§2.15.1τεταγμένην μὲν οὖν καὶ κεκοσμημένην πρὸς εἰρήνην τε ἀποχρώντως καὶ πρὸς τὰ πολέμια ἐπιτηδείως ἐκ τούτων τῶν πολιτευμάτων τὴν πόλιν ὁ Ῥωμύλος ἀπειργάσατο, μεγάλην δὲ καὶ πολυάνθρωπον ἐκ τῶνδε· §2.15.2πρῶτον μὲν εἰς ἀνάγκην κατέστησε τοὺς οἰκήτορας αὐτῆς ἅπασαν ἄρρενα γενεὰν ἐκτρέφειν καὶ θυγατέρων τὰς πρωτογόνους, ἀποκτιννύναι δὲ μηδὲν τῶν γεννωμένων νεώτερον τριετοῦς, πλὴν εἴ τι γένοιτο παιδίον ἀνάπηρον ἢ τέρας εὐθὺς ἀπὸ γονῆς.
Thus, by means of these institutions, Romulus rendered the city sufficiently ordered and organized for peace and well-fitted for war; and he made it great and populous by the following means: First, he compelled its inhabitants to bring up all their male offspring and the first-born of their daughters, and to kill none of their children under three years of age, unless a child was born maimed or monstrous from birth.
ταῦτα δʼ οὐκ ἐκώλυσεν ἐκτιθέναι τοὺς γειναμένους ἐπιδείξαντας πρότερον πέντε ἀνδράσι τοῖς ἔγγιστα οἰκοῦσιν, ἐὰν κἀκείνοις συνδοκῇ.
Yet, the law did not prevent the parents from exposing these, provided they had first shown them to five of their nearest neighbors and these had also agreed.
κατὰ δὲ τῶν μὴ πειθομένων τῷ νόμῳ ζημίας ὥρισεν ἄλλας τε καὶ τῆς οὐσίας αὐτῶν τὴν ἡμίσειαν εἶναι δημοσίαν.
And against those who did not obey the law, he established various penalties, and especially that half of their property should be confiscated.
§2.15.3ἔπειτα καταμαθὼν πολλὰς τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν πόλεων πονηρῶς ἐπιτροπευομένας ὑπὸ τυραννίδων τε καὶ ὀλιγαρχιῶν, τοὺς ἐκ τούτων ἐκπίπτοντας τῶν πόλεων συχνοὺς ὄντας, εἰ μόνον εἶεν ἐλεύθεροι, διακρίνων οὔτε συμφορὰς οὔτε τύχας αὐτῶν ὑποδέχεσθαι καὶ μετάγειν ὡς ἑαυτὸν ἐπεχείρει, τήν τε Ῥωμαίων δύναμιν αὐξῆσαι βουληθεὶς καὶ τὰς τῶν περιοίκων ἐλαττῶσαι· ἐποίει δὲ ταῦτα πρόφασιν ἐξευρὼν εὐπρεπῆ καὶ εἰς θεοῦ τιμὴν τὸ ἔργον ἀναφέρων.
Next, observing that many of the cities in Italy were badly governed by tyrannies and oligarchies, and that those who were expelled from these cities were numerous, he attempted to receive them and transfer them to himself, without distinguishing either their misfortunes or their fortunes, provided only they were free, wishing both to increase the power of the Romans and to diminish that of their neighbors; and he did this by finding a specious pretext and referring the deed to the honor of a god.
§2.15.4τὸ γὰρ μεταξὺ χωρίον τοῦ τε Καπιτωλίου καὶ τῆς ἄκρας, ὃ καλεῖται νῦν κατὰ τὴν Ῥωμαίων διάλεκτον μεθόριον δυεῖν δρυμῶν καὶ ἦν τότε τοῦ συμβεβηκότος ἐπώνυμον, ὕλαις ἀμφιλαφέσι κατʼ ἀμφοτέρας τὰς συναπτούσας τοῖς λόφοις λαγόνας ἐπίσκιον, ἱερὸν ἀνεὶς ἄσυλον ἱκέταις καὶ ναὸν ἐπὶ τοὺτῳ κατασκευασάμενος ʽὅτῳ δὲ ἄρα θεῶν ἢ δαιμόνων οὐκ ἔχω τὸ σαφὲς εἰπεῖνʼ τοῖς καταφεύγουσιν εἰς τοῦτο τὸ ἱερὸν ἱκέταις τοῦ τε μηδὲν κακὸν ὑπʼ ἐχθρῶν παθεῖν ἐγγυητὴς ἐγίνετο τῆς εἰς τὸ θεῖον εὐσεβείας προφάσει καὶ εἰ βούλοιντο παρʼ αὐτῷ μένειν πολιτείας μετεδίδου καὶ γῆς μοῖραν, ἣν κτήσαιτο πολεμίους ἀφελόμενος.
For having set apart the place between the Capitoline and the citadel, which is now called in the language of the Romans 'between the two groves' and was then named from the circumstance, shaded as it was by thick woods on both slopes connecting with the hills, as a sacred asylum for suppliants, and having built a temple upon it—though to which of the gods or divinities it belonged I cannot say with certainty—he became a guarantor that those suppliants who fled to this sacred precinct would suffer no harm from their enemies, under the pretext of piety toward the divine; and if they wished to remain with him, he shared with them citizenship and a portion of the land which he had acquired by taking it from the enemy.
οἱ δὲ συνέρρεον ἐκ παντὸς τόπου τὰ οἰκεῖα φεύγοντες κακὰ καὶ οὐκέτι ἑτέρωσε ἀπανίσταντο ταῖς καθʼ ἡμέραν ὁμιλίαις καὶ χάρισιν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ κατεχόμενοι.
And they flocked together from every quarter, fleeing from their domestic misfortunes, and no longer migrated elsewhere, being held fast by daily intercourse and his favors.