§42.21.1consules ad id tempus in provinciam non exierant, quia neque, uti de M. Popilio referrent, senatui obsequebantur, et nihil aliud decernere prius statutum patribus erat.
The consuls up to that time had not departed for their province, because they neither complied with the senate to bring a motion regarding Marcus Popilius, and it had been determined by the senators to decree nothing else before that.
§42.21.2aucta etiam invidia est Popili litteris, quibus iterum cum Statellatibus Liguribus proconsul pugnasse se scripsit ac sex milia eorum occidisse; propter cuius iniuriam belli ceteri quoque Ligurum populi ad arma ierunt.
The unpopularity of Popilius was also increased by his letter, in which he wrote that as proconsul he had fought again with the Statellate Ligurians and had killed six thousand of them; on account of the injustice of which war the rest of the Ligurian peoples also took up arms.
§42.21.3tum vero non absens modo Popilius, qui deditis contra ius ac fas bellum intulisset et pacatos ad rebellandum incitasset, sed consules, quod non exirent in provinciam, in senatu increpiti.
Then indeed, not only the absent Popilius, who had brought war upon the surrendered contrary to human law and divine will and had incited the pacified to rebel, but also the consuls, because they did not depart for their province, were rebuked in the senate.
§42.21.4hoc consensu patrum accensi M. Marcius Sermo et Q. Marcius Scilla, tribuni plebis, et consulibus multam se dicturos, nisi in provinciam exirent, denuntiarunt, et rogationem, quam de Liguribus deditis promulgare in animo haberent, in senatu recitarunt.
Incensed by this consensus of the senators, Marcus Marcius Sermo and Quintus Marcius Scilla, tribunes of the plebs, both declared to the consuls that they would impose a fine unless they departed for their province, and read aloud in the senate the proposal which they had in mind to publish concerning the surrendered Ligurians.
§42.21.5sanciebatur, ut, qui ex Statellis deditis in libertatem restitutus ante kal. Sextiles primas non esset, cuius dolo malo is in servitutem venisset, ut iuratus senatus decerneret, qui eam rem quaereret animadverteretque.
It was enacted that, whoever of the surrendered Statellates should not have been restored to freedom before the upcoming Kalends of August, and through whose malice he had come into servitude, the senate, under oath, should decree who should investigate and punish that matter.
ex auctoritate deinde senatus eam rogationem promulgarunt.
Then, by the authority of the senate, they published that proposal.
§42.21.6priusquam proficiscerentur consules, C. Cicereio, praetori prioris anni, ad aedem Bellonae senatus datus est.
Before the consuls set out, an audience with the senate was granted to Gaius Cicereius, praetor of the previous year, at the temple of Bellona.
§42.21.7is expositis, quas in Corsica res gessisset, postulatoque frustra triumpho, in monte Albano, quod iam in morem venerat, ut sine publica auctoritate fieret, triumphavit.
He, having set forth what things he had done in Corsica, and having demanded a triumph in vain, celebrated a triumph on the Alban Mount, which had now come into custom to be done without public authority.
§42.21.8rogationem Marciam de Liguribus magno consensu plebes scivit iussitque.
The plebs, with great consensus, voted and enacted the Marcian proposal concerning the Ligurians.
ex eo plebiscito C. Licinius praetor consuluit senatum, quem quaerere ea rogatione vellet.
Based on this plebiscite, Gaius Licinius, the praetor, consulted the senate as to whom they wished to conduct the investigation under that proposal.
patres ipsum eum quaerere iusserunt.
The senators ordered that he himself should conduct the investigation.