§7.41.1adprobantibus clamore cunctis T. Quinctius ante signa progressus in potestate dictatoris milites fore dixit; oravit, ut causam miserorum civium susciperet susceptamque eadem fide, qua rem publicam administrare solitus esset, tueretur.
With everyone approving with a shout, Titus Quinctius, having advanced before the standards, said that the soldiers would be in the power of the dictator; he begged that he would undertake the cause of the wretched citizens and protect it, once undertaken, with the same loyalty with which he was accustomed to administer the republic.
§7.41.2sibi se privatim nihil cavere; nolle alibi quam in innocentia spem habere; militibus cavendum, quod apud patres semel plebi, iterum legionibus cautum sit, ne fraudi secessio esset.
For himself privately he secured nothing; he did not wish to have hope anywhere else than in his innocence; but precaution must be taken for the soldiers, as had been secured once for the plebeians and a second time for the legions among the patricians, that the secession should not be a detriment to them.
§7.41.3Quinctio conlaudato ceteris bonum animum habere iussis dictator equo citato ad urbem revectus auctoribus patribus tulit ad populum in luco Petelino, ne cui militum fraudi secessio esset; oravit etiam bona venia Quirites, ne quis eam rem ioco seriove cuiquam exprobraret.
Having praised Quinctius and ordered the others to be of good courage, the dictator, riding back to the city on a swift horse, with the authorization of the patricians, proposed a law to the people in the Peteline grove, that the secession should not be a detriment to any of the soldiers; he also, with their kind permission, begged the Quirites that no one should reproach anyone with that matter either in jest or in earnest.
§7.41.4lex quoque sacrata militaris lata est, ne cuius militis scripti nomen nisi ipso volente deleretur; additumque legi, ne quis, ubi ordinum ductor fuisset, postea tribunus militum esset.
A sacred military law was also passed, that the name of no enlisted soldier should be erased except with his own consent; and it was added to the law that no one, after he had been a leader of the ranks, should afterwards be a military tribune.
§7.41.5id propter P. Salonium postulatum est ab coniuratis, qui alternis prope annis et tribunus militum et primus centurio erat, quem nunc primi pili appellant.
This was demanded by the conspirators on account of Publius Salonius, who almost in alternate years was both a military tribune and a chief centurion, whom they now call 'of the first century'.
§7.41.6huic infensi milites erant, quod semper adversatus novis consiliis fuisset et, ne particeps eorum esset, ab Lautulis fugisset.
The soldiers were hostile to him because he had always opposed their new designs and, lest he should be a partaker in them, had fled from Lautulae.
§7.41.7itaque cum hoc unum propter Salonium ab senatu non impetraretur, tum Salonius obtestatus patres conscriptos, ne suum honorem pluris quam concordiam civitatis aestimarent, perpulit, ut id quoque ferretur.
And so, when this one thing was not obtained from the senate on account of Salonius, then Salonius himself, having besought the conscript fathers that they should not value his honor more than the harmony of the state, urged them so that this also was passed.
aeque inpotens postulatum fuit, §7.41.8ut de stipendio equitur — merebant autem triplex ea tempestate — aera demerentur, quod adversati coniurationi fuissent.
An equally unreasonable demand was made, that from the pay of the cavalry—now they earned triple at that time—the allowance should be reduced because they had opposed the conspiracy.