§6.70.1ταύτας οἱ πρέσβεις παρʼ αὐτῶν λαβόντες τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐθημερὸν ἐξῄεσαν.
Having received these instructions from them, the ambassadors set out on the same day.
φθάσασα δὲ τὴν παρουσίαν αὐτῶν ἡ φήμη διήγγειλε τοῖς ἐπὶ στρατοπέδου πάντα τὰ ἐν τῇ πόλει γενόμενα, καὶ αὐτίκα πάντες ἐκλιπόντες τὸ ἔρυμα ὑπήντων ἔτι καθʼ ὁδὸν οὖσι τοῖς πρεσβευταῖς.
But rumor, outstripping their arrival, announced to those in the camp everything that had happened in the city; and immediately they all left the entrenchment and went to meet the ambassadors while they were still on their way.
ἦν δέ τις ἐν τῷ στρατοπέδῳ πάνυ ταραχώδης καὶ στασιαστὴς ἀνήρ, ὀξὺς τῇ γνώμῃ προιδεῖν τι τῶν ἐσομένων ἐκ πολλοῦ, καὶ εἰπεῖν ὅ τι νοήσειεν ὡς λάλος καὶ κωτίλος οὐκ ἀδύνατος, ὃς ἐκαλεῖτο μὲν Λεύκιος Ἰούνιος, ὁμώνυμος τῷ καταλύσαντι τοὺς βασιλεῖς, ἐκπληρῶσαι δὲ τὴν ὁμωνυμίαν βουλόμενος ἠξίου καὶ Βροῦτος ἐπικαλεῖσθαι.
There was in the camp a very turbulent and seditious man, sharp-witted in anticipating far in advance something of what was to happen, and not incapable of expressing whatever he had in mind, being talkative and fluent. He was called Lucius Junius, having the same name as the man who had overthrown the kings; and wishing to make the homonymy complete, he claimed to be called Brutus as well.
τοῖς δʼ ἄρα πολλοῖς γέλως ἐπὶ τῇ κενοσπουδίᾳ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου εἰσήρχετο, καὶ ὅτε βουληθεῖεν ἐπισκώπτειν αὐτὸν Βροῦτον ἐπεκάλουν.
Consequently, most people were moved to laughter at the man's vanity, and whenever they wished to mock him, they would call him Brutus.
§6.70.2οὗτος ὁ ἀνὴρ τὸν ἡγεμόνα τοῦ στρατοπέδου Σικίννιον διδάξας, ὡς οὐκ ἄμεινον εἴη τῷ δήμῳ ῥᾳδίως ἑαυτὸν ἐπιτρέπειν τοῖς προτεινομένοις, ἵνα μὴ ἀπʼ ἐλάττονος ἀξιώσεως ἀτιμοτέραν εὕρηται τὴν κάθοδον, ἀλλʼ ἐναντιοῦσθαι μέχρι πολλοῦ καὶ τραγῳδίαν τινὰ ἐπιθεῖναι τοῖς πράγμασι προσποιητόν, ὑποσχόμενός τʼ αὐτὸς ἀναλήψεσθαι τὸν ὑπὲρ τοῦ δήμου λόγον τά τʼ ἄλλα ὑποθέμενος, ἃ χρὴ πράττειν ἢ λέγειν, ἔπεισε τὸν Σικίννιον.
This man, having instructed Sicinius, the leader of the camp, that it would not be better for the people to commit themselves easily to the proposals, lest, from a lower estimation of themselves, they should find their return less honorable, but that they should oppose them to the last and add some feigned theatrical display to the proceedings; and having promised that he himself would undertake the speech on behalf of the people, and having suggested the other things that they ought to do or say, he persuaded Sicinius.
καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ὁ μὲν Σικίννιος συγκαλέσας εἰς ἐκκλησίαν τὸν δῆμον ἐκέλευσε τοὺς πρεσβευτὰς ὑπὲρ ὧν ἥκουσι λέγειν.
And after this, Sicinius, having called the people to an assembly, ordered the ambassadors to state the business for which they had come.