§3.1.1τελευτήσαντος δὲ Πομπιλίου γενομένη πάλιν· ἡ βουλὴ τῶν κοινῶν κυρία μένειν ἔγνω ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς πολιτείας, οὐδὲ τοῦ δήμου γνώμην λαβόντος ἑτέραν, καὶ καθίστησιν ἐκ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τοὺς ἄρξοντας τὴν μεσοβασίλειον ἀρχὴν εἰς ὡρισμένον τινὰ ἡμερῶν ἀριθμόν, ὑφʼ ὧν ἀποδείκνυται βασιλεύς, ὸν ἅπας ὁ δῆμος ἠξίου, Τύλλος Ὁστίλιος γένους ὢν τοιοῦδε·
When Pompilius died, the senate, having once more become in control of public affairs, decided to remain under the same constitution, the people also holding no other opinion; and they appointed from among the elders those who should hold the office of interrex for a certain number of days, by whom a king was declared, whom the whole people deemed worthy, namely Tullus Hostilius, who was of the following descent.
§3.1.2ἐκ πόλεως Μεδυλλίας, ἣν Ἀλβανοὶ μὲν ἔκτισαν, Ῥωμύλος δὲ κατὰ συνθήκας παραλαβὼν Ῥωμαίων ἐποίησεν ἀποικίαν, ἀνὴρ εὐγενὴς καὶ χρήμασι δυνατὸς Ὁστίλιος ὄνομα μετενεγκάμενος εἰς Ῥώμην τὸν βίον ἄγεται γυναῖκα ἐκ τοῦ Σαβίνων γένους Ἑρσιλίου θυγατέρα τὴν ὑφηγησαμένην ταῖς ὁμοεθνέσι πρεσβεῦσαι πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀνδρῶν, ὅτε Σαβῖνοι Ῥωμαίοις ἐπολέμουν, καὶ τοῦ συνελθεῖν εἰς φιλίαν τοὺς ἡγεμόνας αἰτιωτάτην γενέσθαι δοκοῦσαν.
From the city of Medullia, which the Albans had founded, but Romulus, having received it by treaty, made a colony of the Romans, a man of noble birth and powerful in wealth, named Hostilius, having moved his living to Rome, married a wife from the race of the Sabines, the daughter of Hersilius, she who had led the women of her own nation to go as envoys to their fathers on behalf of their husbands, when the Sabines were at war with the Romans, and who was considered to have been the chief cause of the leaders coming together in friendship.
οὗτος ὁ ἀνὴρ πολλοὺς συνδιενέγκας Ῥωμύλῳ πολέμους καὶ μεγάλα ἔργα ἀποδειξάμενος ἐν ταῖς πρὸς Σαβίνους μάχαις, ἀποθνήσκει καταλιπὼν παιδίον μονογενὲς καὶ θάπτεται πρὸς τῶν βασιλέων ἐν τῷ κρατίστῳ τῆς ἀγορᾶς τόπῳ στήλης ἐπιγραφῇ τὴν ἀρετὴν μαρτυρούσης ἀξιωθείς.
This man, having sustained many wars together with Romulus and having displayed great deeds in the battles against the Sabines, died leaving an only child, and was buried by the kings in the most conspicuous place of the forum, being deemed worthy of a pillar with an inscription testifying to his virtue.
§3.1.3ἐκ δὲ τοῦ μονογενοῦς παιδὸς εἰς ἄνδρας ἀφικομένου καὶ γάμον ἐπιφανῆ λαβόντος υἱὸς γίνεται Τύλλος Ὁστίλιος ἀνὴρ δραστήριος, ὃς ἀπεδείχθη βασιλεὺς ψήφῳ τε πολιτικῇ διενεχθείσῃ περὶ αὐτοῦ κατὰ νόμους καὶ τοῦ δαιμονίου δι’ οἰωνῶν αἰσίων ἐπικυρώσαντος τὰ δόξαντα τῷ δήμῳ.
From this only child, when he arrived at manhood and contracted a distinguished marriage, was born a son, Tullus Hostilius, an active man, who was declared king both by the political vote cast concerning him according to the laws and by the divinity confirming through favorable omens the things decided by the people.
