§6.69.1ταῦτʼ εἰπὼν ἐπαύσατο.
Having said this, he ceased speaking.
ἐπεὶ δʼ αἱ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων γνῶμαι τῇ Μενηνίου προσέθεντο, καὶ καθῆκεν ὁ λόγος ἐπὶ τοὺς νεωτέρους, ὀρθῆς οὔσης ἁπάσης τῆς βουλῆς ἀνίσταται Σπόριος Ναύτιος, οἰκίας ἐν τοῖς πάνυ λαμπροτάτης διάδοχος· ὁ γὰρ ἡγεμὼν αὐτῶν τοῦ γένους Ναύτιος ἀπὸ τῶν σὺν Αἰνείᾳ στειλάντων τὴν ἀποικίαν, ὃς ἦν Ἀθηνᾶς ἱερεὺς Πολιάδος καὶ τὸ ξόανον ἀπηνέγκατο τῆς θεᾶς μετανιστάμενος, ὃ διεφύλαττον ἄλλοι παρʼ ἄλλων μεταλαμβάνοντες οἱ τοῦ γένους ὄντες τοῦ Ναυτίων· ὃς ἐδόκει καὶ διὰ τὴν οἰκείαν ἀρετὴν λαμπρότατος εἶναι τῶν νέων, καὶ οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν τῆς ὑπατικῆς ἐξουσίας τεύξεσθαι.
And when the opinions of the older members had been added to that of Menenius, and the turn to speak came down to the younger men, while the whole senate was standing, Spurius Nautius rose, the successor of a most illustrious house; for the founder of their family, Nautius, was one of those who set out on the colony with Aeneas, who was a priest of Athena Polias and carried away the wooden statue of the goddess when migrating, which those who belonged to the family of the Nautii preserved, receiving it one from another; and this Spurius Nautius was thought, also because of his own virtue, to be the most illustrious of the young men, and likely to obtain the consular power before long.
§6.69.2ἀρξάμενος δʼ ἀπολογεῖσθαι κοινὴν ἀπολογίαν ὑπὲρ ἁπάντων τῶν νέων, ὡς οὔτε φιλονεικίᾳ τῇ πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας οὔτε αὐθαδείᾳ χρησαμένων, ὅτε τὴν ἐναντίαν ἔσχον ἐν τῇ προτέρᾳ βουλῇ προαίρεσιν, ἀλλʼ εἴπερ ἄρα ἡμάρτανον διὰ τὴν ἡλικίαν γνώμῃ σφαλέντων, τελευτῶν ἔφη τὸ πιστὸν τούτου παρέξεσθαι τὴν μεταβολήν.
Beginning to make a common defense on behalf of all the young men, that they had acted neither from rivalry toward their fathers nor from self-will when they took the contrary resolution in the previous senate, but that, if indeed they had erred, they had stumbled in judgment because of their age, he said in conclusion that their change of mind would provide the proof of this.
συγχωρεῖν γοῦν αὐτοῖς ὡς ἄμεινον φρονοῦσιν ἐπιψηφίζεσθαι πᾶν, ὅ τι ἂν ἡγῶνται τῷ κοινῷ συμφέρειν, ὡς οὐδὲν σφῶν γε πρὸς ταῦτʼ ἐναντιωσομένων, ἀλλὰ §6.69.3πεισομένων τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις.
At any rate, they conceded to them, on the ground that they thought more wisely, to vote for whatever they deemed advantageous to the common interest, as they themselves would in no way oppose these measures, but would obey the elders.
ὅμοια δὲ τούτῳ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων νέων ἀποφηναμένων ἐκτὸς ὀλίγων τινῶν πάνυ τῶν Ἀππίου συγγενῶν ἐπαινέσαντες τὴν εὐκοσμίαν αὐτῶν οἱ ὕπατοι καὶ παρακαλέσαντες εἰς πάντα τὰ κοινὰ τοιούτους ἑαυτοὺς παρέχειν πρεσβευτὰς εἵλοντο δέκα τοὺς ἐπιφανεστάτους τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, ἐκτὸς ἑνὸς ἅπαντας ὑπατικούς.
When the other young men also had declared sentiments similar to this, except for a very few who were relatives of Appius, the consuls, having praised their orderly behavior and exhorted them to show themselves such in all public affairs, chose ten of the most illustrious of the elders as ambassadors, all of whom except one had been consuls.
οἱ δʼ ἀποδειχθέντες ἦσαν οἵδε· Ἀγρίππας Μενήνιος Γαΐου υἱὸς Λαινάτης, Μάνιος Οὐαλέριος Οὐολούσσου υἱὸς. . . Πόπλιος Σερουίλιος Ποπλίου υἱὸς. . . Πόπλιος Ποστούμιος Κοίντου υἱὸς Τούβερτος, Τῖτος Αἰβούτιος Τίτου υἱὸς Φλαούιος, Σέρβιος Σολπίκιος Ποπλίου υἱὸς Καμερῖνος, Αὖλος Ποστούμιος Ποπλίου υἱὸς Βάλβος, Αὖλος Οὐεργίνιος Αὔλου υἱὸς Καιλιμοντανός.
And those appointed were these: Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, son of Gaius; Manius Valerius, son of Volusus...; Publius Servilius, son of Publius...; Publius Postumius Tubertus, son of Quintus; Titus Aebutius Flavus, son of Titus; Servius Sulpicius Camerinus, son of Publius; Aulus Postumius Balbus, son of Publius; Aulus Virginius Caeliomontanus, son of Aulus.
§6.69.4μετὰ ταῦτα τῆς βουλῆς διαλυθείσης οἱ μὲν ὕπατοι προελθόντες εἰς ἐκκλησίαν τὸ δόγμα τῆς βουλῆς ἀνέγνωσαν καὶ τοὺς πρεσβευτὰς παρήγαγον· ἁπάντων δʼ ἀξιούντων τὰς ἐντολάς, ἃς ἔδωκαν αὐτοῖς, μαθεῖν, εἶπον ἐν τῷ φανερῷ, πράττειν, ὅτῳ ἂν τρόπῳ δύνωνται, φιλίαν τῷ δήμῳ συνθέσθαι πρὸς τοὺς πατρικίους ἄτερ δόλου καὶ ἀπάτης καὶ καταγαγεῖν τοὺς φεύγοντας ἐπὶ τὰ σφέτερα ἐν τάχει.
After this, the senate being dismissed, the consuls, coming forward to the assembly, read the decree of the senate and introduced the ambassadors; and since all demanded to know the instructions which they had given them, they said in public that they should act in whatever way they could to conclude a friendship between the people and the patricians without guile and deceit, and to bring back the fugitives to their own homes in haste.