§11.62.1οὗτοι παραλαμβάνουσι πρῶτοι τὴν ἀνθύπατον ἀρχὴν κατὰ τὸν τρίτον ἐνιαυτὸν τῆς ὀγδοηκοστῆς καὶ τετάρτης ὀλυμπιάδος ἄρχοντος Ἀθήνησι Διφίλου.
These men were the first to assume the proconsular power in the third year of the eighty-fourth Olympiad, when Diphilus was archon at Athens.
μετασχόντες δʼ αὐτῆς ἑβδομήκοντα καὶ τρεῖς μόνον ἡμέρας ἀποτίθενται κατὰ τὸν ἀρχαῖον ἐθισμὸν ἑκούσιοι, θεοπέμπτων τινῶν σημείων κωλυτηρίων αὐτοῖς τοῦ §11.62.2πράττειν τὰ κοινὰ γενομένων.
Having shared in this office for only seventy-three days, they voluntarily resigned it in accordance with ancient custom, because certain divinely sent omens had occurred to prevent them from conducting public affairs.
τούτων δὲ τὴν ἐξουσίαν ἀπειπαμένων ἡ βουλὴ συνελθοῦσα μεσοβασιλεῖς ἀποδείκνυσι.
When these men had resigned their authority, the senate met and appointed interreges.
καὶ ἐκεῖνοι προειπόντες ἀρχαιρέσια καὶ τῷ δήμῳ τὴν διάγνωσιν ἀποδιδόντες, εἴτε βούλεται χιλιάρχους εἴτε ὑπάτους ἀποδεῖξαι, κρίναντος αὐτοῦ μένειν ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἐθισμοῖς, ἀπέδοσαν τοῖς βουλομένοις τῶν πατρικίων μετιέναι τὴν ὕπατον ἀρχήν· καὶ γίνονται πάλιν ἐκ τῶν πατρικίων ὕπατοι Λεύκιος Παπίριος Μογιλλᾶνος καὶ Λεύκιος Σεμπρώνιος Ἀτρατῖνος, ἑνὸς §11.62.3τῶν ἀποθεμένων τὴν χιλιαρχίαν ἀδελφός.
And they, having proclaimed the elections and restored the decision to the people, whether they wished to appoint military tribunes or consuls, when the people decided to remain by their original customs, permitted those of the patricians who wished to seek the consulship; and there were appointed again from the patricians as consuls Lucius Papirius Mugillanus and Lucius Sempronius Atratinus, the brother of one of those who had resigned the military tribuneship.
αὗται δύο κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ἀρχαὶ Ῥωμαίων αἱ τὸ μέγιστον ἔχουσαι κράτος ἐγένοντο· πλὴν οὐκ ἐν ἁπάσαις ταῖς Ῥωμαικαῖς χρονογραφίαις ἀμφότεραι φέρονται, ἀλλʼ ἐν αἷς μὲν οἱ χιλίαρχοι μόνον, ἐν αἷς δʼ οἱ ὕπατοι, ἐν οὐ πολλαῖς δʼ ἀμφότεροι, αἷς ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἄνευ λογισμοῦ συγκατατιθέμεθα, πιστεύοντες δὲ ταῖς ἐκ τῶν ἱερῶν τε καὶ ἀποθέτων βίβλων μαρτυρίαις.
These two offices of the Romans, which possessed the greatest power, thus existed in the same year; yet they are not both recorded in all the Roman chronicles, but in some the military tribunes alone are found, and in others the consuls, and in not many are both recorded, to which we agree not without reason, but believing the testimonies from the sacred and secret books.
§11.62.4ἄλλο μὲν οὖν οὐδὲν ἐπὶ τῆς τούτων ἀρχῆς οὔτε πολεμικὸν οὔτε πολιτικὸν ἔργον ἱστορίας ἄξιον ἐπράχθη, συνθῆκαι δὲ πρὸς τὴν Ἀρδεατῶν πόλιν ἐγένοντο περὶ φιλίας τε καὶ συμμαχίας·
Now nothing else worthy of history, either in war or in civil affairs, was performed during their administration; but a treaty of friendship and alliance was made with the city of the Ardeates.
ἐπρεσβεύσαντο γὰρ ἀποτιθέμενοι τὰ περὶ τῆς χώρας ἐγκλήματα παρακαλοῦντες φίλοι Ῥωμαίων γενέσθαι καὶ σύμμαχοι.
For they sent an embassy, laying aside their complaints concerning the land, and requesting to become friends and allies of the Romans.
ταύτας τὰς συνθήκας τὸ τῶν ὑπάτων ἀρχεῖον ἐπεκύρωσε.
This treaty was ratified by the magistrates of the consuls.