§20.13.1ὁ ὕπατος Φαβρίκιος τιμητὴς γενόμενος ἄνδρα δυσὶ μὲν ὑπατείαις, μιᾷ δὲ δικτατωρείᾳ κεκοσμημένον, Πόπλιον Κορνήλιον Ῥουφῖνον, ἐξέβαλεν ἐκ τοῦ συνεδρίου τῆς βουλῆς, ὅτι πρῶτος ἐν ἀργυρῶν ἐκπωμάτων κατασκευῇ πολυτελὴς ἔδοξε γενέσθαι, δέκα λίτρας ἐκπωμάτων κτησάμενος· αὗται δʼ εἰσὶν. ὀλίγῳ πλείους ὀκτὼ μνῶν Ἀττικῶν.
Fabricius, the former consul, having become censor, expelled Publius Cornelius Rufinus, a man adorned with two consulships and one dictatorship, from the senate, because he was the first who was deemed luxurious in the acquisition of silver cups, having acquired ten litras of cups; these are a little more than eight Attic minae.
§20.13.2Ἀθηναῖοι μὲν δόξης ἔτυχον, ὅτι τοὺς ῥᾳθύμους καὶ ἀργοὺς καὶ μηδὲν ἐπιτηδεύοντας τῶν χρησίμων ὡς ἀδικοῦντας τὸ κοινὸν ἐζημίουν, Λακεδαιμόνιοι δέ, ὅτι τοῖς πρεσβυτάτοις ἐπέτρεπον τοὺς ἀκοσμοῦντας τῶν πολιτῶν ἐν ὁτῳδήτινι τῶν δημοσίων τόπῳ ταῖς βακτηρίαις παίειν· τῶν δὲ κατʼ οἰκίαν γενομένων οὔτε πρόνοιαν οὔτε φυλακὴν ἐποιοῦντο, τὴν αὔλειον θύραν ἑκάστου ὅρον εἶναι τῆς ἐλευθερίας τοῦ βίου νομίζοντες.
The Athenians obtained glory because they punished the indolent and idle and those who practiced nothing useful, as injuring the state; and the Lacedaemonians, because they permitted the eldest to strike with their staffs those of the citizens who behaved in a disorderly manner in any of the public places; but they made neither provision nor watch over what happened at home, thinking that the courtyard door of each was the boundary of freedom of life.
§20.13.3Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ πᾶσαν ἀναπετάσαντες οἰκίαν καὶ μέχρι τοῦ δωματίου τὴν ἀρχὴν τῶν τιμητῶν προαγαγόντες ἁπάντων ἐποίησαν ἐπίσκοπον καὶ φύλακα τῶν ἐν αὐταῖς γινομένων, οὔτε δεσπότην οἰόμενοι δεῖν ὠμὸν εἶναι περὶ τὰς τιμωρίας οἰκετῶν οὔτε πατέρα πικρὸν ἢ μαλθακὸν πέρα τοῦ μετρίου περὶ τέκνων ἀγωγὰς οὔτε ἄνδρα περὶ κοινωνίαν γαμετῆς γυναικὸς ἄδικον οὔτε παῖδας γηραιῶν ἀπειθεῖς πατέρων οὔτε ἀδελφοὺς γνησίους τὸ πλεῖον ἀντὶ τοῦ ἴσου διώκοντας, οὐ συμπόσια καὶ μέθας παννυχίους, οὐκ ἀσελγείας καὶ φθορὰς ἡλικιωτῶν νέων, οὐχ ἱερῶν ἢ ταφῶν προγονικὰς τιμὰς ἐκλιπούσας, οὐκ ἄλλο τῶν παρὰ τὸ καθῆκον ἢ συμφέρον τῇ πόλει πραττομένων οὐδέν.
But the Romans, opening every house and extending the authority of the censors even to the bedchamber, made them the overseer and guardian of everything that happened in them, thinking that neither a master ought to be cruel in the punishment of his slaves, nor a father harsh or soft beyond measure in the training of his children, nor a husband unjust in his partnership with his wedded wife, nor children disobedient to their aged fathers, nor true brothers pursuing the larger share instead of equality, nor should there be banquets and all-night revels, nor wantonness and corruption of young contemporaries, nor ancestral honors of temples or tombs neglected, nor anything else of things done contrary to duty or the interest of the state.
ἐληίζοντο τὰς κτήσεις τῶν πολιτῶν κατὰ τὴν τοῦ βασιλίζειν αἰτίαν.
They plundered the possessions of the citizens on the charge of aspiring to kingly power.