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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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Overcome by the rebukes of his colleague Gracchus and others, the tribune Aburius withdrew his veto, allowing the senate to decree a triumph for Fulvius. To avoid interference from the consul Aemilius, Fulvius brought forward the date of his triumph and celebrated it with an immense amount of spoils.
undique omnes alii deprecari tribunum, alii castigare.1 Ti. Gracchi collegae plurimum oratio movit.
On all sides, some entreated the tribune, others rebuked him. The speech of his colleague, Ti. Gracchus, moved him most of all.
ne suas quidem simultates pro magistratu exercere boni exempli2 esse: alienarum vero simultatum tribunum plebis cognitorem fieri turpe et indignum collegii eius potestate et sacratis legibus esse.
Gracchus said that it was not of good example to prosecute even one’s own feuds while in office; but that for a tribune of the plebs to become the agent of other men’s feuds was shameful and unworthy of the power of that college and of the sacred laws.
suo quemque iudicio3 et homines odisse aut diligere et res probare aut improbare debere, non pendere ex alterius vultu ac nutu nec alieni momentis animi circumagi, adstipularique irato consuli tribunum plebei; et quid privatim M. Aemilius mandaverit, meminisse, tribunatum sibi a populo Romano mandatum oblivisci, et mandatum pro auxilio ac libertate privatorum, non pro consulari regno.
That everyone ought, by his own judgment, both to hate or love men and to approve or disapprove of things, not to depend on the face and nod of another, nor to be turned about by the impulses of another’s mind; yet a tribune of the plebs was backing an angry consul, and what M. Aemilius had privately commanded, he remembered, while he forgot that the tribunate had been entrusted to him by the Roman people, and entrusted for the help and liberty of private citizens, not for consular tyranny.
ne hoc quidem cernere eum, fore ut4 memoriae ac posteritati mandetur eiusdem collegii alterum e duobus tribunis plebis suas inimicitias remisisse rei publicae, alterum alienas et mandatas exercuisse.
That he did not even perceive this, that it would be handed down to memory and posterity that of two tribunes of the plebs of the same college, one had given up his own enmities for the sake of the republic, while the other had prosecuted those of another, and those too entrusted to him.
his victus castigationibus tribunus cum templo excessisset, referente Ser. Sulpicio praetore triumphus M. Fulvio est decretus.
When the tribune, overcome by these rebukes, had departed from the temple, on the motion of the praetor Ser. Sulpicius, a triumph was decreed to M. Fulvius.
is cum gratias patribus conscriptis egisset, adiecit ludos magnos se Iovi optimo maximo eo die quo Ambraciam cepisset vovisse; in eam rem sibi centum pondo auri a civitatibus conlatum;
When he had returned thanks to the conscript fathers, he added that he had vowed great games to Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the day on which he had captured Ambracia; that for this purpose one hundred pounds of gold had been contributed to him by the states;
petere ut ex ea pecunia, quam in triumpho latam in aerario positurus esset, id aurum secerni iuberent. senatus pontificum collegium consuli iussit, num omne id aurum in ludos consumi necesse esset.
and he requested that they should order this gold to be set apart from that money which, after being carried in the triumph, he was about to deposit in the treasury. The senate ordered the college of pontiffs to be consulted, whether it was necessary that all that gold should be consumed on the games.
cum pontifices negassent ad religionem pertinere, quanta impensa in ludos fieret, senatus Fulvio quantum impenderet permisit, dum ne summam octoginta milium excederet.
When the pontiffs replied that it did not concern religion how great an expense was incurred on the games, the senate permitted Fulvius to spend as much as he pleased, provided that it did not exceed the sum of eighty thousand sesterces.
triumphare mense Ianuario statuerat: sed cum audisset consulem M. Aemilium,5 litteris M. Aburii tribuni plebis acceptis de remissa intercessione, ipsum ad impediendum triumphum Romam venientem aegrum in via substitisse, ne plus in triumpho certaminum quam in bello haberet, praetulit triumphi diem.
He had resolved to triumph in the month of January; but when he had heard that the consul M. Aemilius, having received a letter from M. Aburius, the tribune of the plebs, concerning the withdrawal of his veto, was himself coming to Rome to prevent the triumph, but had stopped on the way due to illness, in order that he might not have more conflicts in his triumph than in the war, he brought forward the day of his triumph.
triumphavit ante diem decimum Kal. Ianuarias de Aetolis et de Cephallania.
He triumphed on the tenth day before the Kalends of January over the Aetolians and Cephallania.
aureae coronae centum duodecim pondo ante currum latae sunt; argenti pondo milia octoginta tria, auri pondo ducenta quadraginta tria, tetrachma Attica centum octodecim milia, Philippei nummi duodecim milia trecenti viginti duo, signa aenea septingenta octoginta quinque, signa marmorea ducenta triginta, arma tela cetera spolia hostium, magnus numerus, ad hoc catapultae, ballistae, tormenta omnis generis; duces aut Aetoli et Cephallanes aut regii ab Antiocho ibi relicti ad viginti septem.
Golden crowns of one hundred and twelve pounds weight were carried before his chariot; eighty-three thousand pounds of silver, two hundred and forty-three pounds of gold, one hundred and eighteen thousand Attic tetradrachms, twelve thousand three hundred and twenty-two Philippei coins, seven hundred and eighty-five bronze statues, two hundred and thirty marble statues, arms, weapons, and other spoils of the enemy in great number, besides catapults, ballistae, and artillery of every kind; about twenty-seven commanders, either Aetolians and Cephallanians or royal officers left there by Antiochus, were led.
multos eo die, priusquam in urbem inveheretur, in circo Flaminio tribunos praefectos equites centuriones, Romanos sociosque, donis militaribus donavit. militibus ex praeda vicenos quinos denarios divisit, duplex centurioni, triplex equiti.
On that day, before he rode into the city, in the Circus Flaminius he presented many tribunes, prefects, horsemen, and centurions, both Romans and allies, with military rewards. To the soldiers he distributed out of the booty twenty-five denarii each, double to a centurion, triple to a horseman.
- 39.5.1deprecari... castigare
These are historical infinitives, functioning as imperfect indicatives. The subject is the general omnes, which is then distributed by the appositive phrase alii... alii.
- 39.5.2boni exempli
A genitive of quality/description, functioning as a predicate complement meaning 'to be of a good example' or 'to set a good precedent'.
- 39.5.3suo quemque iudicio
The accusative quemque ('each person') is the subject accusative of the infinitive debere, while suo iudicio ('by his own judgment') functions as an ablative of means or manner.
- 39.5.5fore ut
A periphrastic future infinitive construction consisting of fore (future infinitive of esse) and an ut clause with the subjunctive, expressing a future passive meaning ('that it would be handed down').
- 39.5.11sed cum audisset consulem M. Aemilium ...
In this long sentence, the main verb is praetulit (subject: Fulvius) at the end. Within the clause introduced by cum audisset ('when he had heard'), an accusative-with-infinitive construction (indirect statement) is embedded, where consulem M. Aemilium (modified by ipsum and the participle venientem) is the subject accusative and substitisse is the infinitive. ad impediendum is a gerundive construction expressing purpose.