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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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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-28
Camillus sells the surviving citizens of Veii into slavery and pays the proceeds into the public treasury, causing displeasure among the plebeians. Subsequently, the statue of Juno is reverently and miraculously transported to the Aventine Hill by chosen youths, marking the complete fall of Veii.
postero die libera corpora dictator sub corona vendidit. ea sola pecunia in publicum redigitur, haud sine ira plebis; et quod rettulere secum praedae, nec duci, qui ad senatum malignitatis auctores quaerendo, rem arbitrii sui reiecisset, nec senatui, sed Liciniae familiae, ex qua filius ad senatum rettulisset, pater tam popularis sententiae auctor fuisset, acceptum referebant.1
On the following day, the dictator sold the free persons under the crown. That money alone was paid into the public treasury, not without the anger of the plebeians; and for the plunder they had carried away with them, they gave no credit to the commander, who, by seeking to find the authors of the stinginess in the senate, had referred back a matter of his own decision, nor to the senate, but to the Licinian family, from which the son had brought the matter before the senate and the father had been the author of so popular a proposal.
cum iam humanae opes egestae a Veis essent, amoliri tum deum dona ipsosque deos, sed colentium magis quam rapientium modo, coepere.
When the wealth of humans had now been carried away from Veii, they then began to remove the gifts of the gods and the gods themselves, but more in the manner of worshippers than of plunderers.
namque delecti ex omni exercitu iuvenes pure lautis corporibus, candida veste, quibus deportanda2 Romam regina Iuno adsignata erat, venerabundi templum iniere primo religiose admoventes manus, quod id signum more Etrusco nisi certae gentis sacerdos adtrectare non esset solitus.
For young men chosen from the entire army, with bodies washed clean and in white raiment, to whom the task of transporting Queen Juno to Rome had been assigned, entered the temple with reverence, at first laying hands upon her with religious awe, because according to Etruscan custom, no priest except one of a certain family was accustomed to touch that image.
dein cum quidam seu spiritu divino tactus seu iuvenali ioco “visne Romam ire, Iuno?” dixisset, adnuisse ceteri deam conclamaverunt.
Then, when one of them, whether touched by a divine spirit or in youthful jest, said, “Do you wish to go to Rome, Juno?”, the others cried out that the goddess had nodded assent.
inde fabulae adiectum est vocem quoque dicentis velle auditam; motam certe sede sua parvi molimenti adminiculis sequentis modo3 accepimus levem ac facilem tralatu fuisse integramque in Aventinum, aeternam sedem suam, quo vota Romani dictatoris vocaverant, perlatam, ubi templum ei postea idem, qui voverat, Camillus dedicavit. hic Veiorum occasus fuit, urbis opulentissimae Etrusci nominis, magnitudinem suam vel ultima clade indicantis, quod decem aestates hiemesque continuas circumsessa, cum plus aliquanto cladium intulisset quam accepisset, postremo iam fato quoque urgente operibus tamen, non vi expugnata est.
From this, the story was added that the voice of her saying she wished to do so was also heard; at all events, we have received the account that, being moved from her seat with the help of little effort, she was light and easy to transport, as if she were following, and was carried undamaged to the Aventine, her eternal seat, where the vows of the Roman dictator had called her, where the same Camillus who had vowed it afterwards dedicated a temple to her. This was the fall of Veii, a most wealthy city of the Etruscan name, proving its greatness even in its final ruin, because, having been besieged for ten continuous summers and winters, though it had inflicted considerably more losses than it received, at last, with fate now also pressing hard, it was nevertheless taken by siege-works and not by force.
- 5.22.2acceptum referebant
An imperfect tense of the idiom acceptum referre alicui (derived from bookkeeping, meaning 'to credit someone with something' or 'to attribute/owe something to someone'). Here, the soldiers credited the booty they carried away (quod rettulere) not to the dictator or the senate, but to the Licinian family.
- 5.22.4deportanda
A gerundive (future passive participle) in the nominative feminine singular, modifying regina Iuno. Together with the dative of agent quibus ('by whom'), it expresses obligation or assignment: 'Queen Juno, who was to be transported to Rome by them.'
- 5.22.6sequentis modo
sequentis is the genitive singular of the present participle sequens, referring to the feminine noun (the statue of Juno). Combined with modo ('in the manner of / like'), it means 'as if she were following of her own accord,' vividly describing the miraculous ease with which the statue was moved.
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