§38.36.1de exercitibus ita placuit: ex Gallia legiones, quae sub C. Laelio fuerant, ad M. Tuccium propraetorem in Bruttios traduci, §38.36.2et, qui in Sicilia esset, dimitti exercitum, et classem, quae ibi esset, §38.36.3Romam reduceret M. Sempronius propraetor.
Regarding the armies, it was resolved as follows: that the legions from Gaul which had been under Gaius Laelius should be transferred to the propraetor Marcus Tuccius in the Bruttian territory, and that the army which was in Sicily should be disbanded, and the fleet which was there, the propraetor Marcus Sempronius should bring back to Rome.
Hispaniis singulae legiones, quae tum in iis provinciis erant, decretae, et ut terna milia peditum, ducenos equites ambo praetores in supplementum sociis imperarent secumque transportarent.
To the Spains, single legions, which were then in those provinces, were decreed, and it was ordered that both praetors should demand from the allies, as reinforcements, three thousand infantry and two hundred cavalry each, and transport them with themselves.
§38.36.4priusquam in provincias novi magistratus proficiscerentur, supplicatio triduum pro collegio decemvirorum imperata fuit in omnibus compitis, quod luce inter horam tertiam ferme et quartam tenebrae obortae fuerant.
Before the new magistrates set out for their provinces, a thanksgiving of three days was ordered by the college of decemvirs at all the crossroads, because during the daytime, between about the third and fourth hours, darkness had arisen.
et novemdiale sacrificium indictum est, quod in Aventino lapidibus pluvisset.
And a nine-day festival of sacrifice was proclaimed because it had rained stones on the Aventine.
§38.36.5Campani, cum eos ex senatus consulto, quod priore anno factum erat, censores Romae censeri coegissent — nam antea incertum fuerat, ubi censerentur —, petierunt, ut sibi cives Romanas ducere uxores liceret, §38.36.6et, si qui prius duxissent, ut habere eas, et nati ante eam diem uti iusti sibi liberi heredesque essent.
The Campanians, when the censors had compelled them to be registered at Rome in accordance with a decree of the senate passed the year before—for previously it had been uncertain where they should be registered—petitioned that they might be allowed to marry Roman citizens as wives, and, if any had previously married, that they might keep them, and that children born before that day might be legitimate children and heirs to them.
§38.36.7utraque res impetrata.
Both requests were granted.
de Formianis Fundanisque municipibus et Arpinatibus C. Valerius Tappo tribunus plebis promulgavit, ut iis suffragii latio — nam antea sine suffragio habuerant civitatem — esset.
Concerning the citizens of the municipia of Formiae, Fundi, and Arpinum, Gaius Valerius Tappo, a tribune of the plebs, proposed a bill that they should have the right of voting—for previously they had possessed citizenship without the right of suffrage.
§38.36.8huic rogationi quattuor tribuni plebis, quia non ex auctoritate senatus ferretur, cum intercederent, edocti, populi esse, non senatus ius suffragium, quibus velit,
When four tribunes of the plebs vetoed this bill because it was not brought forward on the authority of the senate, they were instructed that the right to bestow the vote upon whomsoever it wished belonged to the people, not to the senate, and they desisted from their attempt.
§38.36.9impertire, destiterunt incepto rogatio perlata est, ut in Aemilia tribu Formiani et Fundani, in Cornelia Arpinates ferrent; atque in his tribubus tum primum ex Valerio plebiscito censi sunt.
The bill was passed, that the Formians and Fundans should vote in the Aemilian tribe, and the Arpinates in the Cornelia tribe; and in these tribes they were then for the first time registered under the Valerian plebiscite.
§38.36.10M. Claudius Marcellus censor sorte superato T. Quinctio lustrum condidit.
The censor Marcus Claudius Marcellus, having defeated Titus Quinctius by lot, closed the lustrum.
censa sunt civium capita CCLVIII CCCXVIII. lustro perfecto consules in provincias profecti sunt.
There were registered two hundred and fifty-eight thousand, three hundred and eighteen citizen heads. The lustrum being completed, the consuls set out for their provinces.