§6.71.1παρελθὼν δὲ Μάνιος Οὐαλέριος, ὅσπερ ἦν αὐτῶν πρεσβύτατός τε καὶ δημοτικώτατος, ἐπιμαρτυρήσαντος αὐτῷ τὴν προθυμίαν τοῦ πλήθους εὐμενεστάταις φωναῖς καὶ προσηγορίαις, ἐπειδὴ σιωπῆς ἔτυχε τοιούτοις ἐχρήσατο λόγοις· οὐδὲν ὑμᾶς ἔτι τὸ κωλῦόν ἐστιν, ὦ δημόται, κατιέναι πάλιν ἐπὶ τὰ ὑμέτερα καὶ διηλλάχθαι πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας.
And Manius Valerius, who was the oldest and the most devoted to the people among them, stepped forward, and after the crowd had testified to their enthusiasm for him with the most friendly shouts and greetings, when he obtained silence, he made use of the following words: "There is nothing any longer to prevent you, citizens, from returning again to your own homes and being reconciled to the fathers.
§6.71.2ἐψήφισται γὰρ ἡ βουλὴ καλὴν καὶ συμφέρουσαν ὑμῖν κάθοδον, καὶ γνώμην πεποίηται μηδενὸς τῶν γεγονότων μνησικακεῖν· ἡμᾶς τε οὓς ἐγίγνωσκε φιλοδημοτάτους ὄντας καὶ πρὸς ὑμῶν τὰ δίκαια τιμωμένους πρεσβευτὰς ἀπέσταλκεν αὐτοκράτορας ἀποδείξασα τῶν διαλύσεων, ἵνα μὴ δόξαις μηδʼ εἰκασμοῖς χρώμενοι περὶ τῆς ὑμετέρας γνώμης, ἀλλὰ παρʼ αὐτῶν ὑμῶν ἀκούσαντες, ἐφʼ οἷς ἀξιοῦτε καταλύσασθαι τὴν διχοστασίαν, ἂν ᾖ μέτριόν τι τῶν αἰτημάτων καὶ μήτε τῷ ἀδυνάτῳ μήτε ὑπʼ ἄλλης αἰσχύνης ἀνηκέστου κωλύηται, συγχωρῶμεν ὑμῖν μηκέτι τὴν τοῦ συνεδρίου γνώμην ἐκδεχόμενοι, μηδʼ εἰς χρόνους μακροὺς καὶ φθόνους ἀντιπάλων ἀναβάλλοντες τὰ πράγματα.
For the senate has voted a noble and advantageous return for you, and has resolved to bear no malice for any of the things that have happened; and they have sent us, whom they knew to be the most devoted to the people and honored by you with just respect, having appointed us ambassadors with full power to make the settlement, so that we, not employing opinions or conjectures about your mind, but hearing from yourselves upon what terms you deem it right to end the discord, if any of your demands is moderate and is prevented neither by impossibility nor by any other irreparable dishonor, may grant it to you, no longer waiting for the decision of the senate, nor postponing matters to a long time and to the envy of your adversaries.
§6.71.3ταῦτα δὴ τῆς βουλῆς ἐψηφισμένης δέχεσθε ἄσμενοι τὰς χάριτας αὐτῶν, ὦ δημόται, μετὰ πάσης προθυμίας καὶ σπουδῆς, ἐν μεγάλῳ τιθέμενοι τὴν τοσαύτην εὐτυχίαν καὶ πολλὴν τοῖς θεοῖς χάριν εἰδότες αὐτῆς, εἰ πόλις ἡ Ῥωμαίων ἡ τοσούτων ἄρχουσα ἀνθρώπων, καὶ συνέδριον, ὃ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν ἔχει πάντων τῶν ἐν ταύτῃ καλῶν, οὐκ ὂν αὐτοῖς πάτριον οὐδενὶ τῶν ἀντιπάλων εἴκειν, ὑμῖν μόνοις ὑποκατακλίνονται τῆς ἀξιώσεως ἑκόντες, καὶ οὔτε ἀκριβολογεῖσθαι περὶ τῶν καθηκόντων ἑκατέροις ἠξίωσαν ὡς ὑποδεεστέροις κρείττονες, ἀλλʼ αὐτοὶ πρότεροι περὶ διαλύσεως ἐπρεσβεύσαντο, οὔτε τὰς αὐθάδεις ὑμῶν ἀποκρίσεις, ἃς ἐποιήσασθε πρὸς τοὺς προτέρους πρέσβεις, πρὸς ὀργὴν ἐδέξαντο, ἀλλʼ ὑπέμειναν ὑμῶν τὸ σοβαρὸν τοῦτο καὶ μειρακιῶδες τῆς αὐθαδείας, ὥσπερ ἂν παίδων ἀφρόνων χρηστοὶ πατέρες· καὶ πάλιν ἑτέραν πρεσβείαν ἀποστέλλειν ᾤοντο δεῖν καὶ τῶν δικαίων μειονεκτεῖν καὶ πάντα ὑπομένειν, ὦ πολῖται, τὰ
Since the senate has voted these things, accept their favors gladly, citizens, with all enthusiasm and eagerness, setting high value on such great good fortune and being very grateful to the gods for it, since the city of the Romans, which rules over so many men, and the senate, which has the leadership of all that is noble in it—it not being ancestral to them to yield to any of their adversaries—willingly bow their dignity to you alone, and have deemed it right neither to be precise about the duties of each, as superiors towards inferiors, but themselves have first sent ambassadors concerning a settlement, nor did they receive with anger your arrogant answers which you made to the former ambassadors, but they endured this haughtiness and childish insolence of yours, just as good fathers would endure foolish children; and they thought they ought to send another embassy again, and to waive some of their rights, and to endure everything, citizens, that is moderate.
§6.71.4μέτρια. ἐπὶ δὴ τοσαύτης βεβηκότες εὐτυχίας μὴ μέλλετε λέγειν, ὦ δημόται, τίνων χρήζετε μηδʼ ἐντρυφᾶτε ἡμῖν, καταλυσάμενοι δὲ τὴν στάσιν ἄπιτε χαίροντες εἰς τὴν γειναμένην τε καὶ θρεψαμένην ὑμᾶς πόλιν, ᾗ τροφεῖά τε καὶ χάριτας οὐ χρηστὰς ἀπεδίδοτε, καταλιπόντες αὐτὴν τὸ γοῦν ἐφʼ ὑμῖν εἶναι ἔρημον καὶ μηλόβοτον.
Having arrived at such great good fortune, do not delay to say, citizens, what you want, nor mock us, but having ended the sedition, depart with joy to the city that begot and nurtured you, to which you were returning no good thanks for your rearing, leaving it, at least as far as lay in your power, desolate and a pasture for sheep.
εἰ δὲ παρήσετε τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον, εὔξεσθε πολλάκις ὅμοιον εὑρεῖν ἕτερον.
But if you let this opportunity pass, you will often pray to find another like it."