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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 anger of the soldiers boils over due to Postumius's harsh words and cruel punishments, leading to his assassination. While the senate attempts to launch an inquiry into the murder, the tribunes veto it due to the conflict between patricians and plebeians, returning the state to an interregnum.
perlata haec vox Postumi ad milites multo in castris maiorem indignationem movit: praedaene interceptorem fraudatoremque etiam malum minari militibus?1
This statement of Postumius, when carried to the soldiers, moved much greater indignation in the camp: was a stealer and cheater of their plunder even threatening his soldiers with punishment?
itaque cum fremitus aperte esset et quaestor P. Sestius eadem violentia coerceri putaret seditionem posse, qua mota erat, misso ad vociferantem quendam militem lictore, cum inde clamor et iurgium oreretur, saxo ictus turba excedit insuper increpante, qui vulneraverat, habere quaestorem, quod imperator esset militibus minatus.2
Therefore, when the murmuring was open, and the quaestor Publius Sestius thought that the mutiny could be suppressed by the same violence by which it had been excited, having sent a lictor to a certain soldier who was shouting, when a clamor and altercation arose from this, he was struck by a stone and withdrew from the crowd, while the one who had wounded him shouted in addition, that the quaestor had what the general had threatened to the soldiers.
ad hunc tumultum accitus Postumius asperiora omnia fecit acerbis quaestionibus, crudelibus suppliciis. postremo, cum modum irae nullum faceret, ad vociferationem eorum, quos necari sub crate iusserat, concursu facto ipse ad interpellantis poenam vecors de tribunali decurrit.
Summoned to this tumult, Postumius made everything harsher by severe inquiries and cruel punishments. Finally, when he set no limit to his anger, a crowd having gathered at the outcries of those whom he had ordered to be put to death under a hurdle, he himself, out of his mind, ran down from the tribunal to punish those who interrupted.
ibi cum submoventes passim lictores. centurionesque vexarent turbam, eo indignatio erupit, ut tribunus militum ab exercitu suo lapidibus cooperiretur.3
There, while the lictors and centurions, clearing the way in every direction, were handling the crowd roughly, the indignation broke out to such a degree that the military tribune was covered with stones by his own army.
quod tam atrox facinus postquam est Romam nuntiatum, tribunis militum de morte collegae per senatum quaestiones decernentibus tribuni plebis intercedebant. sed ea contentio ex certamine alio pendebat, quod cura incesserat patres, ne metu quaestionum plebs iraque tribunos militum ex plebe crearet, tendebantque summa ope, ut consules crearentur.
After this so atrocious a crime was reported to Rome, while the military tribunes were decreeing inquiries into the death of their colleague through the senate, the tribunes of the plebs vetoed them. But that contention depended on another conflict, because a concern had seized the patricians lest the plebs, from fear and anger of the inquiries, should elect military tribunes from the plebs, and they were striving with all their might that consuls should be elected.
cum senatus consultum fieri tribuni plebis non paterentur, iidem intercederent consularibus comitiis, res ad interregnum rediit. victoria deinde penes patres fuit.
Since the tribunes of the plebs would not suffer a decree of the senate to be made, and the same vetoed the consular elections, the matter returned to an interregnum. The victory then remained with the patricians.
- 4.50.1praedaene interceptorem fraudatoremque etiam malum minari militibus?
An accusative with infinitive construction used independently in an emotional or rhetorical question. The subject accusative is interceptorem fraudatoremque and the infinitive is minari. The enclitic -ne is attached to the first word.
- 4.50.3habere quaestorem, quod imperator esset militibus minatus.
An indirect statement introduced by the participle increpante of the ablative absolute turba ... increpante. The antecedent of the relative clause qui vulneraverat (in the ablative) is omitted and represents the speaker. In the accusative with infinitive, quaestorem is the subject accusative of habere, and the direct object of habere is the relative clause quod... (what the general had threatened to the soldiers) containing its own antecedent.
- 4.50.5ut tribunus militum ab exercitu suo lapidibus cooperiretur.
A consecutive clause (result clause) introduced by ut with the subjunctive cooperiretur, standing in correlation with the demonstrative adverb eo (to such a degree) in the main clause.