ἔτος δὲ ἦν ἐν ᾧ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν παρέλαβεν ὁ δεύτερος ἐνιαυτὸς τῆς ἑβδόμης καὶ εἰκοστῆς ὀλυμπιάδος, ἣν ἐνίκα στάδιον Εὐρυβάτης Ἀθηναῖος ἄρχοντος Ἀθήνησι Λεωστράτου.
The year in which he took over the hegemony was the second year of the twenty-seventh Olympiad, in which Eurybates the Athenian won the stadium race, Leostratus being archon at Athens.
§3.1.4οὗτος ἔργον ἁπάντων μεγαλοπρεπέστατον ἀποδειξάμενος αὐτὸς εὐθὺς ἅμα τῷ παραλαβεῖν τὴν ἀρχὴν ἅπαν τὸ θητικὸν τοῦ δήμου καὶ ἄπορον οἰκεῖον ἔσχεν.
This man, having displayed a deed most magnificent of all immediately upon taking over the office, attached all the laboring and poor class of the people to his own interest.
ἦν δὲ τοιόνδε· χώραν εἶχον ἐξαίρετον οἱ πρὸ αὐτοῦ βασιλεῖς πολλὴν καὶ ἀγαθήν, ἐξ ἧς ἀναιρούμενοι τὰς προσόδους ἱερά τε θεοῖς ἐπετέλουν καὶ τὰς εἰς τὸν ἴδιον βίον ἀφθόνους εἶχον εὐπορίας, ἣν ἐκτήσατο μὲν Ῥωμύλος πολέμῳ τοὺς τότε κατασχόντας ἀφελόμενος, ἐκείνου δὲ ἄπαιδος ἀποθανόντος Πομπίλιος Νόμας ὁ μετʼ ἐκεῖνον βασιλεύσας ἐκαρποῦτο· ἦν δὲ οὐκέτι δημοσία κτῆσις, ἀλλὰ τῶν ἀεὶ βασιλέων κλῆρος.
And it was of this kind: the kings before him had possessed a large and fertile tract of selected land, from which, receiving the revenues, they performed the sacred rites to the gods and had an abundant supply for their own lives; Romulus had acquired this land by war, taking it from those who then held it, and when he died childless, Numa Pompilius, who reigned after him, enjoyed its fruits; but it was no longer public property, but the allotment of the kings for the time being.
§3.1.5ταύτην ὁ Τύλλος ἐπέτρεψε τοῖς μηδένα κλῆρον ἔχουσι Ῥωμαίων κατʼ ἄνδρα διανείμασθαι, τὴν πατρῴαν αὑτῷ κτῆσιν ἀρκοῦσαν ἀποφαίνων εἴς τε τὰ ἱερὰ καὶ τὰς τοῦ βίου δαπάνας.
Tullus permitted this land to be distributed man by man among those of the Romans who had no allotment, declaring that his own paternal property was sufficient for both the sacred rites and the expenses of his life.
ταύτῃ δὲ τῇ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τοὺς ἀπόρους τῶν πολιτῶν ἀνέλαβε παύσας λατρεύοντας ἐν τοῖς ἀλλοτρίοις· ἵνα δὲ μηδὲ οἰκίας ἄμοιρος εἴη τις προσετείχισε τῇ πόλει τὸν καλούμενον Καίλιον λόφον, ἔνθα ὅσοι Ῥωμαίων ἦσαν ἀνέστιοι λαχόντες τοῦ χωρίου τὸ ἀρκοῦν κατεσκευάσαντʼ οἰκίας, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν τούτῳ τῷ τόπῳ τὴν οἴκησιν εἶχεν.
And by this benevolence he relieved the poor citizens, stopping them from working as laborers on others' lands; and that no one might be without a home, he added to the city the hill called Caelian, where all the Romans who were homeless, having obtained a sufficient portion of the ground, built houses, and he himself had his dwelling in this place.
πολιτικὰ μὲν δὴ ταῦτα τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἔργα παραδίδοται λόγου ἄξια·
These, indeed, are the political deeds of the man handed down as worthy of mention.