§39.44.1in equitatu recognoscendo L. Scipioni Asiatico ademptus equus.
In the review of the cavalry, the horse was taken away from Lucius Scipio Asiaticus.
in censibus quoque accipiendis tristis et aspera in omnes ordines censure fuit.
In conducting the census, too, the censorship was severe and harsh against all classes.
§39.44.2ornamenta et vestem muliebrem et vehicula, quae pluris quam quindecim milium aeris essent, deciens tanto pltrisquam quanti essent in censum referre iuratores iussi; item mancipia minora annis viginti, §39.44.3quae post proximum lustrum decem milibus aeris aut pluris eo venissent, uti ea quoque deciens tanto pluris quam quanti essent aestimarentur, et his rebus omnibus terni in milia aeris attribuerentur.
The declarers were ordered to register in the census ornaments, women's dress, and vehicles which were worth more than fifteen thousand asses, at ten times more than what their value was; likewise slaves under twenty years of age, which since the last lustrum had been sold for ten thousand asses or more, should also be valued at ten times more than what they were worth, and upon all these objects a tax of three asses per thousand asses should be imposed.
§39.44.4aquam publicam omnem in privatum aedificium aut agrum fluentem ademerunt; et quae in loca publica inaedificata immolitave privati habebant, intra dies triginta demoliti sunt.
They cut off all public water flowing into private buildings or land; and they demolished within thirty days whatever buildings or structures private individuals had built on public land.
§39.44.5opera deinde facienda ex decreta in eam rem pecunia, lacus sternendos lapide, detergendasque, qua opus esset, cloacas, in Aventino et in aliis partibus, qua nondum erant, faciendas locaverunt.
They then contracted for public works to be done with the money decreed for that purpose: the paving of reservoirs with stone, the cleaning of sewers wherever necessary, and the construction of sewers on the Aventine and in other parts where there were none as yet.
§39.44.6et separatim Flaccus molem ad Neptunias aquas, ut iter populo esset, et viam per Formianum montem, §39.44.7Cato atria duo, Maenium et Titium, in lautumiis, et quattuor tabernas in publicum emit basilicamque ibi fecit, quae Porcia appellata est.
And individually, Flaccus contracted for a dike at the waters of Neptune, so that there might be a passage for the people, and a road through the Formian mountain; Cato bought for the public two halls, the Maenium and Titius, in the stone-quarries, and four shops, and built a basilica there, which was called the Porcian.
et vectigalia summis pretiis, ultro tributa infimis locaverunt.
And they leased the taxes at the highest prices, and contracted out the public works at the lowest.
§39.44.8quas locationes cum senatus precibus et lacrimis victus publicanorum induci et de integro locari iussisset, censores, edicto summotis ab hasta qui ludificati priorem locationem erant, omnia eadem paululum imminutis pretiis locaverunt.
When the senate, overcome by the prayers and tears of the tax-farmers, had ordered these leases to be cancelled and to be contracted anew, the censors, having by an edict excluded from the auction those who had trifled with the former lease, contracted for all the same things at slightly reduced prices.
§39.44.9nobilis censura fuit simultatiumque plena, quae M. Porcium, cui acerbitas ea adsignabatur, per omnem vitam exercuerunt.
The censorship was famous and full of feuds, which harassed Marcus Porcius, to whom that severity was attributed, throughout his whole life.
eodem anno coloniae duae, §39.44.10Potentia in Picenum Pisaurum in Gallicum agrum, deductae sunt.
In the same year two colonies, Potentia in Picenum, and Pisaurum in the Gallic territory, were founded.
sena iugera in singulos data.
Six iugera were given to each person.
diviserunt agrum coloniasque deduxerunt iidem tresviri, Q. Fabius Labeo, et M. et Q. Fulvii, Flaccus et Nobilior.
The land was divided and the colonies led out by the same triumvirs, Quintus Fabius Labeo, and Marcus and Quintus Fulvius, Flaccus and Nobilior.
§39.44.11consules eius anni nec domi nec militiae memorabile quicquam egerunt.
The consuls of that year did nothing memorable either at home or in war.