§16.1πρῶτον δέ φασι καὶ Πίστεως καὶ Τέρμονος ἱερὸν ἱδρύσασθαι.
And they say that he was the first to establish a temple of both Pistis and Termon.
καὶ τὴν μὲν Πίστιν ὅρκον ἀποδεῖξαι Ῥωμαίοις μέγιστον, ᾧ χρώμενοι μέχρι νῦν διατελοῦσιν·
And he established Pistis as the greatest oath for the Romans, which they continue to use down to the present day.
ὁ δὲ Τέρμων ὅρος ἄν τις εἴη, καὶ θύουσιν αὐτῷ δημοσίᾳ καὶ ἰδίᾳ κατὰ τοὺς τῶν ἀγρῶν περιορισμούς, νῦν μὲν ἔμψυχα, τὸ παλαιὸν δὲ ἀναίμακτος ἦν ἡ θυσία, Νομᾶ φιλοσοφήσαντος ὡς χρὴ τὸν ὅριον θεὸν εἰρήνης φύλακα καὶ δικαιοσύνης μάρτυν ὄντα φόνου καθαρὸν εἶναι.
Termon would be a boundary, and they sacrifice to him both publicly and privately at the boundaries of the fields, now indeed with living victims, but in ancient times the sacrifice was bloodless, since Numa reasoned that the god of boundaries, being a guardian of peace and a witness of justice, ought to be pure from slaughter.
§16.2δοκεῖ δὲ καὶ ὅλως οὗτος ὁρίσαι τὴν χώραν ὁ βασιλεύς, Ῥωμύλου μὴ βουληθέντος ἐξομολογήσασθαι τῷ μέτρῳ τοῦ οἰκείου τὴν ἀφαίρεσιν τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου· δεσμὸν γάρ εἶναι τῆς δυνάμεως τὸν ὅρον, ἂν φυλάττηται, μὴ φυλαττόμενον δὲ τῆς ἀδικίας ἔλεγχον.
And this king seems to have demarcated the territory as a whole, because Romulus was unwilling, by measuring his own, to acknowledge his taking of what belonged to others; for he thought that a boundary is a bond of power, if it is observed, but if it is not observed, a proof of injustice.
οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ ἦν δαψιλὴς χώρᾳ τῇ πόλει κατʼ ἀρχάς, ἀλλὰ τὴν πολλὴν αἰχμῇ προσεκτήσατο Ῥωμύλος· §16.3καὶ ταύτην πᾶσαν ὁ Νομᾶς διένειμε τοῖς ἀπόροις τῶν πολιτῶν, ὡς ἀνάγκην τῆς ἀδικίας ἀφαιρῶν τὴν ἀπορίαν, καὶ τρέπων ἐπὶ γεωργίαν τὸν δῆμον ἅμα τῇ χώρᾳ συνεξημερούμενον.
Indeed, the city did not have abundant territory at the beginning, but Romulus acquired most of it by the spear; and Numa distributed all of this to the needy citizens, removing poverty as a cause of compulsion to injustice, and turning the common people to agriculture, as they were civilized together with the land.
οὐδὲν γάρ ἄλλο τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων οὕτως ἔρωτα δριμὺν εἰρήνης ἐργάζεται καὶ ταχὺν ὡς ὁ ἀπὸ γῆς βίος, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τῆς πολεμικῆς εὐτολμίας τὸ μὲν ὑπερμαχητικὸν τοῦ οἰκείου διαμένει καὶ πάρεστι, τὸ δὲ εἰς ἀδικίαν καὶ πλεονεξίαν ἀνειμένον ἐκκέκοπται.
For no other occupation produces so keen and swift a love of peace as the life from the soil, in which, while that part of warlike courage which fights to defend one's own remains and is present, that which is let loose for injustice and greed is cut off.
§16.4διὸ καὶ τὴν γεωργίαν ὁ Νομᾶς οἷον εἰρήνης φίλτρον ἐμμίξας τοῖς πολίταις καὶ μᾶλλον ὡς ἠθοποιὸν ἢ πλουτοποιὸν ἀγαπήσας τέχνην, εἰς μέρη τὴν χώραν διεῖλεν, ἃ πάγους προσηγόρευσε, καὶ καθʼ ἕκαστον ἐπισκόπους ἔταξε καὶ περιπόλους, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ αὐτὸς ἐφορῶν καὶ τεκμαιρόμενος ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων τοὺς τρόπους τῶν πολιτῶν τοὺς μὲν εἰς τιμὰς καὶ πίστεις ἀνῆγε, τοὺς δὲ ῥᾳθύμους καὶ ἀμελεῖς ψέγων καὶ κακίζων ἐσωφρόνιζε.
Therefore Numa, mixing agriculture as a kind of love-potion of peace among the citizens, and cherishing the craft more as character-forming than wealth-producing, divided the territory into parts which he called pagi, and appointed over each district overseers and patrols; sometimes he also inspected them himself, and judging the character of the citizens from their works, he promoted some to honors and positions of trust, while others who were lazy and careless he corrected by censuring and rebuking them.