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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 Latin envoy Annius demands equal rights before the Roman senate, including one of the consulships and half of the senate seats. In response, the Roman consul Manlius fiercely rejects these demands and asserts Roman sovereignty.
ubi est Romam ventum, in Capitolio eis senatus datus est. ibi cum T. Manlius consul egisset cum eis ex auctoritate patrum, ne Samnitibus foederatis bellum inferrent, Annius, tamquam victor armis Capitolium cepisset, non legatus iure gentium tutus loqueretur:
When they arrived at Rome, an audience with the senate was granted to them on the Capitol. There, when the consul Titus Manlius had treated with them by the authority of the patricians, urging that they should not bring war upon the allied Samnites, Annius, as if he had captured the Capitol by arms as a victor, rather than speaking as an ambassador protected by the law of nations, said:
“tempus erat”1 inquit, “T. Manli vosque patres conscripti, tandem iam vos nobiscum nihil pro imperio agere, cum florentissimum deum benignitate nunc Latium armis virisque, Samnitibus bello victis, Sidicinis Campanisque sociis, nunc etiam Volscis adiunctis, videretis, colonias quoque vestras Latinum Romano praetulisse imperium.
”It was high time, Titus Manlius, and you, conscript fathers, that you should at last cease to act in any way towards us by right of empire, since you see that Latium is now most flourishing by the favor of the gods in arms and men, with the Samnites conquered in war, the Sidicini and Campanians as allies, and now even the Volscians joined to us, and that your own colonies too have preferred the Latin empire to the Roman.
sed quoniam vos, regno inpotenti finem ut inponatis, non inducitis in animum,2 nos, quamquam armis possumus adserere Latium in libertatem, consanguinitati tamen hoc dabimus, ut condiciones pacis feramus aequas utrisque, quoniam vires quoque aequari dis inmortalibus placuit.
But since you do not bring your minds to put an end to your unrestrained rule, we, although we are able by arms to assert the liberty of Latium, will yet grant this to our common blood, that we bring conditions of peace that are equal to both sides, since it has pleased the immortal gods that our strength also should be equalized.
consulem alterum Roma, alterum ex Latio creari oportet, senatus partem aequam ex utraque gente esse, unum populum, unam rem publicam fieri;
It is fitting that one consul be created from Rome, the other from Latium, that an equal part of the senate be from each nation, and that there be one people, one commonwealth;
et ut imperii eadem sedes sit idemque omnibus nomen, quoniam ab altera utra parte concedi necesse est, quod utrisque bene vertat, sit haec sane patria potior, et Romani omnes vocemur.” forte ita accidit, ut parem ferociae3 huius et Romani consulem T. Manlium haberent, qui adeo non tenuit iram, ut, si tanta dementia patres conscriptos cepisset, ut ab Setino homine leges acciperent, gladio cinctum in senatum venturum se esse palam diceret et, quemcumque in curia Latinum vidisset, sua manu interempturum.
and so that there may be the same seat of empire and the same name for all—since it is necessary that concession be made by one of the two sides, and may this turn out well for both—let this city indeed be the preferred mother country, and let us all be called Romans.” It happened by chance that, just as the Romans had a consul, Titus Manlius, equal to this fierceness, who so little restrained his anger that he openly declared that if such madness should seize the conscript fathers that they should accept laws from a man of Setia, he would come into the senate girded with a sword, and would slay with his own hand whatever Latin he should see in the curia.
et conversus ad simulacrum Iouis “audi, Iuppiter, haec scelera” inquit; “audite, Ius Fasque. peregrinos consules et peregrinum senatum in tuo, Iuppiter, augurato templo captus ipse atque oppressus4 visurus es?
And turning to the statue of Jupiter, he said: “Hear, Jupiter, these impieties; hear, Justice and Divine Law. Are you, Jupiter, yourself captured and oppressed, to behold foreign consuls and a foreign senate in your own consecrated temple?
haecine foedera Tullus, Romanus rex, cum Albanis, patribus vestris, Latini, haec L. Tarquinius vobiscum postea fecit?
Did Tullus, the Roman king, make such treaties with the Albans, your ancestors, Latins, or did Lucius Tarquinius make such treaties with you afterwards?
non venit in mentem pugna apud Regillum lacum? adeo et cladium veterum vestrarum et beneficiorum nostrorum ergo5 vos obliti estis?”
Does not the battle at Lake Regillus come to mind? Have you so completely forgotten both your own ancient disasters and our benefits towards you?”
- 8.5.3tempus erat
The phrase "tempus erat" (it was time) is followed by the infinitive clause "vos ... nihil pro imperio agere". The imperfect "erat" emphasizes a non-realized obligation that should have already taken place or is long overdue.
- 8.5.4non inducitis in animum
"inducere in animum" (to bring into the mind) is an idiom meaning "to resolve" or "to make up one's mind". Here it takes the "ut" clause "regno inpotenti finem ut inponatis" as its object.
- 8.5.7ut parem ferociae
This belongs to the noun clause of result "ut ... haberent" introduced by "accidit". The adjective "parem" (equal to, accusative) modifies "consulem T. Manlium" and governs the dative "ferociae huius".
- 8.5.8captus ipse atque oppressus
These are nominative masculine singular participles agreeing with the subject of the main clause, "tu" (Jupiter), rather than the accusative subject of an infinitive clause. They serve as a complement to "visurus es" (are you going to see), depicting the state of Jupiter himself as being "captured and oppressed" while witnessing the foreign presence.
- 8.5.10ergo
Although some manuscripts read "erga vos" (towards you), if read as "ergo," it functions here not as a postposition governing the genitive ("on account of"), but as the conjunction "therefore". The genitives "cladium" and "beneficiorum" are governed by the verb "obliti estis" (from obliviscor, "to forget").