§11.6.1ἔτι δʼ αὐτοῦ λέγοντος οἱ δέκα περιίστανται κεκραγότες καὶ τὴν δημαρχικὴν ἐπανασείοντες ἐξουσίαν καὶ ῥίψειν αὐτὸν ἀπειλοῦντες κατὰ τῆς πέτρας, εἰ μὴ σιωπήσει.
While he was still speaking, the decemvirs stood around him, shouting and brandishing their tribunician power, and threatening to cast him down from the rock if he would not hold his peace.
ἐφʼ ᾧ πάντες ἀνέκραγον ὡς καταλυομένης σφῶν τῆς ἐλευθερίας, καὶ μεστὸν ἦν ἀγανακτήσεώς τε καὶ θορύβου τὸ συνέδριον.
At this, everyone cried out that their freedom was being destroyed, and the senate-house was full of indignation and uproar.
§11.6.2τοῖς μέντοι δέκα μετέμελεν εὐθέως τῆς τε κωλύσεως τοῦ λέγειν καὶ τῆς ἀπειλῆς, ὡς ἠρεθισμένην εἶδον ἐπὶ τῷ πράγματι τὴν βουλήν· ἔπειτα προσελθὼν ἐξ αὐτῶν Ἄππιος καὶ δεηθεὶς τῶν θορυβούντων βραχὺν ἐπισχεῖν χρόνον, ἐπειδὴ κατέστειλε τὸ ταραττόμενον αὐτῶν· §11.6.3οὐδένα ὑμῶν, εἶπεν, ἀποστεροῦμεν, ὦ ἄνδρες βουλευταί, λόγου, ὃς ἂν ἐν τῷ προσήκοντι καιρῷ λέγῃ, τοὺς δʼ ἐπιπολάζοντας καὶ πρὶν ἢ κληθῆναι προεξανισταμένους εἴργομεν.
However, the decemvirs immediately regretted both their prevention of his speaking and their threat, when they saw the senate provoked at the affair; then Appius, coming forward from among them and entreating those making an uproar to wait for a short time, after he had quieted their agitation, said: "We deprive no one of you, senators, of speech, who speaks at the fitting time, but we restrain those who behave disorderly and stand up before being called upon.
μηδὲν οὖν ἀγανακτεῖτε, καὶ γὰρ Ὁρατίῳ καὶ Οὐαλερίῳ καὶ παντὶ ἄλλῳ γνώμην ἀγορεύειν ἐν τῷ ἑαυτοῦ τόπῳ κατὰ τὸν ἀρχαῖον ἐθισμὸν καὶ κόσμον ἀποδώσομεν, ἐάν γε περὶ ὧν βουλευσόμενοι συνεληλύθατε, περὶ §11.6.4τούτων λέγωσι καὶ μηδὲν ἔξω·
Therefore, be in no way indignant; for we shall grant both to Horatius and Valerius and to every other man the right to deliver his opinion in his own place according to the ancient custom and order, provided indeed that they speak about those things for which you have assembled to deliberate, about these things they speak, and nothing outside.
ἐὰν δὲ δημαγωγῶσιν ὑμᾶς καὶ διαστασιάζωσι τὴν πόλιν τὰ μὴ πρὸς τὸ πρᾶγμα δημηγοροῦντες, οὐδὲν τότε·
But if they play the demagogue with you and divide the city by haranguing on things not to the purpose, then no indeed.
τὴν δʼ ἐξουσίαν τοῦ κωλύειν τοὺς ἀκοσμοῦντας, ὦ Μάρκε Ὁράτιε, παρὰ τοῦ δήμου λαβόντες ἔχομεν, ὅτε ἡμῖν καὶ τὴν τῶν ὑπάτων καὶ τὴν τῶν δημάρχων ἀρχὴν ἐψηφίσαντο, καὶ ὁ χρόνος αὐτῆς οὔπω παρελήλυθεν, ὥσπερ σοι δοκεῖ.
But the power to restrain those who are disorderly, Marcus Horatius, we hold having received it from the people, when they voted us both the consular and the tribunician office, and the time of this office has not yet expired, as you think.
§11.6.5οὐ γὰρ εἰς ἐνιαυτὸν ἀπεδείχθημεν, οὐδʼ εἰς ἄλλον τινὰ χρόνον ὡρισμένον, ἀλλʼ ἕως ἂν καταστησώμεθα πᾶσαν τὴν νομοθεσίαν.
For we were not appointed for a year, nor for any other defined time, but until we should establish the entire legislation.
συντελέσαντες οὖν, ὅσα κατὰ νοῦν ἔχομεν, καὶ κυρώσαντες τοὺς λοιποὺς νόμους, τότʼ ἀποθησόμεθα τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ λόγον τῶν πεπραγμένων τοῖς βουλομένοις ὑμῶν ὑφέξομεν.
Therefore, having completed all that we have in mind and having ratified the remaining laws, we shall then lay down our office and render an account of our deeds to those of you who wish.
τέως δʼ οὐδὲν ἐλαττώσομεν οὐδὲ τῆς ὑπατικῆς ἐξουσίας οὐδὲ §11.6.6τῆς δημαρχικῆς.
In the meantime, we shall in no way diminish either the consular power or the tribunician.
περὶ δὲ τοῦ πολέμου, τίνα χρὴ τρόπον ὡς τάχιστα καὶ κάλλιστα τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἀμύνασθαι, γνώμας ἀξιῶ παριόντας ὑμᾶς λέγειν, πρώτους μέν, ὥσπερ ἐστὶ σύνηθες καὶ πρέπον ὑμῖν, τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους, ἔπειτα τοὺς μέσους, τελευταίους δὲ τοὺς νεωτάτους.
But concerning the war, in what manner it is necessary to defend against the enemies as quickly and as finely as possible, I ask you to come forward and declare your opinions—first, as is customary and fitting for you, the joys of the elders, then those of middle age, and lastly the youngest."