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Livy · History of Rome §1.38.1-1.38.7

Surrender of Collatia and Building Works of Tarquin

Passage 39 of 1770 · Latin

Summary

Tarquinius Priscus receives the surrender of Collatia, the formal ritual of which is recorded. He then subdues the cities of the Ancient Latins, establishes peace, and embarks on grand public works in Rome, including stone walls, sewers, and the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline.

§1.38.1Collatia et quidquid citra Collatiam agri erat, Sabinis ademptum; Egerius — fratris hic filius erat regis — Collatiae in praesidio relictus.
Collatia and whatever land there was on this side of Collatia were taken from the Sabines; Egerius—he was the son of the king's brother—was left at Collatia in garrison.
deditosque Collatinos ita accipio eamque deditionis formulam esse; §1.38.2rex interrogavit: “estisne vos legati oratoresque missi a populo Conlatino, ut vos populumque Collatinum dederetis?” sumus. “estne populus Collatinus in sua potestate?” est. “deditisne vos populumque Collatinum, urbem, agros, aquam, terminos, delubra, utensilia, divina humanaque omnia in meam populique Romani dicionem?” §1.38.3dedimus. “at ego recipio. ” bello Sabino perfecto Tarquinius triumphans Romam redit.
And I understand that the Collatini surrendered in this manner, and that this was the formula of surrender: The king asked: “Are you the envoys and spokesmen sent by the Collatine people, to surrender yourselves and the Collatine people?” “We are.” “Is the Collatine people in its own power?” “It is.” “Do you surrender yourselves and the Collatine people, the city, the fields, the water, the boundary-marks, the shrines, the utensils, and all things divine and human, into my power and that of the Roman people?” “We do.” “Then I accept them.” The Sabine war having been finished, Tarquin returned to Rome in triumph.
inde Priscis Latinis bellum fecit.
Thereupon he made war upon the Ancient Latins.
§1.38.4ubi nusquam ad universae rei dimicationem ventum est; ad singula oppida circumferendo arma omne nomen Latinum domuit.
where it never came to a decisive battle of the entire campaign; by carrying his arms to individual towns, he subdued the whole Latin name.
Corniculum, Ficulea vetus, Cameria, Crustumerium, Ameriola, Medullia, Nomentum, haec de Priscis Latinis aut qui ad Latinos defecerant, capta oppida.
Corniculum, Ficulea Vetus, Cameria, Crustumerium, Ameriola, Medullia, Nomentum—these were the captured towns belonging to the Ancient Latins, or to those who had revolted to the Latins.
pax deinde est facta.
Then peace was made.
§1.38.5maiore inde animo pacis opera inchoata, quam quanta mole gesserat bella, ut non quietior populus domi esset, quam militiae fuisset; §1.38.6nam et muro lapideo, cuius exordium operis Sabino bello turbatum erat, urbem, qua nondum munierat, cingere parat et infima urbis loca circa forum aliasque interiectas collibus convalles, quia ex planis locis haud facile evehebant aquas, cloacis fastigio in Tiberim ductis siccat et aream ad aedem in Capitolio Iovis, §1.38.7quam voverat bello Sabino, iam praesagiente animo futuram olim amplitudinem loci occupat fundamentis.
Thereafter, works of peace were begun with a greater spirit than the scale of effort with which he had waged wars, so that the people were no more quiet at home than they had been on campaign; for he prepares both to encircle the city with a stone wall, where he had not yet fortified it—the beginning of which work had been interrupted by the Sabine war—and he drains the lowest places of the city around the Forum and other valleys lying between the hills, because they did not easily discharge the water from flat areas, by means of sewers directed down a slope into the Tiber, and the site for the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline, which he had vowed during the Sabine war, his mind already presaging the future grandeur of the place, he occupied with foundations.

Notes

  1. §1.38.1Sabinis — Dative of separation, used with the verb of taking away *ademptum* (*adimere*).
  2. §1.38.1deditosque Collatinos ita accipio eamque deditionis formulam esse — The verb *accipio* ("understand" or "receive the report") governs two accusative-with-infinitive clauses in indirect statement: *deditos [esse] Collatinos* and *eam... esse*.
  3. §1.38.5domi ... militiae — Both are locative cases, contrasting "at home (in peace)" and "on military service (in war)".
  4. §1.38.6parat et ... siccat et ... occupat — The structural backbone of the long sentence stretching from §1.38.6 to §1.38.7. With the implied subject (Tarquinius), three main verbs (*parat*, *siccat*, and *occupat*) are coordinated by *et... et... et...*.

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Livy, History of Rome §1.38.1-1.38.7. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0914.phi001.humanitext-lat2:1.38.1-1.38.7

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