§11.61.1ταύτην ἀποδειξαμένου τὴν γνώμην Γενυκίου πολὺς ἐξ ἁπάντων ἔπαινος ἐγίνετο, καὶ οἱ μετʼ ἐκεῖνον ἀνιστάμενοι μικροῦ δεῖν πάντες ταῦτα συνεχώρουν κράτιστα εἶναι.
When Genucius had declared this opinion, great praise arose from all, and almost all who stood up after him agreed that this was best.
γράφεται δὴ τὸ προβούλευμα ὑπὸ τῶν ὑπάτων, καὶ λαβόντες αὐτὸ μετὰ πολλῆς χαρᾶς οἱ δήμαρχοι προῆλθον εἰς τὴν ἀγοράν.
Indeed, the preliminary resolution was drafted by the consuls, and the tribunes, receiving it with great joy, went out into the forum.
ἔπειτα καλέσαντες τὸ πλῆθος εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, πολλοὺς διέθεντο τῆς βουλῆς ἐπαίνους, καὶ παραγγέλλειν τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐκέλευον τοῖς ἐθέλουσι τῶν δημοτικῶν ἅμα τοῖς πατρικίοις.
Then, having called the multitude to the assembly, they bestowed many praises upon the senate, and urged those of the plebeians who wished, together with the patricians, to declare their candidacy for the office.
§11.61.2οὕτω δʼ ἄρα κοῦφόν τι πρᾶγμά ἐστιν ἐπιθυμία δίχα λόγου γινομένη καὶ ταχὺ μεταπῖπτον ἐπὶ θάτερα μέρη, μάλιστα δʼ ἡ τῶν ὄχλων, ὥσθʼ οἱ περὶ παντὸς ποιούμενοι τέως τῆς ἀρχῆς μεταλαβεῖν καί, εἰ μὴ δοθείη τοῦτʼ αὐτοῖς ὑπὸ τῶν πατρικίων, ἢ καταλείψοντες τὴν πόλιν ὡς πρότερον, ἢ διὰ τῶν ὅπλων αὐτὸ ληψόμενοι, ἐπειδὴ τὸ συγχώρημα ἔλαβον, ἀπέστησαν εὐθὺς τῆς ἐπιθυμίας καὶ τὰς σπουδὰς ἐπὶ θάτερον μετέβαλον.
So light a thing, indeed, is desire that arises without reason and quickly shifts to the opposite side, and especially that of the crowds; so that those who had hitherto made it of the highest importance to share in the office, and who, if this were not granted to them by the patricians, were determined either to abandon the city as before, or to seize it by force of arms, as soon as they obtained the concession, immediately desisted from their desire and turned their zeal in another direction.
§11.61.3πολλῶν γέ τοι δημοτικῶν παραγγελλόντων τὴν χιλιαρχίαν καὶ κατεσπουδασμένας ποιουμένων τὰς δεήσεις, οὐδένα τῆς τιμῆς ταύτης ἄξιον εἶναι ὑπέλαβον, ἀλλὰ γενόμενοι τῆς ψήφου κύριοι τοὺς ἐκ τῶν πατρικίων μετιόντας αὐτὴν ἄνδρας ἐπιφανεῖς χιλιάρχους ἀποδεικνύουσιν, Αὖλον Σεμπρώνιον Ἀτρατῖνον καὶ Λεύκιον Ἀτίλιον Λοῦσκον καὶ Τίτον Κλύλιον Σικελόν.
For indeed, though many plebeians declared their candidacy for the military tribuneship and made earnest solicitations, they judged no one among them worthy of this honor; but, having become masters of the vote, they appointed as military tribunes those prominent men from among the patricians who were seeking it: Aulus Sempronius Atratinus, Lucius Atilius Luscus, and Titus Cloelius Siculus.