§6.42.1oratio Appi ad id modo valuit, ut tempus rogationum iubendarum proferretur.
The speech of Appius had effect only to this extent, that the time for enacting the bills was postponed.
§6.42.2refecti decumum iidem tribuni Sextius et Licinius de decemviris sacrorum ex parte de plebe creandis legem pertulere.
Re-elected for the tenth time, the same tribunes, Sextius and Licinius, carried through the law concerning the creation of the decemvirs of sacred rites partly from the plebs.
creati quinque patrum, quinque plebis; graduque eo iam via facta ad consulatum videbatur.
Five from the patricians and five from the plebs were created; and by that step, the way to the consulship already seemed to have been opened.
§6.42.3hac victoria contenta plebes cessit patribus, ut in praesentia consulum mentione omissa tribuni militum crearentur.
Content with this victory, the plebeians yielded to the patricians so that, for the present, omitting the mention of consuls, military tribunes were created.
creati A. et M. Cornelii iterum, M. Geganius, P. Manlius, L. Veturius, P. Valerius sextum.
Aulus and Marcus Cornelius (for the second time), Marcus Geganius, Publius Manlius, Lucius Veturius, and Publius Valerius (for the sixth time) were created.
§6.42.4cum praeter Velitrarum obsidiouem, tardi magis rem exitus quam dubii, quietae externae res Romanis essent, fama repens belli Gallici allata perpulit civitatem, ut M. Furius dictator quintum diceretur.
While, except for the siege of Velitrae, an affair more slow in its outcome than doubtful, external matters were quiet for the Romans, a sudden rumor of a Gallic war was brought and impelled the state to declare Marcus Furius dictator for the fifth time.
is T. Quinctium Poenum magistrum equitum dixit.
He named Titus Quinctius Poenus master of the horse.
§6.42.5bellatum cum Gallis eo anno circa Anienem flumen auctor est Claudius inclitamque in ponte pugnam, qua T. Manlius Gallum, cum quo provocatus manus conseruit, in conspectu duorum exercituum caesum torque spoliavit, tum pugnatam.
Claudius is the authority that a war was waged with the Gauls that year near the river Anio, and that the famous battle on the bridge, in which Titus Manlius, having engaged in combat with a Gaul by whom he had been challenged, slew him in the sight of both armies and despoiled him of his collar, was fought then.
§6.42.6pluribus auctoribus magis adducor, ut credam decem haud minus post annos ea acta, hoc autem anno in Albano agro cum Gallis dictatore M. Furio signa conlata.
I am more led by a greater number of authors to believe that those things were done not less than ten years later, but that in this year, under the dictator Marcus Furius, standards were joined with the Gauls in the Alban territory.
nec dubia nec difficilis Romanis, §6.42.7quamquam ingentem Galli terrorem memoria pristinae cladis attulerant, victoria fuit.
Neither doubtful nor difficult for the Romans was the victory, although the Gauls had brought immense terror by the memory of their former defeat.
multa milia barbarorum in acie, multa captis castris caesa; §6.42.8palati alii Apuliam maxime petentes cum fuga se longinqua, tum quod passim eos simul pavor errorque distulerant, ab hoste tutati sunt.
Many thousands of the barbarians were slain in the battle line, and many when the camp was captured; others, dispersing and seeking Apulia especially, protected themselves from the enemy both by their distant flight and because terror and confusion had scattered them in all directions at the same time.
dictatori consensu patrum plebisque triumphus decretus.
By the consensus of the patricians and the plebs, a triumph was decreed to the dictator.
§6.42.9uixdum perfunctum eum bello atrocior domi seditio excepit; et per ingentia certamina dictator senatusque victus, ut rogationes tribuniciae acciperentur; et comitia consulum adversa nobilitate habita, quibus L. Sextius de plebe primus consul factus.
Scarcely had he finished with the war when a more fierce sedition at home awaited him; and through immense struggles, the dictator and the senate were defeated, so that the tribunician bills were accepted; and the consular elections were held against the will of the nobility, in which Lucius Sextius was made the first consul from the plebs.
§6.42.10et ne is quidem finis certaminum fuit.
And not even that was the end of the struggles.
quia patricii se auctores futuros negabant, §6.42.11prope secessionem plebis res terribilesque alias minas civilium certaminum venit, cum tandem per dictatorem condicionibus sedatae discordiae sunt concessumque ab nobilitate plebi de consule plebeio, a plebe nobilitati de praetore uno, qui ius in urbe diceret, ex patribus creando.
Because the patricians denied that they would be the approvers, matters came near a secession of the plebs and other terrible threats of civil struggles, when at length, through the dictator, the discords were quieted on terms, and it was conceded by the nobility to the plebs concerning the plebeian consul, and by the plebs to the nobility concerning one praetor to be created from the patricians, who should administer justice in the city.
§6.42.12ita ab diutina ira tandem in concordiam redactis ordinibus cum dignam eam rem senatus censeret esse, meritoque id, si quando umquam alias, deum inmortalium fore, ut ludi maximi fierent et dies unus ad triduum adiceretur, §6.42.13recusantibus id munus aedilibus plebis, conclamatum a patriciis est iuvenibus se id honoris deum inmortalium causa libenter facturos, ut aediles fierent.
Thus, the orders being at last restored to concord after long-standing anger, when the senate thought that this matter was worthy, and that it would be appropriately, if ever at any other time, of the immortal gods that the great games should be held and one day added to the three, with the plebeian aediles refusing that duty, it was cried out by the patrician youths that they would gladly perform that honor for the sake of the immortal gods, so that they might become aediles.
§6.42.14quibus cum ab universis gratiae actae essent, factum senatus consultum, ut duoviros aediles ex patribus dictator populum rogaret, patres auctores omnibus eius anni comitiis fierent.
When thanks had been returned to them by all, a decree of the senate was made that the dictator should ask the people for two aediles from the patricians, and that the patricians should become approvers for all the elections of that year.