§1.85.1τὰ δὲ κατὰ τὴν κτίσιν αὐτὴν γενόμενα (τοῦτο γὰρ ἔτι μοι τὸ μέρος τῆς γραφῆς λείπεται) νῦν ἔρχομαι διηγησόμενος.
\nNow, concerning the events that occurred during the founding itself (for this part of my history is still left for me), I am coming to narrate them.
ἐπειδὴ γὰρ Ἀμολίου τελευτήσαντος ἀνενεώσατο τὴν ἀρχὴν ὁ Νεμέτωρ ὀλίγον ἐπισχὼν χρόνον, ἐν ᾧ τὴν πόλιν ἐκ τῆς πρότερον ἐπεχούσης ἀκοσμίας εἰς τὸν ἀρχαῖον ἐκόσμει τρόπον, εὐθὺς ἐπενόει τοῖς μειρακίοις ἰδίαν ἀρχὴν κατασκευάσαι ἑτέραν πόλιν οἰκίσας. §1.85.2ἅμα δὲ καὶ τοῦ πολιτικοῦ πλήθους ἐπίδοσιν εἰς εὐανδρίαν ἐσχηκότος ἀπαναλῶσαί τι καλῶς ἔχειν ᾤετο, καὶ μάλιστα τὸ διάφορον αὐτῷ ποτε γενόμενον, ὡς μὴ διʼ ὑποψίας αὐτοὺς ἔχοι.
For when Amulius had died, Numitor restored his rule, and after waiting a short time, during which he restored the city from the previous disorder that held it to its ancient order, he immediately planned to establish a separate rule for the young men by founding another city.\n\nAt the same time, as the civic multitude had increased in population, he thought it was well to send away a part of them, and especially those who had once been at variance with him, so that he might not hold them in suspicion.
κοινωσάμενος δὲ τοῖς μειρακίοις, ἐπειδὴ κἀκείνοις ἐδόκει, δίδωσιν αὐτοῖς χωρία μὲν ὧν ἄρξουσιν, ἔνθα παῖδες ὄντες ἐτράφησαν, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ λεὼ τόν τε διʼ ὑποψίας αὐτῷ γενόμενον, ὃς ἔμελλε νεωτερισμοῦ εἰσαῦθις ἄρξειν, καὶ εἴ τι ἑκούσιον ἀπαναστῆναι ἐβούλετο. §1.85.3ἦν δὲ ἐν τούτοις πολὺ μὲν ὥσπερ εἰκὸς ἐν πόλει κινουμένῃ τὸ δημοτικὸν γένος, ἱκανὸν δὲ καὶ τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ κρατίστου γνώριμον, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ Τρωικοῦ τὸ εὐγενέστατον δὴ νομιζόμενον, ἐξ οὗ καὶ γενεαί τινες ἔτι περιῆσαν εἰς ἐμέ, πεντήκοντα μάλιστʼ οἶκοι.
And having communicated with the young men, since it also pleased them, he gave them the lands which they were to rule, where they had been brought up as children, and from the people both those who were held in suspicion by him, who were likely to start a rebellion in the future, and any who wished to depart voluntarily.\n\nAmong these, as was natural in a changing city, there was a large portion of the common sort, but also a sufficient number of the prominent men from the best class, and from the Trojan stock those who were considered the most noble, from whom indeed some families still survived to my time, about fifty houses.
ἐχορηγεῖτο δὲ τοῖς νεανίσκοις καὶ χρήματα καὶ ὅπλα καὶ σῖτος καὶ ἀνδράποδα καὶ ὑποζύγια ἀχθοφόρα καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο πόλεως ἦν κατασκευῇ πρόσφορον. §1.85.4ὡς δὲ ἀνέστησαν ἐκ τῆς Ἄλβας οἱ νεανίσκοι τὸν λεὼν μίξαντες αὐτῷ τὸν αὐτόθεν, ὅσος ἦν ἐν τῷ Παλλαντίῳ καὶ περὶ τὴν Σατορνίαν ὑπολιπής, μερίζονται τὸ πλῆθος ἅπαν διχῇ.
