§8.37.1dictator triumphans urbem est ingressus; et, cum se dictatura abdicare vellet, iussu patrum, priusquam abdicaret, consules creavit C. Sulpicium Longum iterum Q. Aemilium Cerretanum.
The dictator entered the city in triumph; and, when he wished to abdicate the dictatorship, by order of the senators, before he abdicated, he elected Gaius Sulpicius Longus (for the second time) and Quintus Aemilius Cerretanus as consuls.
§8.37.2Samnites infecta pace, quia de condicionibus ambigebatur, indutias annuas ab urbe rettulerunt.
The Samnites, without peace being concluded, because there was dispute about the conditions, brought back a one-year truce from the city.
nec earum ipsarum sancta fides fuit; adeo, postquam Papirium abisse magistratu nuntiatum est, arrecti ad bellandum animi sunt.
Nor was the pledge of even that truce kept sacred; to such an extent, as soon as it was reported that Papirius had retired from office, were their minds aroused to war.
C. Sulpicio Q. Aemilio — §8.37.3Aulium quidam annales habent — consulibus ad defectionem Samnitium Apulum novum bellum accessit.
When Gaius Sulpicius and Quintus Aemilius— (certain annals have Aulius)—were consuls, a new war in Apulia was added to the revolt of the Samnites.
utroque exercitus missi.
Armies were sent to both places.
Sulpicio Samnites, Apuli Aemilio sorte evenerunt. sunt,
The Samnites fell by lot to Sulpicius, and the Apulians to Aemilius.
§8.37.4qui non ipsis Apulis bellum inlatum, sed socios eius gentis populos ab Samnitium vi atque iniuriis defensos scribant; §8.37.5ceterum fortuna Samnitium, vix a se ipsis eo tempore propulsantium bellum, propius ut sit vero facit, non Apulis ab Samnitibus arma inlata, sed cum utraque simul gente bellum Romanis fuisse.
There are those who write that war was not brought upon the Apulians themselves, but that the allied peoples of that nation were defended from the violence and injuries of the Samnites; but the situation of the Samnites, who at that time were scarcely warding off war from themselves, makes it more likely to be true that arms were not brought upon the Apulians by the Samnites, but that there was war for the Romans with both nations at the same time.
nec tamen res ulla memorabilis acta; §8.37.6ager Apulus Samniumque evastatum; hostes nec hic nec illic inventi.
Nevertheless, no memorable deed was performed; the Apulian territory and Samnium were thoroughly devastated; the enemy was found neither here nor there.
Romae nocturnus terror ita ex somno trepidam repente civitatem excivit, ut Capitolium atque arx moeniaque et portae plena armatorum fuerint; §8.37.7et, cum concursatum conclamatumque ad arma omnibus locis esset, prima luce nec auctor nec causa terroris conparuit.
At Rome, a nightly terror suddenly aroused the state, trembling from sleep, so that the Capitol and the citadel, the walls and the gates, were full of armed men; and, although there was running about and crying to arms in all places, at dawn neither the author nor the cause of the terror appeared.
§8.37.8eodem anno de Tusculanis Flavia rogatione populi fuit iudicium.
In the same year, a trial of the people concerning the Tusculans was held under the Flavius proposal.
M. Flavius tribunus plebis tulit ad populum, ut in Tusculanos animadverteretur, quod eorum ope ac consilio Veliterni Privernatesque populo Romano bellum fecissent.
Marcus Flavius, tribune of the plebs, proposed to the people that punishment should be inflicted on the Tusculans, because by their aid and counsel the Veliterni and Privernates had made war on the Roman people.
§8.37.9populus Tusculanus cum coniugibus ac liberis Romam venit.
The Tusculan people came to Rome with their wives and children.
ea multitudo veste mutata et specie reorum tribus circumit, genibus se omnium advolvens.
This multitude, with their garments changed and in the guise of defendants, went around the tribes, prostrating themselves at the knees of all.
§8.37.10plus itaque misericordia ad poenae veniam inpetrandam quam causa ad crimen purgandum valuit.
Therefore, mercy was of more avail for obtaining pardon of the punishment than their cause was for clearing them of the charge.
§8.37.11tribus omnes praeter Polliam antiquarunt legem.
All the tribes except the Pollia rejected the law.
Polliae sententia fuit, puberes verberatos necari, coniuges liberosque sub corona lege belli venire; §8.37.12memoriamque eius irae Tusculanis in poenae tam atrocis auctores mansisse ad patrum aetatem constat, nec quemquam ferme ex Pollia tribu candidatum Papiriam ferre solitum.
The opinion of the Pollia was that the adults should be scourged and put to death, and their wives and children sold under the crown by the law of war; and it is well established that the memory of this anger remained among the Tusculans against the authors of so cruel a punishment down to the age of our fathers, and that scarcely any candidate from the Pollia tribe was accustomed to carry the Papiria tribe.