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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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Camillus sends the Tusculans to the Roman senate after being moved by their peaceful response; the envoys plead their innocence in Rome and obtain both peace and citizenship.
victus igitur patientia hostium senatum eorum vocari iussit. “soli adhuc” inquit, “Tusculani, vera arma verasque vires, quibus ab ira Romanorum vestra tutaremini,1 invenistis.
Defeated, therefore, by the patience of the enemy, Camillus ordered their senate to be called. “You alone,” he said, “Tusculans, have up to this time found the true weapons and the true strength with which to protect your possessions from the wrath of the Romans.
ite Romam ad senatum; aestimabunt patres, utrum plus ante poenae an nunc veniae meriti sitis;2 non praecipiam gratiam publici beneficii; deprecandi potestatem a me habueritis; precibus eventum vestris senatus, quem videbitur, dabit.”
Go to Rome to the senate; the senators will judge whether you have deserved more punishment before or more pardon now; I will not forestall the gratitude for a public benefit; you shall have from me the opportunity of entreating them; the senate will give to your prayers such an issue as shall seem fit.”
postquam Romam Tusculani venerunt senatusque paulo ante fidelium sociorum maestus in vestibulo curiae est conspectus, moti extemplo patres vocari eos iam tum hospitaliter magis quam hostiliter iussere. dictator Tusculanus ita verba fecit:
After the Tusculans arrived in Rome and the sorrowful sight of their senate—a little before faithful allies—was seen in the vestibule of the Senate-house, the senators, immediately moved, ordered them to be called in, even then in a hospitable rather than a hostile manner. The Tusculan dictator spoke as follows:
“quibus bellum indixistis intulistisque, patres conscripti, sicut nunc videtis nos stantes in vestibulo curiae vestrae, ita armati paratique obviam3 imperatoribus legionibusque vestris processimus.
”Conscript Fathers, against those whom you declared and brought war, just as you now see us standing in the vestibule of your Senate-house, so armed and prepared we went out to meet your generals and legions.
hic noster, hic plebis nostrae habitus fuit eritque semper, nisi si quando a vobis proque vobis arma acceperimus. gratias agimus et ducibus vestris et exercitibus, quod oculis magis quam auribus crediderunt et, ubi nihil hostile erat, ne ipsi quidem fecerunt.
This was and always will be our habit, and that of our commons, unless we shall at any time receive arms from you and for you. We give thanks both to your generals and to your armies, because they believed their eyes rather than their ears, and, where there was nothing hostile, they themselves did nothing hostile.
pacem, quam nos praestitimus, ea a vobis petimus;4 bellum eo, sicubi est, avertatis precamur; in nos quid arma polleant vestra, si patiendo experiundum est, inermes experiemur. haec mens nostra sit, di inmortales faciant, tam felix, quam pia.
The peace which we have maintained, that we ask from you; we pray that you may avert war thither, if there is any anywhere; if we must experience by suffering what power your arms have against us, we will experience it unarmed. May the immortal gods make this mind of ours as fortunate as it is pious.
quod ad crimina attinet, quibus moti bellum indixistis, etsi revicta rebus verbis confutare nihil attinet, tamen, etiam si vera sint, vel fateri nobis ea, cum tam evidenter paenituerit, tutum censemus. peccetur in vos, dum digni sitis, quibus ita satisfiat.”5
As for the charges by which you were moved to declare war, although it is of no purpose to refute with words what has been disproved by facts, yet, even if they were true, we think it safe for us even to confess them, since we have so clearly repented. Let offenses be committed against you, as long as you are worthy to be thus satisfied.”
tantum fere verborum ab Tusculanis factum. pacem in praesentia nec ita multo post civitatem etiam impetraverunt. ab Tusculo legiones reductae.
Almost only so many words were spoken by the Tusculans. They obtained peace for the present, and not so long after, citizenship as well. The legions were withdrawn from Tusculum.
- 6.26.1quibus ab ira Romanorum vestra tutaremini
In the clause introduced by the relative pronoun quibus with the antecedent vera arma verasque vires, the imperfect subjunctive tutaremini is used to express purpose or characteristic. vestra is the neuter plural accusative of the possessive adjective used substantively, meaning "your possessions."
- 6.26.2plus ante poenae an nunc veniae meriti sitis
This is a double indirect question introduced by utrum... an... depending on aestimabunt in the main clause, which requires the subjunctive sitis (perfect). poenae and veniae are partitive genitives depending on plus and the implied quantity with nunc ("more of punishment" and "now [more] of pardon").
- 6.26.4quibus bellum indixistis intulistisque... obviam
The antecedent of the relative pronoun quibus (the demonstrative pronoun eis) is omitted, which serves as both the dative governed by the verbs indixistis and intulistis ("against whom you declared and brought war") and the dative depending on obviam ("to meet [them]").
- 6.26.6pacem, quam nos praestitimus, ea a vobis petimus
The noun pacem is brought to the beginning of the sentence and followed by the relative clause quam nos praestitimus, then redundantly picked up by the demonstrative pronoun ea as the direct object of the main verb petimus. This is a case of prolepsis or transposition for emphasis.
- 6.26.7peccetur in vos, dum digni sitis, quibus ita satisfiat
peccetur is the third-person singular passive subjunctive of the intransitive verb pecco, used impersonally to express concession ("let offenses be committed"). dum ("provided that," "as long as") introduces a conditional clause of limitation and takes the subjunctive sitis. The clause starting with quibus is a relative clause of characteristic completing the adjective digni, taking the impersonal passive subjunctive satisfiat (from satisfacio).