§4.27.1μετὰ τὴν ταρκυνίου τελευτὴν αἱ παραδοῦσαι τὴν ἡγεμονίαν ἐκείνῳ πόλεις οὐκέτι φυλάττειν ἐβούλοντο τὰς ὁμολογίας Τυλλίῳ τʼ οὐκ ἀξιοῦσαι ταπεινῷ κατὰ γένος ὄντι ὑπακούειν, καὶ τὴν διαφορὰν τῶν πατρικίων τὴν πρὸς τὸν ἡγεμόνα γενομένην μεγάλην σφίσιν ὠφέλειαν παρέξειν νομίζουσαι.
After the death of Tarquinius, the cities that had surrendered the leadership to him no longer wished to keep the agreements, deeming it unworthy to obey Tullius, who was of humble birth, and thinking that the great discord that had arisen between the patricians and the leader would afford them great advantage.
§4.27.2ἤρξαντο δὲ τῆς ἀποστάσεως οἱ καλούμενοι Οὐιεντανοὶ καὶ τοῖς ἐλθοῦσι παρὰ τοῦ Τυλλίου πρεσβευταῖς ἀπεκρίναντο μηδεμίαν εἶναί σφισι πρὸς ἐκεῖνον μήθʼ ὑπὲρ ἡγεμονίας παραχωρήσεως μήτε περὶ φιλίας καὶ συμμαχίας συνθήκην.
And those called the Veientes began the revolt, and replied to the ambassadors who came from Tullius that they had no treaty with him, either concerning the surrender of the leadership or regarding friendship and alliance.
ἀρξάντων δὲ τούτων Καιρητανοί τʼ ἠκολούθησαν καὶ Ταρκυνιῆται, καὶ τελευτῶσα ἐν ὅπλοις ἦν ἅπασα ἡ Τυρρηνία.
When these took the lead, the Caeretes and the Tarquinienses followed, and at last all Etruria was in arms.
§4.27.3οὗτος ὁ πόλεμος εἴκοσι διέμεινεν ἔτη συνεχῶς πολεμούμενος εἰσβολάς τε πολλὰς ἀμφοτέρων μεγάλοις στρατεύμασι ποιουμένων εἰς τὴν ἀλλήλων καὶ παρατάξεις ἄλλας ἐπʼ ἄλλαις συνισταμένων.
This war continued to be waged for twenty years continuously, with both sides making many incursions with large armies into each other's territory and joining battle after battle.
ἐν ἁπάσαις δὲ ταῖς μάχαις κατορθῶν ὁ Τύλλιος, ὅσαι κατὰ πόλεις τε καὶ πρὸς ὅλον τὸ ἔθνος αὐτῷ συνέστησαν, καὶ τρισὶν ἐπιφανεστάτοις κοσμηθεὶς θριάμβοις τελευτῶν ἠνάγκασε τοὺς οὐκ ἀξιοῦντας ἄρχεσθαι τὸν χαλινὸν ἑκόντας λαβεῖν.
Tullius, being successful in all the battles that were fought by him against individual cities and against the whole nation, and being adorned with three most illustrious triumphs, at last forced those who did not deem it fit to be ruled to receive the rein voluntarily.
§4.27.4εἰκοστῷ δʼ οὖν ἔτει συνελθοῦσαι πάλιν αἱ δώδεκα πόλεις ἐξανηλωμέναι τῷ πολέμῳ τά τε σώματα καὶ τὰ χρήματα γνώμην ἔσχον παραδοῦναι Ῥωμαίοις τὴν ἡγεμονίαν ἐφʼ οἷς πρότερον ἐψηφίσαντο.
So in the twentieth year, the twelve cities, having met together again and being exhausted by the war in both their lives and resources, resolved to surrender the leadership to the Romans on the terms they had previously decreed.
καὶ παρῆσαν ἀπὸ πάσης πόλεως οἱ προχειρισθέντες σὺν ἱκετηρίαις ἐπιτρέποντες Τυλλίῳ τὰς πόλεις καὶ μηδὲν ἀνήκεστον βουλεῦσαι περὶ αὐτῶν ἀξιοῦντες.
And the selected delegates from every city were present with olive-branches of supplication, committing their cities to Tullius and entreating him to make no irremediable decision concerning them.
