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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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This section details the assignment of provinces to the consuls, military mobilization, ritual responses to various portents, and the implementation of Claudius's law and a senate decree regulating the manumission of allies to prevent fraudulent changes of citizenship.
provinciae deinde, quae in bello erant, Sardinia atque Histria consulibus decretae.
Then the provinces which were in a state of war, Sardinia and Istria, were decreed to the consuls.
in Sardiniam duae legiones scribi iussae, quina milia in singulas et duceni pedites, treceni equites, et duodecim milia peditum sociorum ac Latini nominis et sescenti equites et decem quinqueremes naves, si deducere ex navalibus vellet.1
For Sardinia, two legions were ordered to be enrolled, each to consist of five thousand two hundred infantry and three hundred cavalry, and twelve thousand infantry of the allies and the Latin name with six hundred cavalry, and ten quinqueremes, if he wished to bring them out of the dockyards.
tantumdem peditum equitumque in Histriam, quantum in Sardiniam, decretum. et legionem unam cum equitibus trecentis, et quinque milia peditum sociorum et ducentos quinquaginta mittere equites in Hispaniam consules ad M. Titinium iussi.
The same number of infantry and cavalry was decreed for Istria as for Sardinia. The consuls were also ordered to send to Marcus Titinius in Spain one legion with three hundred cavalry, and five thousand allied infantry with two hundred and fifty cavalry.
priusquam consules provincias sortirentur, prodigia nuntiata sunt:
Before the consuls drew lots for their provinces, portents were reported:
lapidem in agro Crustumino in lucum Martis de caelo cecidisse; puerum trunci corporis in agro Romano natum et quadrupedem anguem visum; et Capuae multa in foro aedificia de caelo tacta; et Puteolis duas naves fulminis ictu concrematas esse.
that a stone had fallen from the sky into the grove of Mars in the territory of Crustumerium; that a boy with a body consisting only of a trunk was born in the Roman territory, and a four-legged snake had been seen; and at Capua many buildings in the forum had been struck by lightning; and at Puteoli two ships had been burned by a stroke of lightning.
inter haec, quae nuntiabantur, lupus etiam Romae interdiu agitatus, cum Collina porta intrasset, per Esquilinam magno consectantium tumultu evasit.
While these portents were being reported, a wolf also, chased at Rome in the daytime, after entering by the Colline gate, escaped through the Esquiline gate amidst a great uproar of the pursuers.
eorum prodigiorum causa consules maiores hostias immolarunt, et diem unum circa omnia pulvinaria supplicatio fuit.
On account of these portents, the consuls sacrificed full-grown victims, and there was a supplication for one day at all the shrines.
sacrificiis rite perfectis provincias sortiti sunt; Claudio Histria, Sempronio Sardinia obvenit.
The sacrifices having been duly performed, they drew lots for their provinces; Istria fell to Claudius, Sardinia to Sempronius.
legem dein de sociis C. Claudius tulit ex senatus consulto et edixit, qui socii nominis Latini, ipsi maioresve eorum, M. Claudio T. Quinctio censoribus2 postve ea apud socios nominis Latini censi essent, ut omnes in suam quisque civitatem ante kal. Novembres redirent.
Then Gaius Claudius, in accordance with a decree of the senate, proposed a law concerning the allies, and issued an edict that all allies of the Latin name, who themselves or whose ancestors had been registered among the allies of the Latin name in the censorship of Marcus Claudius and Titus Quinctius, or after that time, should return each to his own state before the first of November.
quaestio, qui ita non redissent, L. Mummio praetori decreta est.
The inquiry concerning those who had not returned in this manner was decreed to the praetor Lucius Mummius.
ad legem et edictum consulis senatus consultum adiectum est, ut dictator, consul, interrex, censor, praetor, qui nunc esset quive postea futurus esset, apud eorum quem qui manu mitteretur,3 in libertatem vindicaretur, ut ius iurandum daret, qui eum manu mitteret, civitatis mutandae causa manu non mittere; in quo id non iuraret, eum manu mittendum non censuerunt.
To the law and the edict of the consul a decree of the senate was added, to the effect that when anyone was being manumitted and vindicated into freedom before any of those who were then or should thereafter be dictator, consul, interrex, censor, or praetor, the person manumitting him should take an oath that he did not manumit him for the purpose of changing his citizenship; and if anyone would not take this oath, they resolved that the slave ought not to be manumitted.
haec in posterum cauta iussique edicto C. Claudi cons. Claudio decreta est.
These precautions were taken for the future, and they were ordered by the edict of the consul Gaius Claudius. It was decreed to Claudius.
- 41.9.2si deducere ex navalibus vellet
A conditional clause with the subjunctive (vellet). The subject is understood from the context to be the consul (Sempronius) who was to command in Sardinia.
- 41.9.9M. Claudio T. Quinctio censoribus
Ablative absolute consisting of nouns: "when Marcus Claudius and Titus Quinctius were censors", indicating a specific period (189 BC).
- 41.9.11apud eorum quem qui manu mitteretur
Hyperbaton (word-order inversion). It should be understood as apud quem eorum, qui manu mitteretur ("before whichever of them the person being manumitted..."). eorum refers back to the list of magistrates.