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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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While a procedural flaw in the Latin Festival necessitates its repetition and Consul Cornelius dies of illness amidst various portents, Gaius Claudius recaptures Mutina from the Ligurians, reporting the pacification of the region south of the Alps and the acquisition of new land.
Latinae feriae fuere ante diem tertium nonas Maias, in quibus quia in una hostia magistratus Lanuvinus precatus non erat populo Romano Quiritium, religioni fuit.1
The Latin Festival took place on the third day before the Nones of May, during which, because the magistrate of Lanuvium had not offered prayers for the Roman people of the Quirites at one sacrifice, it became a matter of religious concern.
id cum ad senatum relatum esset senatusque ad pontificum collegium reiecisset, pontificibus, quia non recte factae Latinae essent, instaurari Latinas placuit, Lanuvinos, quorum opera instaurandae essent, hostias praebere.
When this matter was reported to the senate, and the senate referred it to the college of pontiffs, the pontiffs decided, because the Latin Festival had not been properly conducted, that the Latin Festival should be repeated, and that the Lanuvians, through whose fault they had to be repeated, should provide the victims.
accesserat ad religionem, quod Cn. Cornelius consul ex monte Albano rediens concidit et, parte membrorum captus,2 ad Aquas Cumanas profectus ingravescente morbo Cumis decessit.
To their religious anxiety was added the fact that the consul Gnaeus Cornelius, returning from Mount Alban, collapsed, and, having lost the use of a part of his limbs, set out for the waters of Cumae, where, as his illness grew worse, he died.
sed inde mortuus Romam adlatus et funere magnifico elatus sepultusque est.
But from there his body was brought to Rome, and he was carried out in a magnificent funeral and buried.
pontifex idem fuerat. consul Q. Petilius cum primum per auspicia posset, collegae subrogando3 comitia habere iussus et Latinas edicere, comitia in ante diem tertium nonas Sextiles, Latinas in ante diem tertium idus Sextiles edixit.
He had also been a pontiff. As soon as it was possible through the auspices, the consul Quintus Petilius, having been ordered to hold the elections for choosing a substitute colleague and to proclaim the Latin Festival, proclaimed the elections for the third day before the Nones of August, and the Latin Festival for the third day before the Ides of August.
plenis religionum animis prodigia insuper nuntiata: Tusculi facem in caelo visam, Gabiis aedem Apollinis et privata aedificia conplura, Graviscis murum portamque de caelo tacta. ea patres procurari, uti pontifices censuissent, iusserunt.
While people’s minds were filled with religious anxieties, portents were reported in addition: at Tusculum a torch was seen in the sky; at Gabii the temple of Apollo and several private buildings, and at Graviscae the wall and a gate, were struck by lightning. The fathers ordered these to be expiated in accordance with the decision of the pontiffs.
dum consules primum religiones, deinde alterum alterius mors et comitia et Latinarum instauratio inpediunt,4 interim C. Claudius exercitum ad Mutinam, quam Ligures priore anno ceperant, admovit.
While first religious matters hindered the consuls, and then the death of the one, and the elections and the repetition of the Latin Festival hindered the other, in the meantime Gaius Claudius moved his army to Mutina, which the Ligurians had captured the previous year.
intra triduum, quam oppugnare coeperat, receptam ex hostibus colonis restituit. octo milia ibi Ligurum intra muros caesa;
Within three days after he had begun to attack it, he recovered it from the enemy and restored it to the colonists. Eight thousand of the Ligurians were slain there within the walls.
litteraeque Romam extemplo scriptae, quibus non modo rem exponeret, sed etiam gloriaretur sua virtute ac felicitate neminem iam cis Alpis esse hostem populi Romani, agrique aliquantum captum, qui multis milibus hominum dividi viritim posset.
And a letter was immediately written to Rome, in which he not only explained the situation, but also boasted that through his own valor and good fortune there was now no enemy of the Roman people this side of the Alps, and that a considerable amount of land had been captured which could be distributed individually to many thousands of people.
- 41.16.1religioni fuit
The dative 'religioni' is used as a dative of purpose or result. The subject is the preceding clause introduced by 'quia' or an implied pronoun 'id', meaning 'it became a matter of religious concern (or obstacle)'.
- 41.16.3parte membrorum captus
The perfect passive participle 'captus' (from 'capere') is used here in the medical or physical sense of 'deprived of strength, paralyzed'. 'parte membrorum' is an ablative of specification or limitation ('in a part of his limbs'), indicating that he suffered a stroke or partial paralysis.
- 41.16.5collegae subrogando
A gerundive construction where the gerundive 'subrogando' agrees with the noun 'collegae' (dative). It functions as a dative of purpose, meaning 'for the purpose of choosing/substituting a colleague'.
- 41.16.7dum consules primum religiones, deinde alterum alterius mors... inpediunt
A complex word order with interchanged subjects and objects. 'consules' (accusative plural) is the object of 'religiones' (nominative plural), and 'alterum' (accusative singular, referring to the surviving consul Petilius) is the object of 'alterius mors' (nominative singular, the death of Cornelius), 'comitia', and 'instauratio'. The plural verb 'inpediunt' takes all these nominative nouns as its subjects.