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Dionysius of Halicarnassus · Roman Antiquities §5.35.1-5.35.3

Honors for Mucius and Cloelia and the Temple

Passage 364 of 962 · Greek

Summary

The Roman senate votes honors for Porsena, Mucius, and Cloelia, while the temple of Capitoline Jupiter is completed, and military measures are taken against Mamilius's raids.

§5.35.1ἡ δὲ τῶν Ῥωμαίων βουλὴ μετὰ τὴν ἀπαλλαγὴν τῶν Τυρρηνῶν συνελθοῦσα ἐψηφίσατο Πορσίνᾳ μὲν πέμψαι θρόνον ἐλεφάντινον καὶ σκῆπτρον καὶ στέφανον χρυσοῦν καὶ θριαμβικὴν ἐσθῆτα, ᾗ οἱ βασιλεῖς ἐκοσμοῦντο· Μουκίῳ δὲ τῷ προελομένῳ περὶ τῆς πατρίδος ἀποθανεῖν αἰτιωτάτῳ δόξαντι γεγονέναι τῆς καταλύσεως τοῦ πολέμου χώραν ἐκ τῆς δημοσίας δοθῆναι πέραν τοῦ Τεβέριος ποταμοῦ, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον, ὅνπερ Ὁρατίῳ τῷ πρὸ τῆς γεφύρας ἀγωνισαμένῳ πρότερον, ὅσην ἂν ἀρότρῳ περιλαβεῖν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ δύνηται.
The Roman senate, having met after the departure of the Tyrrhenians, voted to send to Porsena an ivory throne, a sceptre, a golden crown, and a triumphal robe, with which the kings used to be adorned; and to Mucius, who had chosen to die for his country and was deemed to have been the chief cause of the termination of the war, a grant of land from the public domain on the other side of the Tiber River, in the same manner as previously to Horatius who had fought before the bridge, as much as he could enclose with a plough in a single day.
οὗτος ὁ χῶρος ἕως τῶν καθʼ ἡμᾶς χρόνων, §5.35.2Μούκιοι λειμῶνες καλοῦνται. ταῦτα μὲν τοῖς ἀνδράσι· Κλοιλίᾳ δὲ τῇ παρθένῳ στάσιν εἰκόνος χαλκῆς ἔδοσαν, ἣν ἀνέθεσαν ἐπὶ τῆς ἱερᾶς ὁδοῦ τῆς εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν φερούσης οἱ τῶν παρθένων πατέρες.
This place, down to our times, is called the "Mucian Meadows." These honors were for the men; but to the maiden Cloelia they granted the erection of a bronze statue, which the fathers of the maidens set up on the Sacred Way leading to the Forum.
ταύτην ἡμεῖς μὲν οὐκέτι κειμένην εὕρομεν, ἐλέγετο δʼ ἐμπρήσεως περὶ §5.35.3τὰς πλησίον οἰκίας γενομένης ἠφανίσθαι.
This statue we ourselves no longer found standing, but it was said to have disappeared when a fire occurred in the neighboring houses.
κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ὁ νεὼς τοῦ Καπιτωλίου Διὸς εἰς συντέλειαν ἐξειργάσθη, περὶ οὗ τὰ κατὰ μέρος ἐν τῷ πρὸ τούτου δεδήλωκα λόγῳ.
In this year the temple of Capitoline Jupiter was finished, concerning which I have detailed the particulars in the preceding book.
τὴν δʼ ἀνιέρωσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν ἐπιγραφὴν ἔλαβε Μάρκος Ὁράτιος ὁ ἕτερος τῶν ὑπάτων φθάσας τὴν παρουσίαν τοῦ συνάρχοντος.
Its dedication and the inscription were obtained by Marcus Horatius, the other of the consuls, who anticipated the arrival of his colleague.
ἐτύγχανε δὲ κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον Οὐαλέριος προεξεληλυθὼς μετὰ δυνάμεως ἐπὶ τὴν βοήθειαν τῆς χώρας.
For Valerius happened at this time to have already gone out with a force to the relief of the country.
ἄρτι γὰρ τῶν ἀνθρώπων καταλιπόντων τὰ ἐρύματα καὶ συνιόντων εἰς τοὺς ἀγροὺς λῃστήρια πέμπων Μαμίλιος μεγάλα τοὺς γεωργοὺς ἔβλαπτεν.
For as the people had just left their strongholds and were gathering in the fields, Mamilius, by sending out plundering bands, was doing great damage to the husbandmen.
ταῦτʼ ἐπὶ τῆς τρίτης ὑπατείας ἐπράχθη.
These things were done during the third consulship.

Notes

  1. §5.35.1δόξαντι — Aorist participle in the dative case modifying Μουκίῳ, meaning "deemed to have been" with the infinitive γεγονέναι. The predicate adjective αἰτιωτάτῳ is in the dative, agreeing with the recipient of the action.
  2. §5.35.1ὅσην ἂν ἀρότρῳ περιλαβεῖν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ δύνηται — A relative clause of general or future condition introduced by ὅσην ἂν with the subjunctive δύνηται. The infinitive περιλαβεῖν ("to enclose") depends on the verb of ability δύνηται.
  3. §5.35.3φθάσας — Aorist active participle of the verb φθάνω ("anticipate, forestall"), taking the accusative noun τὴν παρουσίαν ("the arrival") as its direct object. It means "having anticipated the arrival of," modifying the subject of the main verb ἔλαβε.

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities §5.35.1-5.35.3. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0081.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:5.35.1-5.35.3

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