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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 young man refuses initiation into the Bacchic rites and is expelled from home by his mother and stepfather, prompting him to report the matter to the consul on his aunt's advice. The consul verifies the aunt's character and summons her to inquire about the youth.
postquam domum venit, et mater mentionem intulit, quid eo die, quid deinceps ceteris, quae ad sacra pertinerent, faciendum esset, negat eorum se quicquam facturum, nec initiari sibi in animo esse.
After he returned home, and his mother mentioned what was to be done on that day, and successively on the other days, regarding the rites, he declared that he would do none of these things, and that he had no intention of being initiated.
aderat sermoni vitricus. confestim mulier exclamat Hispalae concubitu calere eum decem noctes non posse;1 illius excetrae delenimentis et venenis imbutum nec parentis nec vitrici nec deorum verecundiam habere. iurgantes hinc mater, hinc vitricus cum quattuor eum servis domo exegerunt.
His stepfather was present at this conversation. Immediately the woman cried out that he could not keep away from Hispala’s embrace for ten nights, and that, infected with the charms and poisons of that viper, he had respect neither for his mother, nor his stepfather, nor the gods. Scolding him, the mother on one side and the stepfather on the other, with the help of four slaves, drove him out of the house.
adulescens inde ad Aebutiam se amitam contulit, causamque ei, cur esset a matre eiectus, narravit, deinde ex auctoritate eius postero die ad consulem Postumium arbitris remotis rem detulit.
From there the young man betook himself to his aunt Aebutia, and told her the reason why he had been cast out by his mother; then, on her advice, the next day he laid the matter before the consul Postumius, after all witnesses had been removed.
consul post diem tertium redire ad se iussum dimisit; ipse Sulpiciam gravem feminam, socrum suam, percunctatus est, ecquam anum Aebutiam ex Aventino nosset.
The consul dismissed him with orders to return to him after the third day; he himself asked his mother-in-law, Sulpicia, a lady of grave character, whether she knew an elderly woman named Aebutia from the Aventine.
cum ea nosse probam et antiqui moris feminam respondisset, opus esse sibi ea conventa2 dixit: mitteret nuntium ad eam, ut veniret.
When she replied that she knew her to be an honorable woman of the old school, he said that he had need of an interview with her, and asked Sulpicia to send a messenger to her, requesting her to come.
Aebutia accita ad Sulpiciam venit, et consul paulo post, velut forte intervenisset, sermonem de Aebutio fratris eius filio infert.
Aebutia, having been summoned, came to Sulpicia, and a little later the consul, as if he had happened to come in by chance, introduced a conversation about Aebutius, the son of her brother.
lacrimae mulieri obortae, et miserari casum adulescentis coepit, qui spoliatus fortunis, a quibus minime oporteret,3 apud se tunc esset, eiectus a matre, quod probus adulescens — dii propitii essent — obscenis, ut fama esset, sacris initiari nollet.
Tears welled up in the woman’s eyes, and she began to pity the misfortune of the young man, who, despoiled of his fortune by those from whom it was least fitting, was then staying at her house, having been cast out by his mother because a well-behaved youth — may the gods be propitious — refused to be initiated into rites which, as report had it, were obscene.
- 39.11.2Hispalae concubitu calere eum decem noctes non posse
An accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction in indirect speech. The subject of calere (to be hot, infatuated) is the accusative eum, accompanied by the ablative of cause Hispalae concubitu. decem noctes is an accusative of duration of time.
- 39.11.5ea conventa
Based on the impersonal construction opus est (there is need of) requiring the ablative, this is a noun phrase where the pronoun ea (feminine singular ablative referring to Aebutia) agrees with the perfect participle conventa in the ablative, functioning as a verbal noun expression meaning 'meeting her.'
- 39.11.7a quibus minime oporteret
The antecedent to the ablative of agent a quibus (the parents who ought to protect the youth) is omitted. Additionally, a passive infinitive like spoliari is understood with the impersonal verb oporteret in reference to the preceding spoliatus, meaning 'by those by whom it was least fitting [for him to be despoiled].'