And there was supplied to the young men both money and arms and corn and slaves and beasts of burden and whatever else was useful for the establishment of a city.\n\nWhen the young men set out from Alba, having mixed with their people those from the place itself, as many as were left in Pallantium and around Saturnia, they divided the whole multitude into two parts.
τοῦτο δὲ αὐτοῖς δόξαν παρέσχε φιλοτιμίας, ἵνα θᾶττον ἀνύηται τῇ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἁμίλλῃ τὰ ἔργα, αἴτιον δὲ τοῦ μεγίστου κακοῦ, στάσεως, ἐγένετο.
This action gave them an appearance of rivalry, so that through their competition with one another the works might be accomplished more quickly, but it became the cause of the greatest evil, dissension.
§1.85.5οἵ τε γὰρ προσνεμηθέντες αὐτοῖς τὸν ἑαυτῶν ἡγεμόνα ἕκαστοι κυδαίνοντες ὡς ἐπιτήδειον ἁπάντων ἄρχειν ἐπῆρον, αὐτοί τε οὐκέτι μίαν γνώμην ἔχοντες οὐδὲ ἀδελφὰ διανοεῖσθαι ἀξιοῦντες, ὡς αὐτὸς ἄρξων ἑκάτερος θατέρου, παρώσαντες τὸ ἴσον τοῦ πλείονος ὠρέγοντο.
\n\nFor those who were assigned to each of them, extolling their own leader as fit to rule over all, puffed them up; and they themselves, no longer having one mind nor deigning to think like brothers, but each intending that he himself should rule the other, set aside equality and reached out for superiority.
τέως μὲν οὖν ἀφανῆ τὰ πλεονεκτήματα αὐτῶν ἦν, ἔπειτα δὲ ἐξερράγη σὺν τοιᾷδε προφάσει. §1.85.6τὸ χωρίον ἔνθα ἔμελλον ἱδρύσειν τὴν πόλιν οὐ τὸ αὐτὸ ᾑρεῖτο ἑκάτερος.
For a time, indeed, their ambition remained concealed, but afterwards it broke out on the following pretext.\n\nThe place where they were about to found the city was not chosen the same by each.
Ῥωμύλου μὲν γὰρ ἦν γνώμη τὸ Παλλάντιον οἰκίζειν τῶν τε ἄλλων ἕνεκα καὶ τῆς τύχης τοῦ τόπου, ἣ τὸ σωθῆναί τε αὐτοῖς καὶ τραφῆναι παρέσχε· Ῥώμῳ δὲ ἐδόκει τὴν καλουμένην νῦν ἀπʼ ἐκείνου Ῥεμορίαν οἰκίζειν.
For Romulus' opinion was to build on Pallantium, both for other reasons and because of the fortune of the place, which had granted them their preservation and rearing; but to Remus it seemed best to build on the place now called after him, Remoria.
ἔστι δὲ τὸ χωρίον ἐπιτήδειον ὑποδέξασθαι πόλιν λόφος οὐ πρόσω τοῦ Τεβέριος κείμενος, ἀπέχων τῆς Ῥώμης ἀμφὶ τοὺς τριάκοντα σταδίους.
This place is a hill suitable for receiving a city, situated not far from the Tiber, and distant from Rome about thirty stades.
ἐκ δὲ τῆς φιλονεικίας ταύτης ἀκοινώνητος εὐθὺς ὑπεδηλοῦτο φιλαρχία. τῷ γὰρ εἴξαντι τὸ κρατῆσαν εἰς πάντα ὁμοίως ἐπιθήσεσθαι ἔμελλεν.
From this rivalry, an uncompromising lust for power was immediately revealed; for to the one who yielded, the conqueror was likewise about to impose his will in all things.