§8.32.1clamor e tota contione ortus, uti bonum animum haberet: neminem illi vim adlaturum salvis legionibus Romanis.
A shout arose from the entire assembly, telling him to keep a good heart: no one would bring violence upon him as long as the Roman legions were safe.
haud multo post dictator advenit classicoque extemplo ad contionem advocavit.
Not long after, the dictator arrived and immediately called them to an assembly by a trumpet.
§8.32.2tum silentio facto praeco Q. Fabium magistrum equitum citavit.
Then, silence having been made, the herald summoned Q. Fabius, the master of the horse.
qui simul ex inferiore loco ad tribunal accessit, §8.32.3tum dictator “quaero” inquit “de te, Q. Fabi, cum summum imperium dictatoris sit pareantque ei consules, regia potestas, praetores, iisdem auspiciis quibus consules creati, aequum censeas necne magistrum equitum dicto audientem esse?
As soon as he approached the tribunal from a lower position, the dictator said: "I ask of you, Q. Fabius, since the supreme power belongs to the dictator, and the consuls, who possess kingly power, and the praetors, created under the same auspices as the consuls, obey him, whether you think it right or not that the master of the horse should be obedient to his command?
§8.32.4itemque illud interrogo, cum me incertis auspiciis profectum ab domo scirem, utrum mihi turbatis religionibus res publica in discrimen committenda fuerit, an auspicia repetenda, ne quid dubiis dis agerem?
And likewise I ask this, since I knew that I had set out from home with uncertain auspices, whether, when the religious rites were disturbed, I ought to have committed the commonwealth to danger, or whether the auspices should have been repeated, so that I might do nothing while the gods were doubtful?
§8.32.5simul illud, quae dictatori religio inpedimento ad rem gerendam fuerit, num ea magister equitum solutus ac liber potuerit esse? sed quid ego haec interrogo, cum, si ego tacitus abissem, tamen tibi ad voluntatis interpretationem meae dirigenda tua sententia fuerit?
At the same time, I ask what religious constraint that was a hindrance to the dictator in conducting affairs could the master of the horse have been free and exempt from? But why do I ask these things, when, even if I had departed in silence, your judgment ought to have been directed toward the interpretation of my will?
§8.32.6quin tu respondes, vetuerimne te quicquam rei me absente agere, vetuerimne signa cum hostibus conferre?
Why do you not answer whether I forbade you to do any business in my absence, and whether I forbade you to join battle with the enemy?
§8.32.7quo tu imperio meo spreto, incertis auspiciis, turbatis religionibus adversus morem militarem disciplinamque maiorum et numen deorum ausus es cum hoste confligere.
Despising this command of mine, with uncertain auspices and disturbed religious rites, contrary to military custom, the discipline of our ancestors, and the will of the gods, you dared to fight with the enemy.
§8.32.8ad haec, quae interrogatus es, responde; at extra ea cave vocem mittas.
Answer to these things about which you have been asked; but beware of uttering a word beyond them.
accede, lictor. ” §8.32.9aduersus quae singula cum respondere haud facile esset et nunc quereretur eundem accusatorem capitis sui ac iudicem esse, modo vitam sibi eripi citius quam gloriam rerum gestarum posse vociferaretur purgaretque se in vicem atque ultro accusaret, §8.32.10tunc Papirius redintegrata ira spoliari magistrum equitum ac virgas et secures expediri iussit.
Approach, lictor." Since it was not easy to answer these individual points, and at one moment he complained that the same man was the accuser of his life and his judge, and at another moment he cried out that his life could be snatched away sooner than the glory of his achievements, and in turn cleared himself and moreover accused the other, then Papirius, with renewed anger, ordered the master of the horse to be stripped and the rods and axes to be prepared.
§8.32.11Fabius fidem militum inplorans lacerantibus vestem lictoribus ad triarios tumultum ultima in contione miscentes sese recepit.
Fabius, imploring the protection of the soldiers while the lictors were tearing his clothing, withdrew to the triarii, who were stirring up a tumult in the outermost part of the assembly.
§8.32.12inde clamor in totam contionem est perlatus.
From there, the shout was carried into the whole assembly.
alibi preces, alibi minae audiebantur; qui proximi forte tribunali steterant, quia subiecti oculis imperatoris noscitari poterant, orabant, ut parceret magistro equitum neu cum eo exercitum damnaret; §8.32.13extrema contio et circa Fabium globus increpabant inclementem dictatorem nec procul seditione aberant.
In one place prayers, in another threats were heard; those who by chance had stood nearest the tribunal, because they could be recognized under the eyes of the commander, were begging him to spare the master of the horse and not to condemn the army along with him; the outer assembly and the crowd around Fabius were reproaching the merciless dictator and were not far from mutiny.
ne tribunal quidem satis quietum erat; §8.32.14legati circumstantes sellam orabant, ut rem in posterum diem differret et irae suae spatium et consilio tempus daret: §8.32.15satis castigatam adulescentiam Fabi esse, satis deformatam victoriam; ne ad extremum finem supplicii tenderet neu unico iuveni, neu patri eius, clarissimo viro, neu Fabiae genti eam iniungeret ignominiam.
Not even the tribunal was peaceful enough; the legates, standing around his chair, were begging him to defer the matter to the next day, and to give space to his anger and time for deliberation: saying that the youth of Fabius had been sufficiently chastised, and his victory sufficiently defaced; let him not press toward the extreme limit of punishment, nor inflict such ignominy upon an extraordinary youth, or upon his father, a most illustrious man, or upon the Fabian family.
§8.32.16cum parum precibus, parum causa proficerent, intueri saevientem contionem iubebant: ita inritatis militum animis subdere ignem ac materiam seditioni non esse aetatis, non prudentiae eius;
When they made little progress by prayers or by the merits of the case, they urged him to look at the raging assembly: with the minds of the soldiers thus irritated, to supply fire and fuel for mutiny was not suited to his age, nor to his prudence; no one would turn it into a fault against Q.
§8.32.17neminem id Q. Fabio poenam deprecanti suam vitio versurum, sed dictatori, si occaecatus ira infestam multitudinem in se pravo certamine movisset.
Fabius for deprecating his own punishment, but they would against the dictator, if, blinded by anger, he had stirred up the hostile multitude against himself in a perverse contest.
§8.32.18postremo, ne id se gratiae dare.
Finally, lest he should believe they were granting this to the favor of Q.
Q. Fabi crederet, se ius iurandum dare paratos esse non videri e re publica in Q. Fabium eo tempore animadverti.
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