Gallic gulf, they assembled on the day he had appointed. From there they came to Rhoda, and the garrison of the Hispanians, which was in the fort, was dislodged by force. From Rhoda, with a favorable wind, they reached Emporiae. There all the troops except the naval allies were landed.
- 34.8.2Brutorum
Genitive plural of the proper name Brutus. Here it refers to the houses of the two tribunes of the plebs from the same family, Marcus Publicius Brutus and Publius Publicius Brutus, who were vetoing the proposal.
- 34.8.3nulla deinde dubitatio fuit, quin omnes tribus legem abrogarent
A quin clause with the imperfect subjunctive (abrogarent), introduced by a negative expression of doubt (nulla dubitatio fuit), expressing certainty ('there was no doubt that they would repeal').
- 34.8.3viginti annis post abrogata est quam lata
A structure where the ablative of degree of difference, viginti annis ('by twenty years'), is inserted between post and quam (meaning 'after'). The verb est or erat is omitted after lata; the phrase means 'it was repealed twenty years after it had been passed'.
- 34.8.4eodem exercitu convenire iusso
An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun exercitu and the passive participle iusso. The infinitive convenire depends on iusso as a complement, and eodem is an adverb meaning 'to the same place'.
- 34.8.6ventum
An impersonal passive expression using the perfect passive third-person singular neuter of the intransitive verb venire (ventum est). It indicates that 'they came' or 'arrival was made' at Rhoda without specifying a personal subject.