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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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Titus Quinctius submits the soldiers to the dictator's power while begging for their amnesty, which the dictator successfully passes into law before the people. In response to the soldiers' demands, new military laws regarding service and the promotion of centurions are enacted, despite containing some vindictive requests against those who opposed the rebellion.
adprobantibus clamore cunctis T. Quinctius ante signa progressus in potestate dictatoris milites fore dixit; oravit, ut causam miserorum civium susciperet susceptamque eadem fide, qua1 rem publicam administrare solitus esset, tueretur.
With everyone approving with a shout, Titus Quinctius, having advanced before the standards, said that the soldiers would be in the power of the dictator; he begged that he would undertake the cause of the wretched citizens and protect it, once undertaken, with the same loyalty with which he was accustomed to administer the republic.
sibi se privatim nihil cavere; nolle alibi quam in innocentia spem habere; militibus cavendum, quod apud patres semel plebi, iterum legionibus cautum sit, ne fraudi secessio esset.2
For himself privately he secured nothing; he did not wish to have hope anywhere else than in his innocence; but precaution must be taken for the soldiers, as had been secured once for the plebeians and a second time for the legions among the patricians, that the secession should not be a detriment to them.
Quinctio conlaudato ceteris bonum animum habere iussis dictator equo citato ad urbem revectus auctoribus patribus tulit ad populum in luco Petelino, ne cui militum fraudi secessio esset; oravit etiam bona venia Quirites, ne quis eam rem ioco seriove cuiquam exprobraret.
Having praised Quinctius and ordered the others to be of good courage, the dictator, riding back to the city on a swift horse, with the authorization of the patricians, proposed a law to the people in the Peteline grove, that the secession should not be a detriment to any of the soldiers; he also, with their kind permission, begged the Quirites that no one should reproach anyone with that matter either in jest or in earnest.
lex quoque sacrata militaris lata est, ne cuius militis scripti nomen nisi ipso volente deleretur; additumque legi, ne quis, ubi ordinum ductor fuisset, postea tribunus militum esset.
A sacred military law was also passed, that the name of no enlisted soldier should be erased except with his own consent; and it was added to the law that no one, after he had been a leader of the ranks, should afterwards be a military tribune.
id propter P. Salonium postulatum est ab coniuratis, qui alternis prope annis3 et tribunus militum et primus centurio erat, quem nunc primi pili appellant.
This was demanded by the conspirators on account of Publius Salonius, who almost in alternate years was both a military tribune and a chief centurion, whom they now call ‘of the first century’.
huic infensi milites erant, quod semper adversatus novis consiliis fuisset et, ne particeps eorum esset, ab Lautulis fugisset.
The soldiers were hostile to him because he had always opposed their new designs and, lest he should be a partaker in them, had fled from Lautulae.
itaque cum hoc unum propter Salonium ab senatu non impetraretur, tum Salonius obtestatus patres conscriptos, ne suum honorem pluris quam concordiam civitatis aestimarent,4 perpulit, ut id quoque ferretur. aeque inpotens postulatum fuit, ut de stipendio equitum — merebant autem triplex ea tempestate — aera demerentur, quod adversati coniurationi fuissent.
And so, when this one thing was not obtained from the senate on account of Salonius, then Salonius himself, having besought the conscript fathers that they should not value his honor more than the harmony of the state, urged them so that this also was passed. An equally unreasonable demand was made, that from the pay of the cavalry—now they earned triple at that time—the allowance should be reduced because they had opposed the conspiracy.
- 7.41.1eadem fide, qua
The correlative construction of eadem ... qua expresses comparison ("the same ... as/with which"). Both are in the ablative case, modifying fide.
- 7.41.2ne fraudi secessio esset
The dative of purpose fraudi ("for a detriment/harm") functions in a double dative-like construction, where the dative of interest (the soldiers) is understood from the context.
- 7.41.5alternis prope annis
Ablative of time when alternis annis modified by the adverb prope, expressing frequency ("almost in alternate years" or "nearly every other year").
- 7.41.7ne suum honorem pluris ... aestimarent
The genitive of value pluris ("of more value") used with the verb of valuing aestimare, followed by the comparison quam concordiam.
Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-05-25) · Revision history (1, latest 2026-09-21)
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