§2.42.1haud diuturna ira populi in Cassium fuit.
The people's anger against Cassius was not long-lasting.
dulcedo agrariae legis ipsa per se dempto auctore subibat animos, accensaque ea cupiditas est malignitate patrum, qui devictis eo anno Volscis Aequisque militem praeda fraudavere.
The sweetness of the agrarian law itself, with its author removed, began to steal into their minds, and this desire was inflamed by the ill-will of the patricians, who, having thoroughly defeated the Volscians and Aequians in that year, defrauded the soldiers of their booty.
§2.42.2quidquid captum ex hostibus est, vendidit Fabius consul ac redegit in publicum.
Whatever was captured from the enemy, the consul Fabius sold and paid into the public treasury.
invisum erat Fabium nomen plebi propter novissimum consulem; tenuere tamen patres, ut cum L. Aemilio Caeso Fabius consul crearetur.
The name of Fabius was hateful to the plebs on account of the most recent consul; nevertheless, the patricians carried their point that Kaeso Fabius should be elected consul along with Lucius Aemilius.
§2.42.3eo infestior facta plebes seditione domestica bellum externum excivit.
The plebs, made all the more hostile by this, provoked a foreign war through domestic sedition.
bello deinde civiles discordiae intermissae.
Then, by the war, civil discord was suspended.
uno animo patres ac plebs rebellantes Volscos et Aequos duce Aemilio prospera pugna vicere.
With one mind, the patricians and the plebs, under the leadership of Aemilius, defeated the rebelling Volscians and Aequians in a successful battle.
§2.42.4plus tamen hostium fuga quam proelium absumpsit: adeo pertinaciter fusos insecuti sunt equites.
However, the flight of the enemy cut off more of them than the battle itself: so relentlessly did the cavalry pursue them once they were routed.
§2.42.5Castoris aedes eodem anno idibus Quintilibus dedicata est.
The temple of Castor was dedicated in the same year on the Ides of July.
vota erat Latino bello a Postumio dictatore; filius eius duumvir ad id ipsum creatus dedicavit. sollicitati
It had been vowed during the Latin war by the dictator Postumius; his son, elected as a commissioner for this very purpose, dedicated it.
§2.42.6et eo anno sunt dulcedine agrariae legis animi plebis.
In this year as well, the minds of the plebs were stirred by the sweetness of the agrarian law.
tribuni plebi popularem potestatem lege populari celebrabant; patres satis superque gratuiti furoris in multitudine credentes esse, largitiones temeritatisque invitamenta horrebant.
The tribunes of the plebs were making their popular power conspicuous by means of a popular law; the patricians, believing that there was already more than enough unprovoked madness in the multitude, dreaded distributions and inducements to recklessness.
acerrimi patribus duces ad resistendum consules fuere.
The consuls were the most energetic leaders for the patricians in resisting.
§2.42.7ea igitur pars rei publicae vicit nec in praesens modo, sed in venientem etiam annum M. Fabium, Caesonis fratrem, et magis invisum alterum plebi accusatione Sp. Cassi, L. Valerium, consules dedit.
Therefore that party of the state prevailed, and gave as consuls, not only for the present but also for the coming year, Marcus Fabius, the brother of Kaeso, and the other, Lucius Valerius, who was even more hated by the plebs because of his prosecution of Spurius Cassius.
certatum eo quoque anno cum tribunis est.
In that year too, there was a struggle with the tribunes.
§2.42.8vana lex vanique legis auctores iactando inritum munus facti.
The law became empty and the authors of the law became futile by boasting of a useless gift.
Fabium inde nomen ingens post tres continuos consulatus unoque velut tenore omnes expertos tribuniciis certaminibus habitum; itaque, ut bene locatus, mansit in ea familia aliquamdiu honos.
From that time the name of Fabius was held to be immense, after three successive consulships, all of which had been tested, as if in one continuous course, by conflicts with the tribunes; and so, like an investment well placed, that honor remained for some time in that family.
bellum inde Veiens initum, et Volsci rebellarunt.
After that, a war with Veii began, and the Volscians rebelled.
§2.42.9sed ad bella externa prope supererant vires, abutebanturque iis inter semet ipsos certando.
But they had almost a surplus of strength for foreign wars, and they abused it by contending among themselves.
§2.42.10accessere ad aegras iam omnium mentes prodigia caelestia, prope cotidianas in urbe agrisque ostentantia minas; motique ita numinis causam nullam aliam vates canebant publice privatimque nunc extis nunc per aves consulti, quam haud rite sacra fieri.
To the already troubled minds of all were added celestial prodigies, showing threats almost daily in the city and the fields; and the prophets, consulted publicly and privately, now by means of entrails, now by birds, declared that there was no other cause for the deity being thus angered than that the sacred rites were not being duly performed.
§2.42.11qui terrores tamen eo evasere, ut Oppia virgo Vestalis damnata incesti poenas dederit.
These terrors, however, culminated in this: that the Vestal Virgin Oppia, convicted of unchastity, paid the penalty.