§7.18.1μετὰ τοῦτο πολλαὶ καὶ περὶ πολλῶν ἐγίνοντο τοῖς δημάρχοις πρὸς τοὺς ὑπάτους ἀντιλογίαι, καὶ οὔθʼ ὁ δῆμος ὁπόσα ἡ βουλὴ ψηφίσαιτο κύρια ἡγεῖτο, οὔθʼ ὧν ὁ δῆμος γνοίη τῇ βουλῇ φίλον τι ἦν· ἀντιπαρατεταγμένοι δὲ καὶ διʼ ὑποψίας ἔχοντες ἀλλήλους διετέλουν.
After this, many disputes on many subjects arose between the tribunes and the consuls, and neither did the people consider valid whatever the senate voted, nor was anything which the people decided pleasing to the senate; and they continued arrayed against each other and holding one another in suspicion.
οὐ μὴν τό γε μῖσος αὐτῶν εἰς ἔργον τι ἀνήκεστον ἐχώρησεν, οἷα ἐν ταῖς τοιαύταις φιλεῖ §7.18.2γίνεσθαι ταραχαῖς.
Yet their hatred did not proceed to any incurable deed, such as is wont to happen in such disturbances.
οὔτε γὰρ οἱ πένητες ἐπὶ τὰς οἰκίας ὥρμησαν τῶν πλουσίων, ἔνθα ὑπελάμβανόν τινας εὑρήσειν ἀποκειμένας τροφάς, ἢ τὴν ἐν τῷ φανερῷ ἀγορὰν ἁρπάζειν ἐπεβάλοντο, ἀλλʼ ὑπομένοντες ὠνεῖσθαι πολλοῦ διαφόρου μικρά, καὶ ὁπότʼ ἐξαπορηθεῖεν ἀργυρίου τὰς ἐκ γῆς ῥίζας τε καὶ βοτάνας σιτούμενοι ἠνείχοντο· οὔθʼ οἱ πλούσιοι βιασάμενοι τοὺς ἀσθενεστέρους τῇ τʼ οἰκείᾳ δυνάμει καὶ τῇ παρὰ τῶν πελατῶν πολλῇ οὔσῃ κατασχεῖν αὐτοὶ τὴν πόλιν ἠξίωσαν τοὺς μὲν ἐξελάσαντες ἐξ αὐτῆς, τοὺς δʼ ἀποκτείναντες, ἀλλὰ διέμενον ὥσπερ οἱ σωφρονέστατα πολιτευόμενοι πρὸς τοὺς υἱοὺς πατέρες εὐνοούσῃ καὶ κηδομένῃ τῇ ὀργῇ πρὸς τὰς ἁμαρτάδας αὐτῶν χρώμενοι.
For neither did the poor rush to the houses of the rich, where they supposed they would find some stored-up provisions, or attempt to plunder the market in public view, but submitting to buy small quantities at a great price, and whenever they were utterly destitute of money, they endured, feeding on roots and herbs from the earth; nor did the rich, having overpowered the weaker by their own power and that of their clients, which was numerous, think fit to seize the city themselves, driving some out of it and killing others, but they continued behaving like the most prudently acting fathers toward their sons, using an anger that was well-disposed and caring toward their errors.
§7.18.3τοιαύτης δὲ καταστάσεως οὔσης περὶ τὴν Ῥώμην αἱ πλησιόχωροι πόλεις ἐκάλουν τοὺς βουλομένους οἰκεῖν παρὰ σφίσι Ῥωμαίων πολιτείας τε μεταδόσει καὶ ἄλλων φιλανθρώπων ἐλπίσιν ὑπαγόμεναι, αἱ μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ βελτίστου διʼ εὔνοιάν τε καὶ ἔλεον τῆς συμφορᾶς, αἱ δὲ πλείους διὰ φθόνον τῆς πάλαι ποτὲ εὐτυχίας.
While such a situation existed around Rome, the neighboring cities invited those of the Romans who wished to dwell among them, enticing them by the grant of citizenship and other benevolent expectations—some with the best intentions out of goodwill and pity for their misfortune, but the majority out of envy of their former prosperity.
καὶ ἦσαν οἱ ἀπαναστάντες πανοικεσίᾳ καὶ μεταθέμενοι τὰς οἰκήσεις ἑτέρωσε πολλοὶ πάνυ· ὧν οἱ μὲν ἀνέστησαν αὖθις, ἐπειδὴ κατέστη τὰ πράγματα τῆς πόλεως, οἱ δὲ καὶ διέμειναν.
And those who emigrated with their whole families and transferred their dwellings elsewhere were very many, of whom some returned again when the affairs of the city became settled, while others even remained.