§5.1.1ἡ μὲν δὴ βασιλικὴ Ῥωμαίων πολιτεία διαμείνασα μετὰ τὸν οἰκισμὸν τῆς Ῥώμης ἐτῶν τεττάρων καὶ τετταράκοντα καὶ διακοσίων ἀριθμόν, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ τελευταίου βασιλέως τυραννὶς γενομένη διὰ ταύτας τὰς προφάσεις καὶ ὑπὸ τούτων κατελύθη τῶν ἀνδρῶν, ὀλυμπιάδος μὲν ὀγδόης καὶ ἑξηκοστῆς ἐνεστώσης, ἣν ἐνίκα στάδιον Ἰσχόμαχος Κροτωνιάτης, Ἀθήνησι δὲ §5.1.2τὴν ἐνιαύσιον ἀρχὴν ἔχοντος Ἰσαγόρου.
The royal government of the Romans, having lasted for the number of two hundred and forty-four years after the founding of Rome, but having become a tyranny under the last king, was overthrown for these reasons and by these men, during the sixty-eighth Olympiad, in which Ischomachus of Croton won the stade race, and at Athens when Isagoras held the annual office.
ἀριστοκρατίας δὲ γενομένης οἱ πρῶτοι τὴν βασιλικὴν ἀρχὴν παραλαβόντες ὕπατοι τεττάρων μηνῶν εἰς τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ἐκεῖνον ἐπιλειπομένων Λεύκιος Ἰούνιος Βροῦτος καὶ Λεύκιος Ταρκύνιος Κολλατῖνος, οὓς καλοῦσι Ῥωμαῖοι κατὰ τὴν ἑαυτῶν διάλεκτον ὥσπερ ἔφην προβούλους, ἑτέρους παραλαβόντες πολλοὺς ἐλθόντων εἰς τὴν πόλιν τῶν ἀπὸ στρατοπέδου μετὰ τὰς σπονδὰς τὰς γενομένας αὐτοῖς πρὸς Ἀρδεάτας, ὀλίγαις ὕστερον ἡμέραις τῆς ἐκβολῆς τοῦ τυράννου συγκαλέσαντες τὸν δῆμον εἰς ἐκκλησίαν καὶ πολλοὺς ὑπὲρ ὁμονοίας λόγους ποιησάμενοι ψήφισμά τε πάλιν ἐπεκύρωσαν ἕτερον, περὶ ὧν οἱ κατὰ πόλιν ὄντες πρότερον ἐπεψηφίσαντο φυγὴν Ταρκυνίοις ἐπιβαλόντες ἀίδιον·
When the aristocracy was established, the first consuls to take over the royal power, with four months remaining in that year, Lucius Junius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus—whom the Romans, as I have said, call in their own language "probouloi"— associated many others with themselves when those from the camp returned to the city after the truce made with the Ardeates; and a few days after the expulsion of the tyrant, having called the people together in an assembly and made many speeches on behalf of harmony, they confirmed another decree concerning those matters which the citizens previously in the city had voted on, imposing perpetual banishment upon the Tarquins.
§5.1.3καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο καθαρμοὺς τῆς πόλεως ποιησάμενοι καὶ ὅρκια τεμόντες αὐτοί τε πρῶτοι στάντες ἐπὶ τῶν τομίων ὤμοσαν καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους πολίτας ἔπεισαν ὀμόσαι, μὴ κατάξειν ἀπὸ τῆς φυγῆς βασιλέα Ταρκύνιον μήτε τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ μήτε τοὺς ἐξ ἐκείνων γενησομένους, βασιλέα τε τῆς Ῥωμαίων πόλεως μηκέτι καταστήσειν μηθένα μηδὲ τοῖς καθιστάναι βουλομένοις ἐπιτρέψειν.
And after this, having performed purifications for the city and made solemn covenants, they themselves first stood over the victims and swore, and persuaded the other citizens to swear, that they would never recall King Tarquinius from exile, nor his children, nor those who should be born of them, and that they would never again appoint anyone as king of the Roman city, nor permit those who wished to do so.
ταῦτα μὲν περὶ ἑαυτῶν τε καὶ τῶν τέκνων καὶ τοῦ μεθʼ ἑαυτοὺς γένους ὤμοσαν.
These things they swore concerning themselves, their children, and their descendants.
§5.1.4ἐπειδὴ δὲ πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων ἀγαθῶν αἴτιοι γεγονέναι τοῖς κοινοῖς πράγμασιν ἔδοξαν οἱ βασιλεῖς, φυλάττειν τοὔνομα τῆς ἀρχῆς, ὅσον ἂν ἡ πόλις διαμένῃ χρόνον, βουλόμενοι τοὺς ἱεροφάντας τε καὶ οἰωνομάντεις ἐκέλευσαν ἀποδεῖξαι τὸν ἐπιτηδειότατον τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, ὃς οὐδενὸς ἤμελλεν ἕξειν ἑτέρου πλὴν τῶν περὶ τὰ θεῖα σεβασμῶν τὴν προστασίαν, ἁπάσης λειτουργίας πολεμικῆς καὶ πολιτικῆς ἀφειμένος, ἱερῶν καλούμενος βασιλεύς.
But since the kings were thought to have been the authors of many great benefits to the public affairs, wishing to preserve the name of the office for as long as the city should endure, they ordered the pontiffs and augurs to appoint the most suitable of the elders, who was to have no other authority except the leadership of the sacred rites, being exempt from all military and civil duties, and called the King of Sacrifices.
καὶ καθίσταται πρῶτος ἱερῶν βασιλεὺς Μάνιος Παπίριος ἐκ τῶν πατρικίων ἀνὴρ ἡσυχίας φίλος.
And Manius Papirius, a patrician and a lover of quiet, was appointed the first King of Sacrifices.