§2.76.1ἃ δὲ μέλλω νῦν λέγειν ἐπιμελῆ τε αὐτὴν ἀπέδωκε τῶν ἀναγκαίων καὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐργάτιν.
And the things which I am now about to relate rendered the city diligent in procuring the necessities of life and a worker of good things.
ἐνθυμούμενος γὰρ ὁ ἀνήρ, ὅτι πόλιν τὴν μέλλουσαν ἀγαπήσειν τὰ δίκαια καὶ μενεῖν ἐν τῷ σώφρονι βίῳ τῆς ἀναγκαίου δεῖ χορηγίας εὐπορεῖν, διεῖλε τὴν χώραν ἅπασαν εἰς τοὺς καλουμένους πάγους καὶ κατέστησεν ἐφʼ ἑκάστου τῶν πάγων ἄρχοντα ἐπίσκοπόν τε καὶ περίπολον τῆς ἰδίας μοίρας.
For the man, considering that a city which is to love justice and remain in a temperate life must enjoy an abundance of necessary provisions, divided the whole country into the districts called "pagi", and appointed over each of the districts a magistrate to be both inspector and patrol of his own portion.
§2.76.2οὗτοι γὰρ περιιόντες θαμινὰ τοὺς εὖ τε καὶ κακῶς εἰργασμένους τῶν ἀγρῶν ἀπεγράφοντο καὶ πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα ἀπέφαινον, ὁ δὲ τοὺς μὲν ἐπιμελεῖς γεωργοὺς ἐπαίνοις τε καὶ φιλανθρωπίαις ἀνελάμβανε, τοὺς δὲ ἀργοὺς ὀνειδίζων τε καὶ ζημιῶν ἐπὶ τὸ θεραπεύειν ἄμεινον τὴν γῆν προὐτρέπετο.
For these, going about frequently, registered those of the fields that were well or ill cultivated and reported them to the king; and he, on the one hand, encouraged the diligent husbandmen with praises and benefits, and on the other, by reproaching and fining the idle, urged them to cultivate the land better.
τοιγάρτοι πολέμων τε ἀπηλλαγμένοι καὶ τῶν κατὰ πόλιν πραγμάτων σχολὴν πολλὴν ἄγοντες ἀργίας τε καὶ βλακείας σὺν αἰσχύνῃ τίνοντες δίκας αὐτουργοὶ πάντες ἐγίνοντο καὶ τὸν ἐκ γῆς πλοῦτον ἁπάντων ὄντα δικαιότατον τῆς στρατιωτικῆς καὶ οὐκ ἐχούσης τὸ βέβαιον εὐπορίας γλυκύτερον ἐτίθεντο.
Consequently, being free from wars and having much leisure from the affairs of the city, and paying the penalty for idleness and laziness with shame, they all became self-working farmers, and esteemed the wealth from the earth, which is the most just of all, to be sweeter than the military and insecure abundance.
§2.76.3τῷ δὲ Νόμᾳ περιῆν ἐκ τούτων φιλεῖσθαι μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀρχομένων, ζηλοῦσθαι δʼ ὑπὸ τῶν περιοίκων, μνημονεύεσθαι δʼ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπιγινομένων· διʼ ὧν οὔτε στάσις ἐμφύλιος τὴν πολιτικὴν ἔλυσεν ὁμόνοιαν, οὔτε πόλεμος ἀλλοεθνὴς ἐκ τῶν κρατίστων καὶ θαυμασιωτάτων τὴν πόλιν ἐπιτηδευμάτων ἐκίνησε.
And from these things it was Numa's fortune to be loved by his subjects, to be envied by his neighbours, and to be remembered by posterity; through which things neither civil strife dissolved the political harmony, nor foreign war moved the city from its best and most admirable practices.
τοσοῦτον γὰρ ἀπέσχον οἱ περίοικοι τὴν ἀπόλεμον ἡσυχίαν Ῥωμαίων ἀφορμὴν τῆς κατʼ αὐτῶν ἐπιθέσεως ὑπολαβεῖν, ὥστε καὶ εἴ τις αὐτοῖς πρὸς ἀλλήλους συνέστη πόλεμος διαλλακτῆρας ἐποιοῦντο Ῥωμαίους καὶ ἐπὶ διαιτητῇ Νόμᾳ §2.76.4τὰς ἔχθρας διαλύειν ἠξίουν.
