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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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Censors are elected, and the praetors along with the newly elected censors introduce strict measures to enforce the levy and restore military discipline for the Macedonian war, drawing a massive crowd of youths to Rome.
censoribus deinde creandis1 comitia edicta sunt. petierunt censuram principes civitatis, C. Valerius Laevinus, L. Postumius Albinus, P. Mucius Scaevola, M. Iunius Brutus, C. Claudius Pulcher, Ti. Sempronius Gracchus. hos duos censores creavit populus Romanus.
Then the assembly was proclaimed for the election of censors. The leading men of the state, Gaius Valerius Laevinus, Lucius Postumius Albinus, Publius Mucius Scaevola, Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Claudius Pulcher, and Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, sued for the censorship. The Roman people elected these latter two as censors.
cum dilectus habendi maior quam alias propter Macedonicum bellum cura esset, consules plebem apud senatum accusabant, quod iuniores non responderent.
Since there was greater care than at other times for holding the levy on account of the Macedonian war, the consuls accused the plebeians before the senate because the younger men did not answer to their names.
adversus quos C. Sulpicius et M. Claudius praetores plebis causam egerunt: non consulibus, sed ambitiosis consulibus dilectum difficilem esse; neminem invitum militem ab iis fieri.
Against them, Gaius Sulpicius and Marcus Claudius, the praetors, pleaded the cause of the plebeians: that the levy was difficult not for consuls, but for popularity-seeking consuls; that no one was made a soldier by them against his will.
id ut ita esse scirent et patres conscripti, praetores se, quibus vis imperii minor et auctoritas esset,2 dilectum, si ita senatui videretur, perfecturos esse.
In order that the conscript fathers might know that this was so, the praetors offered that they themselves, though having less power of command and authority, would complete the levy, if it so pleased the senate.
id praetoribus magna patrum approbatione, non sine suggillatione consulum mandatum est. censores, ut eam rem adiuvarent, ita in contione edixerunt: legem censui censendo3 dicturos esse, ut praeter commune omnium civium ius iurandum haec adiurarent:
This task was mandated to the praetors with great approval of the fathers, not without taunts against the consuls. The censors, in order to assist in this matter, issued an edict in an assembly as follows: that they would prescribe a regulation for conducting the census, so that, besides the common oath of all citizens, they should swear to these words:
“tu minor annis sex et quadraginta es tuque ex edicto C. Claudi Ti. Semproni censorum ad dilectum prodisti et, quotienscumque dilectus erit, quoad hi censores magistratum habebunt, si miles factus non eris, in dilectum prodibis?”
”Are you under forty-six years of age, and have you come forward for the levy according to the edict of Gaius Claudius and Tiberius Sempronius, the censors; and, whenever there is a levy, as long as these censors hold office, if you are not made a soldier, will you come forward for the levy?”
item, quia fama erat multos ex Macedonicis legionibus incertis commeatibus per ambitionem imperatorum ab exercitu abesse, edixerunt de militibus P. Aelio C. Popilio consulibus postve eos consules in Macedoniam scriptis, ut, qui eorum in Italia essent, intra dies triginta, censi prius apud sese, in provinciam redirent;
Likewise, because there was a rumor that many from the Macedonian legions were absent from the army through the popularity-seeking of the commanders on irregular furloughs, they issued an edict concerning the soldiers enlisted for Macedonia under the consuls Publius Aelius and Gaius Popilius, or after those consuls, that those of them who were in Italy should, after being first registered before themselves, return to the province within thirty days;
qui in patris aut avi potestate essent, eorum nomina ad se ederentur.
as for those who were under the power of a father or grandfather, their names should be reported to them.
missorum quoque causas sese cognituros esse; et quorum ante emerita stipendia gratiosa missio sibi visa esset,4 eos milites fieri iussuros.
They declared also that they would examine the reasons of those who had been discharged; and those whose discharge before their completed terms of service seemed to them to have been granted as a favor, they would order to become soldiers.
hoc edicto litterisque censorum per fora et conciliabula dimissis tanta multitudo iuniorum Romam convenit, ut gravis urbi turba insolita esset.
When this edict and the letters of the censors had been sent out through the forums and meeting-places, such a great multitude of younger men assembled at Rome that the unusual crowd was a burden to the city.
- 43.14.1censoribus deinde creandis
Dative of purpose in a gerundive construction, modifying the noun comitia to indicate the election of censors.
- 43.14.4quibus vis imperii minor et auctoritas esset
The subjunctive esset in the relative clause introduces a concessive force: "although they (as praetors) had less power of command (imperium) and authority (auctoritas) than the consuls."
- 43.14.5censui censendo
An official administrative and legal formula. It consists of the dative censui (from the fourth declension noun census) combined with the dative of the gerundive censendo, meaning "for conducting the census."
- 43.14.9quorum ante emerita stipendia gratiosa missio sibi visa esset
The subjunctive visa esset is used because it is in a subordinate clause in indirect discourse. sibi refers to the censors, the subjects of the main clause. emerita stipendia (completed service) combined with ante means "before completing their required term of service."