§25.4.1plebe dimissa senatus vocatur et consules referunt de concilio plebis turbato vi atque audacia publicanorum: §25.4.2M. Furium Camillum, cuius exilium ruina urbis secutura fuerit, damnari se ab iratis civibus passum esse; §25.4.3decemviros ante eum, quorum legibus ad eam diem viverent, multos postea principes civitatis indicium de se populi passos: §25.4.4Postumium Pyrgensem suffragium populo Romano extorsisse, concilium plebis sustulisse, tribunos in ordinem coegisse, contra populum Romanum aciem instruxisse, locum occupasse, ut tribunos a plebe intercluderet, tribus in suffragium vocari prohiberet.
After the assembly of the plebs was dismissed, the senate was convened, and the consuls reported on the disruption of the assembly of the plebs by the violence and audacity of the publicans: that Marcus Furius Camillus, whose exile the ruin of the city was destined to follow, had allowed himself to be condemned by the angry citizens; that before him the decemvirs, by whose laws they lived to that day, and afterwards many leading men of the state had submitted to the judgment of the people upon themselves; whereas Postumius of Pyrgi had extorted the vote from the Roman people, broken up the assembly of the plebs, reduced the tribunes to the ranks, drawn up a battle line against the Roman people, and occupied a position in order to cut off the tribunes from the plebs and prevent the tribes from being called to vote.
§25.4.5nihil aliud a caede ac dimicatione continuisse homines nisi patientiam magstratuum, quod cesserint in praesentia furori atque audaciae paucorum vincique se ac populum Romanum passi sint et comitia, §25.4.6quae reus vi atque armis prohibiturus erat, ne causa quaerentibus dimicationem daretur, voluntate ipsi sua sustulerint.
That nothing else had kept the men from slaughter and conflict except the patience of the magistrates, because for the present they had yielded to the madness and audacity of a few, and had allowed themselves and the Roman people to be overcome, and as for the assembly, which the accused was going to prevent by force and arms, they had of their own accord called it off, lest an opportunity for conflict be given to those who were seeking it.
§25.4.7haec cum ab optimo quoque pro atrocitate rei accepta essent, vimque eam contra rem publicam et pernicioso exemplo factam senatus decresset, §25.4.8confestim Carvilii tribuni plebis omissa multae certatione rei capitalis diem Postumio dixerunt ac, ni vades daret, prendi a viatore atque in carcerem duci iusserunt.
When these matters had been received by all the best citizens in accordance with the atrocity of the affair, and the senate had decreed that this violence was directed against the state and set a pernicious example, immediately the Carvilii, tribunes of the plebs, giving up the contest over the fine, indicted Postumius on a capital charge and ordered him, unless he gave sureties, to be arrested by the summoner and led to prison.
Postumius vadibus datis non adfuit.
Postumius, having given sureties, did not appear.
§25.4.9tribuni plebem rogaverunt plebesque ita scivit, si M. Postumius ante kal. Maias non prodisset citatusque eo die non respondisset neque excusatus esset, videri eum in exilio esse bonaque eius venire, ipsi aqua et igni placere interdici.
The tribunes proposed to the plebs, and the plebs thus decreed: that if Marcus Postumius did not appear before the Kalends of May, and, being summoned on that day, did not answer and was not excused, he should be considered to be in exile, his goods should be sold, and it should be resolved that he be interdicted from water and fire.
§25.4.10singulis deinde eorum, qui turbae ac tumultus concitatores fuerant, rei capitalis diem dicere ac vades poscere coeperunt.
Next, they began to indict on a capital charge each of those who had been instigators of the crowd and riot, and to demand sureties.
§25.4.11primo non dantis, deinde etiam eos, qui dare possent, in carcerem coiciebant; cuius rei periculum vitantes plerique in exilium abierunt.
At first they threw into prison those who did not give them, and then even those who were able to give them; avoiding the danger of this, most of them went into exile.