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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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In the military tribune elections of 379 BC, an equal number of patricians and plebeians were chosen, but the rash military leadership of the Manlii brothers brought the Roman forces to the brink of disaster against the Volsci. Disaster was averted by the soldiers' courage, and domestic peace was maintained by the plebeian tribunes.
comitia inde habita tribunorum militum consulari potestate, quibus aequatus patriciorum plebeiorumque numerus.
Then the elections were held for military tribunes with consular power, in which the number of patricians and plebeians was made equal.
ex patribus creati P. et C. Manlii cum L. Iulio; plebes C. Sextilium, M. Albinium, L. Antistium dedit.
From the patricians were elected Publius and Gaius Manlius, along with Lucius Iulius; the plebs contributed Gaius Sextilius, Marcus Albinius, and Lucius Antistius.
Manliis, quod genere plebeios, gratia Iulium anteibant, Volsci provincia sine sorte, sine conparatione extra ordinem data; cuius et ipsos postmodo et patres, qui dederant, paenituit.1
To the Manlii, because they surpassed the plebeians in birth and Iulius in popularity, the Volscian campaign was assigned without drawing lots or mutual agreement, out of the regular order; a decision which afterwards both they themselves and the patricians who had assigned it regretted.
inexplorato pabulatum cohortes misere; quibus velut circumventis, cum id falso nuntiatum esset, dum, praesidio ut essent, citati feruntur,2 ne auctore quidem adservato, qui eos, hostis Latinus pro milite Romano, frustratus erat, ipsi in insidias praecipitavere.
Having sent out cohorts to forage without reconnoitering, and when a false report was brought that these had been surrounded, while they hurried at full speed to support them—without even securing the informant, a Latin enemy who had deceived them in the guise of a Roman soldier—they themselves plunged headlong into an ambush.
ibi dum iniquo loco sola virtute militum restantes caedunt caedunturque, castra interim Romana iacentia in campo ab altera parte hostes invasere.
There, while in an unfavorable position, holding out by the sole courage of the soldiers, they were slaying and being slain, in the meantime the enemy attacked the Roman camp, which lay in the plain, from the other side.
ab ducibus utrobique proditae temeritate atque inscitia res; quidquid superfuit fortuna populi Romani et militum, etiam sine rectore stabilis, virtus tutata est.
By the commanders on both sides, the situation was betrayed through rashness and ignorance; whatever survived, the fortune of the Roman people and the courage of the soldiers, steadfast even without a leader, preserved.
quae ubi Romam sunt relata, primum dictatorem dici placebat; deinde, postquam quietae res ex Volscis adferebantur et apparuit nescire eos victoria et tempore uti, revocati etiam inde exercitus ac duces, otiumque inde, quantum a Volscis, fuit;
When these tidings were brought to Rome, it was at first resolved that a dictator should be named; but afterwards, when quiet news was brought from the Volsci, and it appeared that they did not know how to use their victory and opportunity, the armies and commanders were recalled from there as well, and there was peace from that quarter, as far as the Volsci were concerned.
id modo extremo anno tumultuatum, quod Praenestini concitatis Latinorum populis rebellarunt.
Only at the end of the year was there a disturbance, because the Praenestines, having excited the Latin peoples, renewed the war.
eodem anno Setiam, ipsis querentibus penuriam hominum, novi coloni adscripti. rebusque haud prosperis bello domestica quies, quam tribunorum militum ex plebe gratia maiestasque inter suos obtinuit,3 solacium fuit.
In the same year, new colonists were enrolled for Setia, as the inhabitants themselves complained of the scarcity of men. And amidst the unsuccessful events in the war, domestic quiet, which the popularity and influence of the military tribunes from the plebs maintained among their own class, was a consolation.
- 6.30.3cuius et ipsos postmodo et patres, qui dederant, paenituit
The construction of the impersonal verb paenitet (to regret), which takes the person who regrets in the accusative (ipsos and patres) and the object of regret in the genitive (cuius, a connecting relative pronoun). The antecedent of cuius is the fact that the Volscian campaign was assigned out of order.
- 6.30.4dum, praesidio ut essent, citati feruntur
praesidio is a dative of purpose forming, together with essent (imperfect subjunctive of sum), a final clause ('that they might be a protection'). citati feruntur uses the passive (or middle) of fero in the sense of 'they rush headlong' or 'they hurry at full speed.'
- 6.30.9gratia maiestasque ... obtinuit
Although the subject consists of two feminine singular nouns, gratia and maiestasque, the predicate verb obtinuit is in the singular. This occurs either because the two concepts are treated as a single unified idea or because the verb agrees with the nearer subject (maiestas).