§5.12.1ταῦτα τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀμφοτέροις παραινοῦντος καὶ τῶν πολιτῶν ἐπαινεσάντων τὸν λόγον, ὁ μὲν Κολλατῖνος πολλὰ κατολοφυρόμενος ἑαυτόν, εἰ διὰ συγγενῶν ἔλεον ἐκλιπεῖν ἀναγκασθήσεται τὴν πατρίδα μηδὲν ἀδικῶν, ἀποτίθεται τὴν ἀρχήν.
While this man was advising both of them in this way,and the citizens were praising his speech, Collatinus, deeply lamenting his own fortune, that though he had done no wrong he should be forced to leave his country because of compassion for his kinsmen, laid down his office.
§5.12.2ὁ δὲ Βροῦτος ἐπαινέσας αὐτὸν ὡς τὰ κράτιστα καὶ συμφορώτατα ἑαυτῷ τε καὶ τῇ πόλει βεβουλευμένον παρεκάλει μήτʼ αὐτῷ μήτε τῇ πατρίδι μνησικακεῖν· ἑτέραν δὲ μεταλαβόντα οἴκησιν τὴν καταλειπομένην πατρίδα ἡγεῖσθαι, μηδενὸς μήτʼ ἔργου μήτε λόγου κοινωνοῦντα τοῖς ἐχθροῖς κατʼ αὐτῆς· τὸ δʼ ὅλον ἀποδημίαν ὑπολαβόντα τὴν μετανάστασιν, οὐκ ἐξορισμὸν οὐδὲ φυγήν, τὸ μὲν σῶμα παρὰ τοῖς ὑποδεξαμένοις ἔχειν, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν παρὰ τοῖς προπέμπουσι.
And Brutus, having praised him as having taken the best and most advantageous counsel for both himself and the city, exhorted him to bear no resentment either against himself or against his country; and having moved to another habitation, to regard the country he was leaving as still his country, sharing in no deed or word with her enemies against her; and in general, looking upon his emigration as a journey abroad, and not as banishment or exile, to keep his body indeed among those who received him, but his soul among those who sent him forth.
ταῦτα δʼ ὑποθέμενος τῷ ἀνδρὶ πείθει τὸν δῆμον εἴκοσι ταλάντων δοῦναι αὐτῷ δωρεὰν καὶ αὐτὸς πέντε τάλαντα προστίθησιν ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων.
Having given him these suggestions, he persuaded the people to give him a gift of twenty talents,and he himself added five talents from his private property.
§5.12.3Ταρκύνιος μὲν δὴ Κολλατῖνος τοιαύτῃ τύχῃ περιπεσὼν εἰς Λαουίνιον ᾤχετο τὴν μητρόπολιν τοῦ Λατίνων γένους, ἐν ᾗ γηραιὸς ἐτελεύτα·
Thus Tarquinius Collatinus, having met with such a fortune,departed for Lavinium, the mother-city of the Latin race, where he died at an advanced age.
ὁ δὲ Βροῦτος οὐκ ἀξιῶν μόνος ἄρχειν οὐδʼ εἰς ὑπόνοιαν ἐλθεῖν τοῖς πολίταις, ὅτι μοναρχίας ὑπαχθεὶς πόθῳ τὸν συνύπατον ἐξήλασεν ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος, καλέσας τὸν δῆμον εἰς τὸ πεδίον, ἔνθα σύνηθες αὐτοῖς ἦν τούς τε βασιλεῖς καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἀρχὰς καθιστάναι, συνάρχοντα αἱρεῖται Πόπλιον Οὐαλέριον, ἀπόγονον, ὡς καὶ πρότερον εἶπον, τοῦ Σαβίνου Οὐαλερίου, ἄνδρα πολλῶν μὲν καὶ ἄλλων ἐπιτηδευμάτων χάριν ἐπαινεῖσθαί τε καὶ θαυμάζεσθαι ἄξιον, μάλιστα δὲ τῆς αὐταρκείας τοῦ βίου.
But Brutus, not thinking it right to rule alone, nor wishing to incur suspicion among the citizens that, led by a desire for monarchy, he had driven his colleague out of the country, having called the people together in the plain where it was their custom to appoint both the kings and the other magistrates, chose as his colleague Publius Valerius, a descendant, as I said before, of the Sabine Valerius, a man worthy of praise and admiration for many other virtues, but especially for the moderation of his life.
φιλοσοφία γάρ τις αὐτοδίδακτος ἐγένετο περὶ αὐτόν, ἣν ἐν πολλοῖς ἀπεδείξατο πράγμασιν, ὑπὲρ ὧν ὀλίγον ὕστερον ἐρῶ.
For he possessed a kind of self-taught philosophy, which he displayed in many actions, of which I shall speak a little later.