§3.10.1Lucretius cum ingenti praeda, maiore multo gloria rediit.
Lucretius returned with vast booty, and with much greater glory.
et auget gloriam adveniens exposita omni in campo Martio praeda, ut suum quisque per triduum cognitum abduceret.
And, on his arrival, the display of all the booty in the Campus Martio increased his glory, so that everyone during three days might recognize and carry away his own.
reliqua vendita, quibus domini non extitere.
The remainder, for which owners did not appear, was sold.
§3.10.2debebatur omnium consensu consuli triumphus, sed dilata res est tribuno de lege agente; id antiquius consuli fuit.
By the consensus of all, a triumph was due to the consul, but the matter was deferred because the tribune was pressing the law; that was of prior importance to the consul.
§3.10.3iactata per aliquot dies cum in senatu res, tum apud populum est.
The matter was debated for several days, both in the senate and before the people.
§3.10.4cessit ad ultimum maiestati consulis tribunus et destitit.
At last the tribune yielded to the majesty of the consul and desisted.
tum imperatori exercituique honos suus redditus; triumphavit de Volscis Aequisque, triumphantem secutae suae legiones.
Then to the commander and the army their proper honor was rendered; he triumphed over the Volsci and Aequi, and his legions followed him in his triumph.
alteri consuli datum, ut ovans sine militibus urbem iniret.
To the other consul it was granted that he should enter the city in an ovation without his soldiers.
§3.10.5anno deinde insequenti lex Terentilia ab toto relata collegio novos adgressa consules est; §3.10.6erant consules P. Volumnius, Ser. Sulpicius.
Then in the following year the Terentilian law, brought forward again by the whole college, attacked the new consuls; the consuls were Publius Volumnius and Servius Sulpicius.
eo anno caelum ardere visum, terra ingenti concussa motu est.
In that year the sky seemed to burn, and the earth was shaken by a violent earthquake.
bovem locutam, cui rei priore anno fides non fuerat, creditum.
That an ox had spoken, a thing which had not been believed the previous year, was now believed.
inter alia prodigia et came pluit, quem imbrem ingens numerus avium intervolitando rapuisse fertur; quod intercidit, sparsum ita iacuisse per aliquot dies, ut nihil odor mutaret.
Among other prodigies, it also rained meat, which rain a vast number of birds is said to have seized by flying among it; that which fell to the ground lay scattered for several days in such a way that its odor did not change at all.
§3.10.7libri per duumviros sacrorum aditi; pericula a conventu alienigenarum praedicta, ne qui in loca summa urbis impetus caedesque inde fierent; inter cetera monitum, ut seditionibus abstineretur.
The sacred books were consulted by the duumviri of sacred rites; dangers from a gathering of foreigners were predicted, lest any attack on the highest points of the city and slaughter therefrom should occur; among other things, warning was given to abstain from seditions.
id factum ad inpediendam legem tribuni criminabantur, ingensque aderat certamen.
The tribunes charged that this had been done to obstruct the law, and a huge conflict was at hand.
§3.10.8ecce, ut idem in singulos annos orbis volveretur, Hernici nuntiant Volscos et Aequos, etsi accisae res sint, reficere exercitus; Antii summam rei positam, Ecetrae Antiates colonos palam concilia facere; id caput, eas vires belli esse.
Behold, as if the same cycle were turning year after year, the Hernici announced that the Volsci and Aequi, although their strength had been shattered, were rebuilding their armies; that the main control of the war was centered at Antium, and that the colonists of Antium were openly holding councils at Ecetra; that this was the head, this the strength of the war.
§3.10.9ut haec dicta in senatu sunt, dilectus edicitur.
When these things were reported in the senate, a levy was proclaimed.
consules belli administrationem inter se dispertiri iussi, alteri ut Volsci, alteri ut Aequi provincia esset.
The consuls were ordered to divide the management of the war between them, so that the Volsci should be the province of one, and the Aequi of the other.
§3.10.10tribuni coram in foro personare fabulam conpositam Volsci belli, Hernicos ad partes paratos.
The tribunes, in the forum, publicly declaimed that the story of a Volscian war was a fabricated play, and that the Hernici had been prepared for their parts.
iam ne virtute quidem premi libertatem populi Romani, sed arte eludi.
Now the liberty of the Roman people was not even being oppressed by valor, but was being evaded by trickery.
§3.10.11quia occidione prope occisos Volscos et Aequos movere sua sponte arma posse iam fides abierit, novos hostes quaeri; coloniam fidam, propinquam infamem fieri.
Because the belief had now vanished that the Volsci and Aequi, who had been almost utterly destroyed, could move arms of their own accord, new enemies were being sought; a loyal and neighboring colony was being defamed.
§3.10.12bellum innoxiis Antiatibus indici, geri cum plebe Romana, quam oneratam armis ex urbe praecipiti agmine acturi essent, exilio et relegatione civium ulciscentes tribunos.
War was being declared against the innocent Antiates, but was being waged against the Roman plebs, whom, loaded with arms, they were about to drive from the city in a rapid march, avenging themselves upon the tribunes by the exile and relegation of the citizens.
§3.10.13sic — ne quid aliud actum putent — victam legem esse, nisi, dum in integro res sit, dum domi, dum togati sint, caveant, ne possessione urbis pellantur, ne iugum accipiant.
In this way — lest they think anything else was being done — the law was defeated, unless, while the matter was untouched, while they were at home and clad in the toga, they took care lest they be driven from the possession of the city, and lest they receive the yoke.
§3.10.14si animus sit, non defore auxilium; consentire omnes tribunos.
If they had the spirit, aid would not be lacking; all the tribunes were in agreement.
nullum terrorem externum, nullum periculum esse; cavisse deos priore anno, ut tuto libertas defendi posset.
There was no external terror, no danger; the gods had provided in the previous year that liberty might be defended in safety.
haec tribuni.
Thus far the tribunes.