§7.1.1annus hic erit insignis novi hominis consulatu, insignis novis duobus magistratibus, praetura et curuli aedilitate.
This year will be notable for the consulship of a new man, notable for two new magistracies, the praetorship and the curule aedileship.
hos sibi patricii quaesivere honores pro concesso plebi altero consulatu.
These honors the patricians sought for themselves in return for the other consulship conceded to the plebs.
§7.1.2plebes consulatum L. Sextio, cuius lege partus erat, dedit; patres praeturam Sp. Furio M. f. Camillo, aedilitatem Cn. Quinctio Capitolino et P. Cornelio Scipioni, suarum gentium viris, gratia campestri dederunt.
The plebs gave the consulship to Lucius Sextius, by whose law it had been won; the patricians gave the praetorship to Spurius Furius Camillus, son of Marcus, and the aedileship to Gnaeus Quinctius Capitolinus and Publius Cornelius Scipio, men of their own clans, through influence in the Campus.
L. Sextio collega ex patribus datus L. Aemilius Mamercinus.
As colleague to Lucius Sextius, Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus was given from the patricians.
§7.1.3principio anni et de Gallis, quos primo palatos per Apuliam congregari iam fama erat, et de Hernicorum defectione agitata mentio.
At the beginning of the year, mention was made both of the Gauls, whom rumor now said were gathering after being at first scattered through Apulia, and of the defection of the Hernici.
§7.1.4cum de industria omnia, ne quid per plebeium consulem ageretur, proferrentur, silentium omnium rerum ac iustitio simile otium fuit, §7.1.5nisi quod, non patientibus tacitum tribunis, quod pro consule uno plebeio tres patricios magistratus curulibus sellis praetextatos tamquam consules sedentes nobilitas sibi sumpsisset, §7.1.6praetorem quidem etiam iura reddentem et collegam consulibus atque iisdem auspiciis creatum, verecundia inde inposita est senatui ex patribus iubendi aediles curules creari.
Since all business was intentionally postponed, lest anything should be transacted through the plebeian consul, there was a silence in all affairs and an inactivity similar to a cessation of public business (iustitium), except that, the tribunes not suffering to pass in silence that, in return for one plebeian consul, the nobility had taken for themselves three patrician magistrates, clad in the praetexta and sitting on curule chairs like consuls, indeed, a praetor who even administered justice and was elected as a colleague to the consuls and under the same auspices; consequently, shame was imposed on the senate against ordering that the curule aediles be elected from the patricians.
primo, ut alternis annis ex plebe fierent, convenerat; postea promiscuum fuit.
At first, it had been agreed that they should be created from the plebs in alternate years; afterwards it was open to either.
inde L. Genucio §7.1.7et Q. Servilio consulibus et ab seditione et a bello quietis rebus, ne quando a metu ac periculis vacarent, pestilentia ingens orta.
Thereafter, Lucius Genucius and Quintus Servilius being consuls, and affairs being quiet both from sedition and from war, lest they should ever be free from fear and dangers, a great pestilence arose.
§7.1.8censorem, aedilem curulem, tres tribunos plebis mortuos ferunt, pro portione et ex multitudine alia multa funera fuisse; maxumeque eam pestilentiam insignem mors quamvis matura, tamen acerba M. Furi fecit.
They report that a censor, a curule aedile, and three tribunes of the plebs died, and that in proportion there were many other deaths from the multitude; and what made that pestilence especially notable was the death of Marcus Furius, which, though ripe in years, was nevertheless bitter.
§7.1.9fuit enim vere vir unicus in omni fortuna, princeps pace belloque, priusquam exulatum iret, clarior in exilio vel desiderio civitatis, quae capta absentis inploravit opem, vel felicitate, qua restitutus in patriam secum patriam ipsam restituit; §7.1.10par deinde per quinque et viginti annos — tot enim postea vixit — titulo tantae gloriae fuit dignusque habitus, quem secundum a Romulo conditorem urbis Romanae ferrent.
For he was truly a singular man in every fortune, foremost in peace and in war; illustrious before he went into exile, but more illustrious in his exile, whether from the longing of the state which, when captured, implored his aid in his absence, or from the good fortune with which, when restored to his country, he restored his country itself along with himself; thereafter, for twenty-five years — for he lived so many years afterwards — he was equal to the title of so great glory, and was deemed worthy of being celebrated as the second founder of the Roman city after Romulus.