§1.45.1aucta civitate magnitudine urbis, formatis omnibus domi et ad belli et ad pacis usus, ne semper armis opes adquirerentur, consilio augere imperium conatus est, simul et aliquod addere urbi decus.
The state having been increased by the size of the city, and all things at home having been organized for the uses of both war and peace, so that power might not always be acquired by arms, he attempted to enlarge the empire by policy, and at the same time to add some ornament to the city.
§1.45.2iam tum erat inclitum Dianae Ephesiae fanum; id communiter a civitatibus Asiae factum fama ferebat.
Even then, the temple of Ephesian Diana was famous; report had it that it had been built in common by the states of Asia.
eum consensum deosque consociatos laudare mire Servius inter proceres Latinorum, cum quibus publice privatimque hospitia amicitiasque de industria iunxerat.
Servius praised this agreement and their associated gods wonderfully among the leading men of the Latins, with whom he had industriously established hospitality and friendship both publicly and privately.
saepe iterando eadem perpulit tandem, ut Romae fanum Dianae populi Latini cum populo Romano facerent.
By repeatedly urging the same things, he finally prevailed upon them to build, in common with the Roman people, a temple of Diana at Rome.
ea erat confessio caput rerum Romam esse, §1.45.3de quo totiens armis certatum fuerat.
That was an acknowledgment that Rome was the head of things, concerning which there had been so many contests by force of arms.
id quamquam omissum iam ex omnium cura Latinorum ob rem totiens infeliciter temptatam armis videbatur, uni se ex Sabinis fors dare visa est privato consilio imperii recuperandi.
Although this seemed now to have been dismissed from the care of all the Latins, because of an enterprise so often unsuccessfully attempted by arms, fortune seemed to present an opportunity to a certain individual among the Sabines, through a private plan for recovering the empire.
§1.45.4bos in Sabinis nata cuidam patri familiae dicitur miranda magnitudine ac specie; fixa per multas aetates cornua in vestibulo templi Dianae monumentum ei fuere miraculo.
A heifer of wonderful size and beauty is said to have been born to a certain householder among the Sabines; her horns, fixed for many generations in the vestibule of the temple of Diana, served as a monument of this wonder.
§1.45.5habita, ut erat, res prodigii loco est; et cecinere vates, cuius civitatis eam civis Dianae immolasset, ibi fore imperium; idque carmen pervenerat ad antistitem fani Dianae.
The event was regarded, as indeed it was, in the light of a prodigy; and the prophets sang that in whichever state its citizen should immolate it to Diana, there should be the seat of empire; and this prophecy had reached the ears of the priest of Diana's temple.
§1.45.6Sabinusque, ut prima apta dies sacrificio visa est, bovem Romam actam deducit ad fanum Dianae et ante aram statuit.
The Sabine, therefore, as soon as the first day suitable for the sacrifice seemed to present itself, drove the heifer to Rome, led her to the temple of Diana, and placed her before the altar.
ibi antistes Romanus, cum eum magnitudo victumae celebrata fama movisset, memor responsi Sabinum ita adloquitur: “quidnam tu, hospes, paras?” inquit “inceste sacrificium Dianae facere? quin tu ante vivo perfunderis flumine? infima valle praefluit Tiberis. ” religione tactus hospes, §1.45.7qui omnia, ut prodigio responderet eventus, cuperet rite facta, extemplo descendit ad Tiberim.
There the Roman priest, moved by the size of the victim, which was celebrated by fame, and mindful of the prophecy, addressed the Sabine thus: "What is this you are preparing to do, stranger?" said he. "To perform a sacrifice to Diana without being purified? Why do you not first bathe in a running stream? The Tiber flows by in the valley below." Struck with religious awe, the stranger, who wished everything to be done according to ritual so that the event might correspond to the prodigy, immediately went down to the Tiber.
interea Romanus immolat Dianae bovem.
In the meantime, the Roman immolated the heifer to Diana.
id mire gratum regi atque civitati fuit.
This was wonderfully pleasing to the king and to the state.