§3.65.1novi tribuni plebis in cooptandis collegis patrum voluntatem foverunt, duos etiam patricios consularesque, Sp. Tarpeium et A. Aternium, cooptavere.
The new tribunes of the plebs, in co-opting their colleagues, favored the will of the patricians; they even co-opted two patricians who were also of consular rank, Spurius Tarpeius and Aulus Aternius.
§3.65.2consules creati Sp. Herminius, T. Verginius Caelimontanus, nihil magnopere ad patrum aut plebis causam inclinati, otium domi ac foris habuere.
Spurius Herminius and Titus Verginius Caelimontanus, having been elected consuls, leaning in no great degree toward either the cause of the patricians or that of the plebs, maintained peace at home and abroad.
§3.65.3L. Trebonius tribunus plebis infestus patribus, quod se ab iis in cooptandis tribunis fraude captum proditumque a collegis aiebat, rogationem tulit, §3.65.4ut, qui plebem Romanam tribunos plebi rogaret, is usque eo rogaret, dum decem tribunos plebi faceret; insectandisque patribus, unde Aspero etiam inditum est cognomen, tribunatum gessit.
Lucius Trebonius, a tribune of the plebs hostile to the patricians because he said that in the co-optation of the tribunes he had been deceived by their fraud and betrayed by his colleagues, brought forward a proposal, that whoever should ask the Roman plebs to elect tribunes of the plebs should continue asking until he made ten tribunes of the plebs; and by attacking the patricians, whence also the surname Asper was given to him, he conducted his tribunate.
inde M. Geganius Macerinus §3.65.5et C. Iulius consules facti contentiones tribunorum adversus nobilium iuventutem ortas sine insectatione potestatis eius conservata maiestate patrum sedavere.
After that, Marcus Geganius Macerinus and Gaius Julius having been elected consuls, they settled the disputes of the tribunes which had arisen against the young nobility, without any attack on that office and while preserving the majesty of the patricians.
§3.65.6plebem decreto ad bellum Volscorum et Aequorum dilectu sustinendo rem ab seditionibus continuere, urbano otio foris quoque omnia tranquilla esse adfirmantes, per discordias civiles externos tollere animos.
They kept the state free from sedition by holding back the levy for the war against the Volsci and Aequi by a decree, asserting that everything was peaceful abroad also because of tranquility in the city, and that through civil discord foreigners raised their spirits.
§3.65.7cura pacis concordiae quoque intestinae causa fuit.
Care for peace was also the cause of internal harmony.
sed alter semper ordo gravis alterius modestiae erat; quiescenti plebi ab iunioribus patrum iniuriae fieri coeptae.
But one order was always oppressive to the moderation of the other; upon the quiet plebs, injuries began to be inflicted by the younger patricians.
§3.65.8ubi tribuni auxilio humilioribus essent, in primis parum proderat, deinde ne ipsi quidem inviolati erant, utique postremis mensibus, cum et per coitiones potentiorum iniuria fieret et vis potestatis omnis aliquanto posteriore anni parte languidior ferme esset.
Whenever the tribunes were of assistance to the lower classes, in the first place it was of little use, and in the second place not even they themselves were unviolated, especially in the last months, since injury was committed both through the coalitions of the more powerful and the strength of the whole office was almost always somewhat weaker in the later part of the year.
§3.65.9iamque plebs ita in tribunatu ponere aliquid spei, si similes Icilio tribunos haberet: nomina tantum se biennio habuisse.
And now the plebs placed some hope in the tribunate only if they should have tribunes like Icilius: they said they had possessed only names for the two years.
§3.65.10seniores contra patrum, ut nimis feroces suos credere iuvenes esse, ita malle, si modus excedendus esset, suis quam adversariis superesse animos.
The elders of the patricians, on the other hand, although they believed their own young men to be too fierce, yet preferred that, if the limit had to be exceeded, spirit should abound in their own rather than in their adversaries.
§3.65.11adeo moderatio tuendae libertatis, dum aequari velle simulando ita se quisque extollit, ut deprimat alium, in difficili est, cavendoque ne metuant, homines metuendos ultro se efficiunt, et iniuriam a nobis repulsam tamquam aut facere aut pati necesse sit, iniungimus aliis.
To such a degree is moderation in defending liberty difficult, while each, by pretending to wish for equality, so exalts himself as to depress another; and in guarding against fear, men make themselves feared of their own accord, and inflict on others the injury repelled from themselves, as if it were necessary either to do or to suffer wrong.