§3.13.1premebat reum praeter vulgatam invidiam crimen unum, quod M. Volscius Fictor, qui ante aliquot annos tribunus plebis fuerat, testis extiterat se haud multo post,
An additional accusation, besides the common hatred, pressed hard upon the defendant, because Marcus Volscius Fictor, who had been a tribune of the plebs a few years before, had come forward as a witness that not long after the pestilence had been in the city, he had fallen in with a gang of youths rioting in the Subura.
§3.13.2quam pestilentia in urbe fuerat, in iuventutem grassantem in Subura incidisse. ibi rixam natam esse, fratremque suum maiorem natu, necdum ex morbo satis validum, pugno ictum ab Caesone cecidisse; §3.13.3semianimem inter manus domum ablatum mortuumque inde arbitrari, nec sibi rem exequi tam atrocem per consules superiorum annorum licuisse.
There a brawl had arisen, and his elder brother, not yet fully recovered from illness, had been struck by Caeso's fist and had fallen; he had been carried home half-dead in people's arms and had subsequently died, as he believed; and that it had not been permitted to him under the consuls of the preceding years to prosecute so atrocious a deed.
haec Volscio clamitante adeo concitati homines sunt, ut haud multum afuerit, quin impetu populi Caeso interiret.
As Volscius was shouting these things, the people were so excited that Caeso was not far from being killed by the violence of the crowd.
Verginius arripi iubet hominem et in vincula duci.
Verginius ordered the man to be seized and led into chains.
§3.13.4patricii vi contra vim resistunt.
The patricians resisted force with force.
T. Quinctius clamitat, cui rei capitalis dies dicta sit et de quo futurum prope diem iudicium, eum indemnatum indicta causa non debere violari.
Titus Quinctius cried out that a man for whom a day had been appointed for a capital trial, and whose judgment was shortly to take place, ought not to be violated uncondemned and without his cause being heard.
§3.13.5tribunus supplicium negat sumpturum se de indemnato; servaturum tamen in vinculis esse ad iudicii diem, ut, qui hominem necaverit, de eo supplicii sumendi copia populo Romano fiat.
The tribune declared that he would not inflict punishment on an uncondemned man; but nevertheless, he would keep him in chains until the day of the trial, so that the Roman people might have the opportunity of inflicting punishment on one who had killed a man.
§3.13.6appellati tribuni medio decreto ius auxilii sui expediunt, in vincla conici vetant; §3.13.7sisti reum, pecuniamque, ni sistatur, populo promitti placere pronuntiant.
The tribunes, being appealed to, exercised their right of assistance by a middle decree, and forbade him to be cast into chains; they declared it to be their decision that the defendant should be produced, and that a sum of money should be promised to the people unless he should appear.
summam pecuniae quantam aecum esset promitti, veniebat in dubium; §3.13.8id ad senatum reicitur.
What sum of money it was reasonable to promise came into question; this matter was referred to the senate.
reus, dum consulerentur patres, retentus in publico est.
While the fathers were being consulted, the defendant was detained in public.
vades dari placuit; unum vadem tribus milibus aeris obligaverunt; quot darentur, permissum tribunis est.
It was decided that sureties should be given; they bound each surety in the sum of three thousand asses; how many should be given was left to the tribunes.
decem finierunt.
They fixed the number at ten.
tot vadibus accusator vadatus est reum.
With so many sureties did the accuser bind the defendant to appear.
hic primus vades publico dedit.
He was the first who gave sureties to the state.
dimissus e foro nocte proxima in Tuscos in exilium abiit.
Released from the forum, on the following night he went into exile to the Etruscans.
§3.13.9iudicii die cum excusaretur solum vertisse exilii causa, nihilo minus Verginio comitia habente collegae appellati dimisere concilium.
On the day of the trial, although it was pleaded as an excuse that he had changed his soil for the sake of exile, nevertheless, while Verginius was holding the assembly, his colleagues, being appealed to, dismissed the council.
pecunia a patre exacta crudeliter, §3.13.10ut divenditis omnibus bonis aliquamdiu trans Tiberim veluti relegatus devio quodam tugurio viveret.
The money was cruelly exacted from the father, so that, having sold all his property, he lived for some time across the Tiber, like an exile, in a secluded cottage.