§1.44.1censu perfecto, quem maturaverat metu legis de incensis latae cum vinculorum minis mortisque, edixit, ut omnes cives Romani, equites peditesque, in suis quisque centuriis in campo Martio prima luce adessent.
The census being completed, which he had expedited through fear of a law passed concerning those not registered, with threats of imprisonment and death, he issued a proclamation that all Roman citizens, cavalry and infantry, should assemble at dawn in their respective centuries in the Campus Martius.
§1.44.2ibi instructum exercitum omnem suovetaurilibus lustravit; idque conditum lustrum appellatum, quia is censendo finis factus est.
There, having drawn up the whole army, he purified it with the suovetaurilia; and this was called "the closing of the lustrum," because that was made the end of the assessing.
milia octoginta eo lustro civium censa dicuntur; adicit scriptorum antiquissimus Fabius Pictor, eorum, qui arma ferre possent, eum numerum fuisse.
Eighty thousand citizens are said to have been rated in that lustrum; the oldest of the writers, Fabius Pictor, adds that this was the number of those who were able to bear arms.
§1.44.3ad eam multitudinem urbs quoque amplificanda visa est.
To accommodate this multitude, the city also seemed to require enlargement.
addit duos colles, Quirinalem Viminalemque; inde deinceps auget Esquilias ibique ipse, ut loco dignitas fieret, habitat.
He added two hills, the Quirinal and the Viminal; then next he enlarged the Esquiline, and there he himself dwelt, in order to give dignity to the place.
§1.44.4aggere et fossis et muro circumdat urbem; ita pomerium profert.
He surrounded the city with a rampart, trenches, and a wall; thus he extended the pomerium.
pomerium, verbi vim solam intuentes, postmoerium interpretantur esse; est autem magis circamoerium, locus, quem in condendis urbibus quondam Etrusci, qua murum ducturi erant, certis circa terminis inaugurato consecrabant, ut neque interiore parte aedificia moenibus continuarentur, quae nunc vulgo etiam coniungunt, et extrinsecus puri aliquid ab humano cultu pateret soli.
Those who look only at the literal meaning of the word interpret "pomerium" as "behind the wall" (post-moerium); but it is rather "around the wall" (circa-moerium), a space which formerly the Etruscans, in founding cities, consecrated by augury within certain limits on both sides of where they were going to run the wall, so that on the inside buildings might not be joined to the walls—which nowadays they commonly do—and on the outside some portion of ground might remain clear, untouched by human tillage.
§1.44.5hoc spatium, quod neque habitari neque arari fas erat, non magis, quod post murum esset, quam quod murus post id, pomerium Romani appellarunt; et in urbis incremento semper, quantum moenia processura erant, tantum termini hi consecrati proferebantur.
This space, which it was unlawful either to inhabit or to till, the Romans called "pomerium," no more because it was behind the wall than because the wall was behind it; and in the growth of the city, as far as the walls were to be advanced, so far these consecrated boundaries were always extended.