§1.47.1tum vero in dies infestior Tulli senectus, infestius coepit regnum esse.
Then indeed day by day the old age of Servius became more endangered, and the reign began to be more insecure.
iam enim ab scelere ad aliud spectare mulier scelus, nec nocte nec interdiu virum conquiescere pati, ne gratuita praeterita parricidia essent: §1.47.2non sibi defuisse, cui nupta diceretur, nec cum quo tacita serviret; defuisse, qui se regno dignum putaret, qui meminisset se esse Prisci Tarquini filium, qui habere quam sperare regnum mallet.
For already the woman began to look from one crime to another, and allowed her husband no rest either by night or by day, lest her past murders of relatives should be without reward: she had not lacked a man to be called her husband, nor one with whom she might serve in silence; what she had lacked was one who would think himself worthy of the kingdom, who would remember that he was the son of Priscus Tarquinius, who would prefer to hold the kingdom rather than to hope for it.
§1.47.3“si tu is es, cui nuptam esse me arbitror, et virum et regem appello; sin minus, eo nunc peius mutata res est, quod istic cum ignavia est scelus.
"If you are the man to whom I believe myself to be married, I call you both husband and king; if not, my condition has now changed for the worse, in that there is crime coupled with cowardice on your part.
§1.47.4quin accingeris? non tibi ab Corintho nec ab Tarquiniis, ut patri tuo, peregrina regna moliri necesse est; di te penates patriique et patris imago et domus regia et in domo regale solium et nomen Tarquinium creat vocatque regem.
Why do you not gird yourself? You do not need to prepare a foreign kingdom from Corinth or from Tarquinii, as did your father; your ancestral and household gods, the image of your father, the royal palace, and the royal throne in that palace, and the name of Tarquin, create and call you king.
§1.47.5aut si ad haec parum est animi, quid frustraris civitatem? quid te ut regium iuvenem conspici sinis? facesse hinc Tarquinios aut Corinthum, devolvere retro ad stirpem, §1.47.6fratris similior quam patris. ” his aliisque increpando iuvenem instigat nec conquiescere ipsa potest, si, cum Tanaquil, peregrina mulier, tantum moliri potuisset animo, ut duo continua regna viro ac deinceps genero dedisset, ipsa, regio semine orta, nullum momentum in dando adimendoque regno faceret.
Or if you have too little spirit for this, why do you deceive the state? Why do you allow yourself to be looked upon as a royal youth? Depart hence to Tarquinii or Corinth, sink back to your origin, you who are more like your brother than your father." By these and other reproaches she incites the young man, nor can she herself rest, if Tanaquil, a foreign woman, had been able to conceive so great an enterprise in her mind as to give two successive reigns to her husband and next to her son-in-law, while she herself, sprung from royal seed, should have no weight in giving and taking away the kingdom.
§1.47.7his muliebribus instinctus furiis Tarquinius circumire et prensare minorum maxime gentium patres; admonere paterni beneficii ac pro eo gratiam repetere; allicere donis iuvenes; cum de se ingentia pollicendo tum regis criminibus omnibus locis crescere.
Instigated by these feminine furies, Tarquin began to go around and canvass especially the senators of the lesser gentes; he reminded them of his father's benefit and asked for gratitude in return; he attracted the young men with gifts; both by promising great things about himself and by bringing accusations against the king, he grew in influence in all places.
§1.47.8postremo, ut iam agendae rei tempus visum est, stipatus agmine armatorum in forum inrupit.
Finally, when it seemed the time for action, surrounded by a band of armed men, he burst into the forum.
inde omnibus perculsis pavore in regia sede pro curia sedens patres in curiam per praeconem ad regem Tarquinium citari iussit.
Then, while everyone was struck with terror, sitting on the royal seat before the senate-house, he ordered the senators to be summoned into the senate-house by a herald to King Tarquin.
convenere extemplo, §1.47.9alii iam ante ad hoc praeparati, alii metu, ne non venisse fraudi esset, novitate ac miraculo attoniti et iam de Servio actum rati.
They assembled immediately, some already prepared for this beforehand, others out of fear lest their failure to come should be their ruin, astonished by the novelty and the miracle, and already thinking that it was all over with Servius.
§1.47.10ibi Tarquinius maledicta ab stirpe ultima orsus: servum servaque natum post mortem indignam parentis sui, non interregno, ut antea, irlto, non comitiis habitis, non per suffragium populi, non auctoribus patribus, muliebri dono regnum occupasse. §1.47.11ita natum, ita creatum regem, fautorem infimi generis hominum, ex quo ipse sit, odio alienae honestatis ereptum primoribus agrum sordidissimo cuique divisisse; §1.47.12omnia onera, quae communia quondam fuerint, inclinasse in primores civitatis; instituisse census, ut insignis ad invidiam locupletiorum fortuna esset et parata, unde, ubi vellet, egentissimis largiretur.
There Tarquin, beginning with insults from his ultimate origin, alleged: that a slave and the son of a slave-woman, after the shameful death of his own father, without any interregnum having been entered upon as before, without assemblies being held, without the vote of the people, without the authorization of the senators, had seized the kingdom as a woman's gift; that having been so born, and so created king, as a supporter of the lowest class of men, to which he himself belonged, out of hatred for the noble character of others, he had taken land from the leading men and divided it among all the most sordid; that he had shifted all the burdens, which were once common, onto the leading men of the state; and had established the census, so that the fortune of the wealthier might be conspicuous for envy, and prepared as a fund from which, whenever he wished, he might bestow largesses upon the most needy.