§40.51.1censores fideli concordia senatum legerunt.
The censors, with faithful harmony, revised the roll of the Senate.
princeps lectus est ipse censor M. Aemilius Lepidus pontifex maximus:
The censor himself, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the chief pontiff, was chosen as leader of the Senate.
§40.51.2tres eiecti de senatu; retinuit quosdam Lepidus a collega praeteritos.
Three were expelled from the Senate; Lepidus retained some who had been passed over by his colleague.
opera ex pecunia attributa divisaque inter se haec Lepidus molem ad Tarracinam, ingratum opus, quod praedia habebat ibi privatamque publicae rei impensam inseruerat;
The public works, allotted from the assigned money, were divided between them as follows: Lepidus contracted for a breakwater at Tarracina, an unpopular work because he had estates there and had mixed private expenses with public business.
§40.51.3theatrum et proscenium ad Apollinis, aedem Iovis in Capitolio, columnasque circa poliendas albo locavit; et ab his columnis, quae incommode opposita videbantur, signa amovit clipeaque de columnis et signa militaria adfixa omnis generis dempsit.
He contracted for a theater and a proscenium at the temple of Apollo, the temple of Jupiter on the Capitol, and the columns around it to be polished with white plaster; and he removed the statues from these columns, which seemed inconveniently placed in the way, and took down the shields from the columns and the attached military standards of every kind.
§40.51.4M. Fulvius plura et maioris locavit usus: portum et pilas pontis in Tiberi, quibus pilis fornices post aliquot annos P. Scipio Africanus et L. Mummius censores locaverunt imponendos;
Marcus Fulvius contracted for more works of greater utility: a harbor and the piers of a bridge in the Tiber, upon which piers, several years later, the censors Publius Scipio Africanus and Lucius Mummius contracted for arches to be built.
§40.51.5basilicam post argentarias novas et forum piscatorium circumdatis tabernis quas vendidit in privatum; §40.51.6et porticum extra portam Trigeminam, et aliam post navalia et ad fanum Herculis et post Spei ad Tiberim et ad aedem Apollinis medici.
Also a basilica behind the new bankers' shops, and a fish market with surrounding shops which he sold into private hands; and a portico outside the Porta Trigemina, and another behind the dockyards, and at the shrine of Hercules, and behind the temple of Hope by the Tiber, and at the temple of Apollo the Healer.
§40.51.7habuere et in promiscuo praeterea pecuniam: ex ea communiter locarunt aquam adducendam fornicesque faciendos.
They also had money in common besides: from this, they jointly contracted for bringing in water and constructing arches.
impedimento operi fuit M. Licinius Crassus, qui per fundum suum duci non est passus.
Marcus Licinius Crassus, who did not allow it to be led through his estate, was an obstacle to the work.
§40.51.8portoria quoque et vectigalia iidem multa instituerunt.
The same censors also established many customs duties and taxes.
complura sacella publicaque loca, occupata a privatis, publica sacraque ut essent paterentque populo curarunt.
They took care that many small shrines and public places, occupied by private individuals, should be public and sacred and open to the people.
§40.51.9mutarunt suffragia, regionatimque generibus hominum causisque et quaestibus tribus discripserunt
They altered the voting system, and distributed the tribes by districts according to the classes, circumstances, and occupations of the people.