§4.27.5Τύλλιος δὲ τῆς μὲν ἀφροσύνης ἕνεκα καὶ τῶν εἰς τοὺς θεοὺς ἀσεβημάτων, οὓς ἐγγυητὰς ποιησάμενοι τῶν ὁμολογιῶν παρέβησαν τὰ συγκείμενα, πολλῶν αὐτοὺς ἔφη τιμωριῶν ἀξίους εἶναι καὶ μεγάλων· τῆς δὲ Ῥωμαίων ἐπιεικείας καὶ μετριότητος, ἐπειδὴ συγγνόντες ἀδικεῖν στέμμασι καὶ λιτανείαις παρῃτοῦντο §4.27.6τὴν ὀργήν, οὐδὲν ἐν τῷ παρόντι ἀτυχήσειν.
But Tullius said that, on the one hand, because of their folly and their impiety toward the gods whom they had made guarantors of their agreements and yet violated what had been settled, they were worthy of many great punishments; but, on the other hand, because of the clemency and moderation of the Romans, since they acknowledged their wrongdoing and with wreaths and supplications sought to appease his anger, they would suffer no misfortune for the present.
ταῦτʼ εἰπὼν καταλύεται τὸν πρὸς αὐτοὺς πόλεμον, ταῖς μὲν ἄλλαις πόλεσιν ἁπλῶς καὶ δίχα ὀργῆς μνησικάκου πολιτεύεσθαί τʼ ἀποδοὺς ὡς πρότερον καὶ τὰ ἴδια καρποῦσθαι, μενούσαις ἐν ταῖς γραφείσαις πρὸς αὐτὰς συνθήκαις ὑπὸ βασιλέως Ταρκυνίου· τρεῖς δʼ ἐξ αὐτῶν πόλεις, αἳ προεξανέστησάν τε καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἐπηγάγοντο κατὰ Ῥωμαίων ἐξενεγκεῖν τὸν πόλεμον, Καιρητανοὺς καὶ Ταρκυνιήτας καὶ Οὐιεντανούς, ἀφαιρέσει χώρας τιμωρησάμενος, ἣν κατεκληρούχησε Ῥωμαίων τοῖς νεωστὶ προσεληλυθόσι πρὸς τὴν πολιτείαν.
Having said this, he ended the war against them, permitting the other cities simply and without resentful anger to govern themselves as before and to enjoy their own properties, on condition that they remained in the treaties written with them by King Tarquinius; but the three cities among them that had revolted first and induced the others to wage war against the Romans—namely, the Caeretes, the Tarquinienses, and the Veientes—he punished by the confiscation of their territory, which he distributed by lot to those of the Romans who had recently been admitted to citizenship.
§4.27.7ταῦτα διαπραξάμενος ἐν εἰρήνῃ τε καὶ κατὰ πολέμους καὶ ναοὺς δύο κατασκευασάμενος Τύχης, ᾗ παρὰ πάντα τὸν βίον ἔδοξεν ἀγαθῇ κεχρῆσθαι, τὸν μὲν ἐν ἀγορᾷ τῇ καλουμένῃ Βοαρίᾳ, τὸν δʼ ἕτερον ἐπὶ ταῖς ἠιόσι τοῦ Τεβέριος, ἣν ἀνδρείαν προσηγόρευσεν, ὡς καὶ νῦν ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων καλεῖται· ἡλικίας τε προβεβηκὼς ἐπὶ πολὺ καὶ τῆς κατὰ φύσιν τελευτῆς οὐ μακρὰν ἀπέχων, ἐπιβουλευθεὶς ὑπὸ Ταρκυνίου τε τοῦ γαμβροῦ καὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ θυγατρὸς ἀποθνήσκει.
Having accomplished these things both in peace and in war, and having constructed two temples to Fortune, whom he seemed to have enjoyed as good throughout his whole life—one in the market-place called Boarium, and the other on the banks of the Tiber, which he named Andreia, as it is still called by the Romans—and having far advanced in age and being not far from a natural death, he died, having been plotted against by Tarquinius his son-in-law and his own daughter.
διηγήσομαι δὲ καὶ τῆς ἐπιβουλῆς τὸν τρόπον μικρὰ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν γενομένων ἀναλαβών.
And I shall narrate also the manner of the plot, taking up a few of the events that happened before.