§8.5.1ubi est Romam ventum, in Capitolio eis senatus datus est.
When they arrived at Rome, an audience with the senate was granted to them on the Capitol.
ibi cum T. Manlius consul egisset cum eis ex auctoritate patrum, §8.5.2ne Samnitibus foederatis bellum inferrent, Annius, tamquam victor armis Capitolium cepisset, non legatus iure gentium tutus loqueretur: §8.5.3“tempus erat” inquit, “T. Manli vosque patres conscripti, tandem iam vos nobiscum nihil pro imperio agere, cum florentissimum deum benignitate nunc Latium armis virisque, Samnitibus bello victis, Sidicinis Campanisque sociis, nunc etiam Volscis adiunctis, videretis, colonias quoque vestras Latinum Romano praetulisse imperium. §8.5.4sed quoniam vos, regno inpotenti finem ut inponatis, non inducitis in animum, nos, quamquam armis possumus adserere Latium in libertatem, consanguinitati tamen hoc dabimus, ut condiciones pacis feramus aequas utrisque, quoniam vires quoque aequari dis inmortalibus placuit. §8.5.5consulem alterum Roma, alterum ex Latio creari oportet, senatus partem aequam ex utraque gente esse, unum populum, unam rem publicam fieri; §8.5.6et ut imperii eadem sedes sit idemque omnibus nomen, quoniam ab altera utra parte concedi necesse est, quod utrisque bene vertat, sit haec sane patria potior, et Romani omnes vocemur. ” forte ita accidit, §8.5.7ut parem ferociae huius et Romani consulem T. Manlium haberent, qui adeo non tenuit iram, ut, si tanta dementia patres conscriptos cepisset, ut ab Setino homine leges acciperent, gladio cinctum in senatum venturum se esse palam diceret et, quemcumque in curia Latinum vidisset, sua manu interempturum. §8.5.8et conversus ad simulacrum Iouis “audi, Iuppiter, haec scelera” inquit;
There, when the consul Titus Manlius had treated with them by the authority of the patricians,\n urging that they should not bring war upon the allied Samnites, Annius, as if he had captured the Capitol by arms as a victor, rather than speaking as an ambassador protected by the law of nations, said:\n "It was high time, Titus Manlius, and you, conscript fathers, that you should at last cease to act in any way towards us by right of empire, since you see that Latium is now most flourishing by the favor of the gods in arms and men, with the Samnites conquered in war, the Sidicini and Campanians as allies, and now even the Volscians joined to us, and that your own colonies too have preferred the Latin empire to the Roman.\n But since you do not bring your minds to put an end to your unrestrained rule, we, although we are able by arms to assert the liberty of Latium, will yet grant this to our common blood, that we bring conditions of peace that are equal to both sides, since it has pleased the immortal gods that our strength also should be equalized.\n It is fitting that one consul be created from Rome, the other from Latium, that an equal part of the senate be from each nation, and that there be one people, one commonwealth;\n and so that there may be the same seat of empire and the same name for all—since it is necessary that concession be made by one of the two sides, and may this turn out well for both—let this city indeed be the preferred mother country, and let us all be called Romans."\nIt happened by chance that,\n just as the Romans had a consul, Titus Manlius, equal to this fierceness, who so little restrained his anger that he openly declared that if such madness should seize the conscript fathers that they should accept laws from a man of Setia, he would come into the senate girded with a sword, and would slay with his own hand whatever Latin he should see in the curia.\n And turning to the statue of Jupiter, he said: "Hear, Jupiter, these impieties; hear, Justice and Divine Law.
“audite, Ius Fasque. peregrinos consules et peregrinum senatum in tuo, Iuppiter, augurato templo captus ipse atque oppressus visurus es? §8.5.9haecine foedera Tullus, Romanus rex, cum Albanis, patribus vestris, Latini, haec L. Tarquinius vobiscum postea fecit?
Are you, Jupiter, yourself captured and oppressed, to behold foreign consuls and a foreign senate in your own consecrated temple?\n Did Tullus, the Roman king, make such treaties with the Albans, your ancestors, Latins, or did Lucius Tarquinius make such treaties with you afterwards?\n Does not the battle at Lake Regillus come to mind?
§8.5.10non venit in mentem pugna apud Regillum lacum? adeo et cladium veterum vestrarum et beneficiorum nostrorum ergo vos obliti estis?”
Have you so completely forgotten both your own ancient disasters and our benefits towards you?"