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Livy · History of Rome §34.42.1-34.42.6

Decree of Thanksgivings, Consular Elections, and Citizenship Bids

Passage 1209 of 1770 · Latin

Summary

The senate decreed thanksgivings for T. Quinctius and M. Porcius, and next year's consuls were elected under L. Valerius. Additionally, the senate rejected a bid by Latin allies to obtain Roman citizenship through colonial enrollment.

§34.42.1eodem fere tempore et a T. Quinctio de rebus ad Lacedaemonem gestis et a M. Porcio consule ex Hispania litterae adlatae.
At almost the same time, letters were brought both from Titus Quinctius concerning his achievements at Lacedaemon and from the consul Marcus Porcius from Hispania.
utriusque nomine in dies ternos supplicatio ab senatu decreta est.
In the name of each of them, a thanksgiving for three days was decreed by the senate.
§34.42.2L. Valerius consul, cum post fusos circa Litanam silvam Boios quietam provinciam habuisset, §34.42.3comitiorum causa Romam rediit et creavit consules P. Cornelium Scipionem Africanum iterum et Ti. Sempronium Longum.
The consul Lucius Valerius, since he had held a quiet province after routing the Boii near the Litana forest, returned to Rome for the elections and created as consuls Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus for the second time and Tiberius Sempronius Longum.
§34.42.4horum patres primo anno secundi Punici belli consules fuerant.
The fathers of these men had been consuls in the first year of the Second Punic War.
praetoria inde comitia habita; creati P. Cornelius Scipio et duo Cn. Cornelii, Merenda et Blasio, et Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus et Sex.
Then the praetorian elections were held; there were elected Publius Cornelius Scipio, two Gnaeus Cornelii (Merenda and Blasio), Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Sextus Digitius, and Titus Juventius Thalna.
Digitius et T. Iuventius Thalna comitiis perfectis consul in provinciam rediit.
The elections being completed, the consul returned to his province.
§34.42.5Novum ius eo anno a Ferentinatibus temptatum, ut Latini, qui in coloniam Romanam nomina dedissent, §34.42.6cives Romani essent.
In that year, a new right was attempted by the people of Ferentinum, that Latins who had given their names for a Roman colony should be Roman citizens.
Puteolos Salernumque et Buxentum adscripti coloni, qui nomina dederant, et cum ob id se pro civibus Romanis ferrent, senatus iudicavit non esse eos civis Romanos.
The colonists who had given their names were registered for Puteoli, Salernum, and Buxentum, and when on this account they behaved as Roman citizens, the senate decided that they were not Roman citizens.

Notes

  1. §34.42.2post fusos ... Boios — The preposition post combined with a noun and a perfect passive participle in agreement (similar to the ab urbe condita construction), meaning 'after the routing of the Boii.'
  2. §34.42.3creavit consules — In Roman elections, the presiding magistrate (here the consul) formally 'created' or proclaimed the newly elected magistrates upon the completion of the comitia.
  3. §34.42.5ut ... essent — A noun clause (appositional ut-clause) explaining the specific content of the preceding Novum ius (a new right).
  4. §34.42.6se pro civibus Romanis ferrent — The verb ferre with the reflexive pronoun se and the preposition pro means 'to bear or conduct oneself as,' hence 'to pass themselves off as Roman citizens' or 'assert themselves to be Roman citizens.'

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Livy, History of Rome §34.42.1-34.42.6. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0914.phi001.humanitext-lat2:34.42.1-34.42.6

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