§29.37.1dam haec consules diversis regionibus agunt, censores interim Romae M. Livius et C. Claudius senatum recitaverunt.
While the consuls were doing these things in different regions, in the meantime at Rome the censors M. Livius and C. Claudius read out the roll of the senate.
princeps iterum lectus Q. Fabius Maximus; notati septem, nemo tamen, qui sella curuli sedisset.
Q. Fabius Maximus was chosen princeps of the senate again; seven were reprimanded, yet there was no one among them who had sat in a curule chair.
§29.37.2sarta tecta acriter et cum summa fide exegerunt; viam e foro Bovario ad Veneris circa foros publicos et aedem Matris Magnae in Palatio faciendam locaverunt.
They enforced the maintenance of public buildings with strictness and the utmost integrity; they contracted for the construction of a road from the Forum Boarium to the Temple of Venus around the public forums, and for the Temple of the Magna Mater on the Palatine.
vectigal etiam novum ex salaria annona statuerunt.
They also established a new tax from the salt supply.
§29.37.3sextante sal et Romae et per totam Italiam erat Romae pretio eodem, pluris in foris et conciliabulis, et alio alibi pretio praebendum locaverunt.
Salt had been at one sextans both at Rome and throughout all Italy; they contracted for its supply at the same price at Rome, but at a higher price in the markets and assemblies, and at different prices in different places.
§29.37.4id vectigal commentum alterum ex censoribus satis credebant, populo iratum, quod iniquo iudicio quondam damnatus esset; et in pretio salis maxime oneratas tribus, quarum opera damnatus erat, credebant.
People believed that this tax was the invention of one of the censors, who was angry with the populace because he had once been condemned by an unjust trial; and they believed that in the price of salt those tribes by whose effort he had been condemned were the most heavily burdened.
§29.37.5inde Salinatori Livio inditum cognomen.
From this, the surname "Salinator" was given to Livius.
lustrum conditum serius, quia per provincias dimiserunt censores, ut civium Romanorum in exercitibus, quantus ubique esset, referretur numerus.
The lustrum was performed later than usual because the censors sent agents through the provinces so that the number of Roman citizens in the armies, and how many there were everywhere, might be reported.
§29.37.6censa cum iis ducenta decem quattuor milia hominum.
Including these, two hundred and fourteen thousand men were registered.
condidit lustrum C. Claudius Nero.
C. Claudius Nero completed the lustrum.
§29.37.7duodecim deinde coloniarum, quod numquam antea factum erat, deferentibus ipsarum coloniarum censoribus, censum acceperunt, ut, quantum numero militum, quantum pecunia valerent, in publicis tabulis monumenta extarent.
Then, which had never been done before, they received the census of twelve colonies, with the censors of those very colonies bringing in the reports, so that a record might exist on the public tablets as a memorial of how much they were worth in the number of soldiers and in money.
§29.37.8equitum deinde census agi coeptus est; et ambo forte censores equum publicum habebant.
Next, the census of the knights began to be conducted; and both censors happened to have a public horse.
cum ad tribum Polliam ventum est, in qua M. Livi nomen erat, et praeco cunctaretur citare ipsum censorem, §29.37.9“cita” inquit Nero “M. Livium;
When they came to the Pollia tribe, in which was the name of M. Livius, and the herald hesitated to summon the censor himself, "Summon M.
” et sive ex residua vetere simultate sive intempestiva iactatione severitatis inflatus M. Livium, quia populi iudicio esset damnatus, equum vendere iussit.
Livius," said Nero; and whether inflated by some remaining old feud or by an untimely display of severity, he ordered M. Livius to sell his horse because he had been condemned by a judgment of the people.
§29.37.10item M. Livius, cum ad tribum Arniensem et nomen conlegae ventum est, vendere equum C. Claudium iussit duarum rerum causa, unius, quod falsum adversus se testimonium dixisset, alterius, quod non sincera fide secum in gratiam redisset.
Likewise M. Livius, when they came to the Arniensis tribe and the name of his colleague, ordered C. Claudius to sell his horse for two reasons: one, because he had given false testimony against him; the other, because he had not returned to friendly terms with him with sincere good faith.
§29.37.11aeque foedum certamen inquinandi famam alterius cum suae famae damno factum est exitu censurae.
An equally disgraceful contest of defiling each other's reputation to the damage of their own took place at the close of their censorship.
cum in leges iurasset C. Claudius
When C.
§29.37.12et in aerarium escendisset, inter nomina eorum, quos aerarios relinquebat, dedit conlegae nomen.
Claudius had sworn to observe the laws and had gone up to the treasury, among the names of those whom he was leaving as aerarii, he gave the name of his colleague.
§29.37.13deinde M. Livius in aerarium venit et praeter Maeciam tribum, quae se neque condemnasset neque condemnatum aut consulem aut censorem fecisset, populum Romanum omnem, quattuor et triginta tribus, §29.37.14aerarios reliquit, quod et innocentem se condemnassent et condemnatum consulem et censorem fecissent, neque infitiari possent aut iudicio semel aut comitiis bis ab se peccatum esse: inter quattuor et triginta tribus et C. Claudium aerarium fore; §29.37.15quod si exemplum haberet bis eundem aerarium relinquendi, C. Claudium nominatim se inter aerarios fuisse relicturum.
Then M. Livius came to the treasury and, except for the Maecia tribe, which had neither condemned him nor, after he was condemned, had made him either consul or censor, left all the Roman people, thirty-four tribes, as aerarii, because they had both condemned him when innocent and, after he was condemned, had made him consul and censor, and they could not deny that a mistake had been made on their part, either once by their judgment or twice by their elections: and he declared that C. Claudius would be among the thirty-four tribes as an aerarius; but if there were a precedent for leaving the same man as an aerarius twice, he would have left C. Claudius among the aerarii by name.
§29.37.16pravum certamen notarum inter censores; castigatio inconstantiae populi censoria et gravitate temporum illorum digna.
It was a shameful contest of reprimands between the censors; yet it was a censorial chastisement of the people's inconsistency, and worthy of the gravity of those times.
§29.37.17in invidia censores cum essent, crescendi ex iis ratus esse occasionem Cn.
Since the censors were in public odium, Cn.
Baebius tribunus plebis diem ad populum utrisque dixit.
Baebius, a tribune of the plebs, thinking this a chance to increase his own influence, appointed a day of trial before the people for both of them.
ea res consensu patrum discussa est, ne postea obnoxia populari aurae censura esset.
This matter was dismissed by the consensus of the senators, lest the censorship should afterwards be vulnerable to the popular breeze.