For the neighbours were so far from regarding the warless tranquillity of the Romans as an opportunity for attacking them, that even if any war arose among themselves, they made the Romans peace-makers and, with Numa as arbitrator, desired to dissolve their enmities.
τοῦτον οὖν οὐκ ἂν αἰσχυνθείην ἐγὼ τὸν ἄνδρα τῶν ἐπʼ εὐδαιμονίᾳ διαβοηθέντων ἐν τοῖς πρώτοις καταριθμεῖν.
I, therefore, should not be ashamed to number this man among the first of those celebrated for happiness.
γένους τε γὰρ ἔφυ βασιλείου καὶ μορφῆς ἀπέλαυσε βασιλικῆς παιδείαν τε οὐ τὴν περὶ λόγους ἄχρηστον ἤσκησεν, ἀλλʼ ἐξ ἧς εὐσεβεῖν ἔμαθε καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἐπιτηδεύειν ἀρετάς.
For he was born of royal stock, enjoyed a kingly form, and practiced not the useless education concerning words, but that from which he learned to be pious and to practice the other virtues.
§2.76.5ἡγεμονίαν δὲ τὴν Ῥωμαίων παραλαβεῖν ἠξιώθη νέος ὢν κατὰ κλέος ἀρετῆς ὑπʼ αὐτῶν ἐπίκλητος ἀχθεὶς καὶ διετέλεσε πειθομένοις ἅπαντα τὸν βίον τοῖς ἀρχομένοις χρώμενος·
And he was deemed worthy to take over the hegemony of the Romans when he was young, being summoned by them on account of the fame of his virtue, and he continued throughout his life having subjects who were obedient in all things.
ἡλικίας δʼ ἐπὶ μήκιστον ἤλασεν ὁλόκληρος οὐδὲν ὑπὸ τῆς τύχης κακωθεὶς καὶ θανάτων τὸν ῥᾷστον ἐτελεύτησεν ὑπὸ γήρως μαρανθείς, ὁμοίου παραμείναντος αὐτῷ τοῦ συγκληρωθέντος ἐξ ἀρχῆς δαίμονος ἕως ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἠφανίσθη, βιώσας μὲν ὑπὲρ ὀγδοήκοντα ἔτη, βασιλεύσας δὲ τρία καὶ τετταράκοντα, γενεὰν δὲ καταλιπών, ὡς μὲν οἱ πλείους γράφουσιν, υἱοὺς τέτταρας καὶ θυγατέρα μίαν, ὧν ἔτι σώζεται τὰ γένη, ὡς δὲ Γέλλιος Γναῖος ἱστορεῖ θυγατέρα μόνην, ἐξ ἧς ἐγένετο Ἄγκος Μάρκιος ὁ τρίτος ἀπʼ ἐκείνου γενόμενος Ῥωμαίων βασιλεύς.
And he drove his life to the longest age unimpaired, having suffered no harm from fortune, and died the easiest of deaths, withered by old age, his destiny which had been allotted to him from the beginning remaining similar with him until he vanished from among men. He lived over eighty years, and reigned forty-three, leaving a posterity, as most write, of four sons and one daughter, whose families still survive, but as Gnaeus Gellius records, only one daughter, from whom was born Ancus Marcius, who became the third king of the Romans after him.
§2.76.6τελευτήσαντι δʼ αὐτῷ πένθος μέγα προὔθετο ἡ πόλις καὶ ταφὰς ἐποιήσατο λαμπροτάτας.
And when he died, the city made a great mourning for him and performed most splendid funerals.
κεῖται δʼ ἐν Ἰανίκλῳ πέραν τοῦ Τεβέριος ποταμοῦ.
He lies in Janiculum, across the river Tiber.
καὶ τὰ μὲν περὶ Πομπιλίου Νόμα τοσαῦτα παρελάβομεν.
And such are the things concerning Numa Pompilius that we have received.