§4.50.1perlata haec vox Postumi ad milites multo in castris maiorem indignationem movit: praedaene interceptorem fraudatoremque etiam malum minari militibus?
This statement of Postumius, when carried to the soldiers, moved much greater indignation in the camp: was a stealer and cheater of their plunder even threatening his soldiers with punishment?
§4.50.2itaque cum fremitus aperte esset et quaestor P. Sestius eadem violentia coerceri putaret seditionem posse, qua mota erat, misso ad vociferantem quendam militem lictore, cum inde clamor et iurgium oreretur, saxo ictus turba excedit insuper increpante, §4.50.3qui vulneraverat, habere quaestorem, quod imperator esset militibus minatus.
Therefore, when the murmuring was open, and the quaestor Publius Sestius thought that the mutiny could be suppressed by the same violence by which it had been excited, having sent a lictor to a certain soldier who was shouting, when a clamor and altercation arose from this, he was struck by a stone and withdrew from the crowd, while the one who had wounded him shouted in addition, that the quaestor had what the general had threatened to the soldiers.
§4.50.4ad hunc tumultum accitus Postumius asperiora omnia fecit acerbis quaestionibus, crudelibus suppliciis.
Summoned to this tumult, Postumius made everything harsher by severe inquiries and cruel punishments.
postremo, cum modum irae nullum faceret, ad vociferationem eorum, quos necari sub crate iusserat, concursu facto ipse ad interpellantis poenam vecors de tribunali decurrit.
Finally, when he set no limit to his anger, a crowd having gathered at the outcries of those whom he had ordered to be put to death under a hurdle, he himself, out of his mind, ran down from the tribunal to punish those who interrupted.
§4.50.5ibi cum submoventes passim lictores. centurionesque vexarent turbam, eo indignatio erupit, ut tribunus militum ab exercitu suo lapidibus cooperiretur.
There, while the lictors and centurions, clearing the way in every direction, were handling the crowd roughly, the indignation broke out to such a degree that the military tribune was covered with stones by his own army.
§4.50.6quod tam atrox facinus postquam est Romam nuntiatum, tribunis militum de morte collegae per senatum quaestiones decernentibus tribuni plebis intercedebant.
After this so atrocious a crime was reported to Rome, while the military tribunes were decreeing inquiries into the death of their colleague through the senate, the tribunes of the plebs vetoed them.
sed ea contentio ex certamine alio pendebat, §4.50.7quod cura incesserat patres, ne metu quaestionum plebs iraque tribunos militum ex plebe crearet, tendebantque summa ope, ut consules crearentur.
But that contention depended on another conflict, because a concern had seized the patricians lest the plebs, from fear and anger of the inquiries, should elect military tribunes from the plebs, and they were striving with all their might that consuls should be elected.
§4.50.8cum senatus consultum fieri tribuni plebis non paterentur, iidem intercederent consularibus comitiis, res ad interregnum rediit.
Since the tribunes of the plebs would not suffer a decree of the senate to be made, and the same vetoed the consular elections, the matter returned to an interregnum.
victoria deinde penes patres fuit.
The victory then remained with the patricians.