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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 patricians launch a religious campaign, framing recent natural disasters and plagues as divine punishment for electing plebeians, and successfully monopolize the military tribuneship. The elected commanders, including Camillus, devastate the enemy territories around Veii.
haec eo anno acta. et iam comitia tribunorum militum aderant, quorum prope maior patribus quam belli cura erat1 quippe non communicatum modo cum plebe, sed prope amissum cernentibus summum imperium.
These things were done in that year. And already the elections for military tribunes were at hand, of which the concern for the patricians was almost greater than that for the war; for they saw that the supreme power was not only shared with the plebs, but almost lost.
itaque clarissimis viris ex composito praeparatis ad petendum, quos praetereundi verecundiam crederent fore,2 nihilo minus ipsi, perinde ac si omnes candidati essent, cuncta experientes non homines modo, sed deos etiam exciebant in religionem vertentes comitia biennio habita:
Therefore, having prepared by agreement the most illustrious men to stand for office, whom they believed there would be a feeling of shame in passing over, they themselves nonetheless, just as if they were all candidates, tried every means, and excited not only men but even the gods, turning the elections held during the two years into a matter of religious awe:
priore anno intolerandam hiemem prodigiisque divinis similem coortam, proxumo non prodigia, sed iam eventus:
namely, that in the previous year a winter intolerable and like to divine portents had arisen, and in the next year not portents, but already the actual events:
pestilentiam agris urbique inlatam haud dubia ira deum, quos pestis eius arcendae causa placandos esse in libris fatalibus inventum sit; comitiis, auspicato quae fierent, indignum dis visum honores volgari3 discriminaque gentium confundi.
that a pestilence had been brought upon the fields and the city by the undoubted wrath of the gods, whom it was found in the books of fate that they must be appeased for the sake of averting that plague; and that to the gods it seemed an indignity, in elections which should be held with auspices, for honors to be vulgarized and the distinctions of families to be confounded.
praeterquam maiestate petentium, religione etiam attoniti homines patricios omnis, partem magnam honoratissimum quemque, tribunos militum consulari potestate creavere, L. Valerium Potitum quintum, M. Valerium Maximum, M. Furium Camillum iterum, L. Furium Medullinum tertium, Q. Servilium Fidenatem iterum, Q. Sulpicium Camerinum iterum.
The people, awestruck not only by the majesty of the candidates but also by religion, elected all patricians, and for the most part the most honored men, as military tribunes with consular power: Lucius Valerius Potitus for the fifth time, Marcus Valerius Maximus, Marcus Furius Camillus for the second time, Lucius Furius Medullinus for the third time, Quintus Servilius Fidenas for the second time, and Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus for the second time.
his tribunis ad Veios nihil admodum memorabile actum est;
Under these tribunes, nothing very memorable was done at Veii;
tota vis in populationibus fuit. duo summi imperatores Potitus a Faleriis, Camillus a Capena praedas ingentes egere nulla incolumi relicta re, cui ferro aut igni noceri posset.4
the whole force was spent in devastations. Two supreme commanders, Potitus from Falerii, and Camillus from Capena, carried off immense booty, leaving nothing unharmed that could be damaged by sword or fire.
- 5.14.1quorum prope maior patribus quam belli cura erat
patribus is a dative of possessor, indicating who had the concern (cura). The genitive relative pronoun quorum refers back to the antecedent comitia.
- 5.14.2quos praetereundi verecundiam crederent fore
quos is the direct object of the gerund praetereundi ('passing them over'). fore is the future infinitive (futuram esse) whose subject accusative is verecundiam ('shame/feeling of reluctance'). Within this infinitive construction, a dative of reference representing the plebeians is understood. crederent is a subjunctive of virtual oblique clause representing the patricians' thought.
- 5.14.4indignum dis visum honores volgari
dis is a dative of reference/judgment modifying the substantivated neuter adjective indignum ('an indignity to the gods'). The accusative with infinitive clause honores volgari is the subject of the impersonal passive visum [esse]. auspicato is an impersonal ablative absolute used adverbially ('after auspices had been taken').
- 5.14.7cui ferro aut igni noceri posset
noceri is the impersonal passive of the intransitive verb nocere, which governs the dative; therefore, the relative pronoun cui is in the dative case, referring back to the antecedent re.
Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-05-25) · Revision history (2, latest 2026-09-22)
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