§6.11.1insequenti anno A. Manlio, P. Cornelio, T. et L. Quinctiis Capitolinis, L. Papirio Cursore iterum, C. Sergio iterum tribunis consulari potestate grave bellum foris, gravior domi seditio exorta:
In the following year, when A. Manlius, P. Cornelius, T. and L. Quinctius Capitolinus, L. Papirius Cursor for the second time, and C. Sergius for the second time were tribunes with consular power, a serious war broke out abroad, and a still more serious sedition at home.
§6.11.2bellum ab Volscis adiuncta Latinorum atque Hernicorum defectione, seditio, unde minime timeri potuit, a patriciae gentis viro et inclitae famae, M. Manlio Capitolino.
The war was from the Volscians, joined by the defection of the Latins and Hernici; the sedition, from a quarter where it could least have been feared, was from a man of patrician birth and of distinguished fame, M. Manlius Capitolinus.
§6.11.3qui nimius animi cum alios principes sperneret, uni invideret, eximio simul honoribus atque virtutibus, M. Furio, aegre ferebat solum eum in magistratibus, solum apud exercitus esse: §6.11.4tantum iam eminere, ut iisdem auspiciis creatos non pro collegis sed pro ministris habeat, cum interim, si quis vere aestimare velit, a M. Furio recuperari patria ex obsidione hostium non potuerit, nisi a se prius Capitolium atque arx servata esset,
Who, being of too lofty a spirit, while he despised the other leading men, envied only one, M. Furius, who was pre-eminent both in honors and in merits; he bore it with impatience that he alone should be in magistracies, he alone at the head of the armies: that he now stood so high that he regarded those elected under the same auspices not as colleagues but as servants, whereas in the meantime, if anyone should wish to estimate the truth fairly, the fatherland could not have been recovered by M.
§6.11.5et ille inter aurum accipiendum et in spem pacis solutis animis Gallos adgressus sit, ipse armatos capientesque arcem depulerit, illius gloriae pars virilis apud omnes milites sit, qui simul vicerint, suae victoriae neminem omnium mortalium socium esse constet.
Furius from the siege of the enemy, had not the Capitol and the citadel been saved first by himself; and that while the former had attacked the Gauls while they were receiving the gold and when their minds were relaxed in the hope of peace, he himself had repulsed them while armed and taking the citadel; that of the former's glory a man's share belonged to all the soldiers who had conquered together with him, while of his own victory it was certain that no mortal being was a partner.
His opinionibus inflato animo, §6.11.6ad hoc vitio quoque ingenii vehemens et inpotens, postquam inter patres non, §6.11.7quantum aecum censebat, excellere suas opes animadvertit, primus omnium ex patribus popularis factus cum plebeis magistratibus consilia communicare, criminando patres, alliciendo ad se plebem iam aura, non consilio ferri famaeque magnae malle quam bonae esse.
His mind being puffed up with these thoughts, furthermore, vehement and ungovernable also by the defect of his character, after he perceived that his influence did not stand as high among the patricians as he thought fair, he became the first of all the patricians to be a popular leader, and began to share his counsels with the plebeian magistrates, by slandering the patricians and attracting the plebs to himself, being now carried away by the breeze of popularity and not by reason, and preferring to have a great reputation rather than a good one.
§6.11.8et non contentus agrariis legibus, quae materia semper tribunis plebi seditionum fuisset, fidem moliri coepit: acriores quippe aeris alieni stimulos esse, qui non egestatem modo atque ignominiam minentur, sed nervo ac vinculis corpus liberum territent.
And not content with agrarian laws, which had always been the material of seditions for the tribunes of the plebs, he began to undermine public credit; for indeed, the stings of debt are sharper, which not only threaten poverty and ignominy, but terrify a free body with physical confinement and chains.
§6.11.9et erat aeris alieni magna vis re damnosissima etiam divitibus, aedificando, contracta.
And there was a vast amount of debt, contracted through rebuilding, an undertaking most ruinous even to the wealthy.
bellum itaque Volscum, grave per se, oneratum Latinorum atque Hernicorum defectione, in speciem causae iactatum, ut maior potestas quaereretur; §6.11.10sed nova consilia Manli magis conpulere senatum ad dictatorem creandum.
Therefore, the Volscian war, serious in itself, but made heavier by the defection of the Latins and Hernici, was put forward under the appearance of a cause, so that a greater power might be sought; but the new plans of Manlius rather compelled the senate to create a dictator.
creatus A. Cornelius Cossus magistrum equitum dixit T. Quinctium Capitolinum.
A. Cornelius Cossus, having been created, named T. Quinctius Capitolinus as master of the horse.