§41.8.1comitia deinde habita.
Then the elections were held.
consules creati C. Claudius Pulcher Ti. Sempronius Gracchus.
Gaius Claudius Pulcher and Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus were elected consuls.
et postero die praetores facti P. Aelius Tubero iterum C. Quinctius Flamininus C. Numisius L. Mummius Cn. Cornelius Scipio C. Valerius Laevinus.
On the following day Publius Aelius Tubero (for the second time), Gaius Quinctius Flamininus, Gaius Numisius, Lucius Mummius, Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio, and Gaius Valerius Laevinus were elected praetors.
§41.8.2Tuberoni urbana iurisdictio, Quinctio peregrina evenit, Numisio Sicilia, Mummio Sardinia; sed ea propter belli magnitudinem provincia consularis facta.
To Tubero fell the jurisdiction of the city, to Quinctius the jurisdiction over foreigners, to Numisius Sicily, and to Mummius Sardinia; but the latter, on account of the magnitude of the war, was made a consular province.
§41.8.3Scipio et Laevinus Galliam in duas divisam provincias sortiti sunt.
Scipio and Laevinus drew lots for Gaul, which was divided into two provinces.
§41.8.4idibus Martiis, quo die Sempronius Claudiusque consulatum inierunt, mentio tantum de provinciis Sardinia Histriaque et utriusque hostibus fuit, qui in his provinciis bellum concivissent.
On the Ides of March, the day on which Sempronius and Claudius entered upon their consulship, mention was made only of the provinces of Sardinia and Istria, and of the enemies in both, who had stirred up war in these provinces.
§41.8.5postero die legati Sardorum, qui ad novos magistratus dilati erant, et L. Minucius Thermus, qui legatus Manli consulis in Histria fuerat, in senatum venit.
On the following day, the envoys of the Sardinians, whose audience had been postponed until the arrival of the new magistrates, and Lucius Minucius Thermus, who had been the lieutenant of the consul Manlius in Istria, came into the senate.
ab his edoctus est senatus, quantum belli eae provinciae haberent.
By them the senate was informed of how great a war those provinces had on their hands.
§41.8.6moverunt senatum et legationes socium nominis Latini, quae et censores et priores consules fatigaverant, tandem in senatum introductae.
The senate was also moved by the embassies of the allies of the Latin name, who, after having exhausted both the censors and the former consuls, were finally introduced into the senate.
§41.8.7summa querellarum erat, cives suos Romae censos plerosque Romam commigrasse; quod si permittatur, perpaucis lustris futurum, ut deserta oppida, deserti agri nullum militem dare possint.
The chief of their complaints was that very many of their citizens, having been assessed at Rome, had migrated to Rome; if this were permitted, in a very few lustra it would happen that deserted towns and deserted fields would be unable to furnish any soldier.
§41.8.8Fregellas quoque milia quattuor familiarum transisse ab se Samnites Paelignique querebantur, neque eo minus aut hos aut illos in dilectu militum dare.
The Samnites and the Paelignians also complained that four thousand families had migrated from them to Fregellae, and that none the less both they and the others had to furnish the same number of soldiers in the levy.
§41.8.9genera autem fraudis duo mutandae viritim civitatis inducta erant.
Now two kinds of fraud had been introduced for changing citizenship individually.
lex sociis nominis Latini, qui stirpem ex sese domi relinquerent, dabat, ut cives Romani fierent.
The law granted to the allies of the Latin name, who should leave offspring behind them at home, the right to become Roman citizens.
ea lege male utendo alii sociis, alii populo Romano iniuriam faciebant.
By making a bad use of this law, some were doing injury to the allies, others to the Roman people.
§41.8.10nam et ne stirpem domi relinquerent, liberos suos quibuslibet Romanis in eam condicionem, ut manu mitterentur, mancipio dabant, libertinique cives essent; et quibus stirps deesset, quam relinquerent, ut cives Romani fiebant.
For on the one hand, so as not to leave offspring at home, they would give their children in adoption to any Roman on the condition that they should be manumitted, so that as freedmen they might be citizens; and on the other hand, those who had no offspring to leave behind were becoming Roman citizens.
§41.8.11postea his quoque imaginibus iuris spretis, promiscue sine lege, sine stirpe in civitatem Romanam per migrationem et censum transibant.
Afterwards, even these legal pretexts were despised, and they passed into Roman citizenship indiscriminately without law and without offspring, merely by migration and the census.
§41.8.12haec ne postea fierent, petebant legati, et ut redire in civitates iuberent socios; deinde ut lege caverent, ne quis quem civitatis mutandae causa suum faceret neve alienaret; et si quis ita civis Romanus factus esset, civis ne esset.
The envoys begged that these things might not happen in the future, and that the senate should order the allies to return to their own states; and further, that they should provide by law that no one, for the purpose of changing citizenship, should adopt anyone or alienate anyone; and that if anyone had been made a Roman citizen in this way, he should cease to be a citizen.
haec impetrata ab senatu.
These requests were granted by the senate.