§9.20.1M. Folius Flaccina inde et L. Plautius Venox consules facti.
Then M. Folius Flaccina and L. Plautius Venox were made consuls.
§9.20.2eo anno ab frequentibus Samnitium populis de foedere renovando legati cum senatum humi strati movissent, reiecti ad populum haudquaquam tam efficaces habebant preces.
In that year, when ambassadors from numerous states of the Samnites, seeking to renew the treaty, had moved the senate while prostrated on the ground, having been referred to the people, they had prayers that were by no means so effective.
§9.20.3itaque de foedere negatum; indutiae biennii, cum per aliquot dies fatigassent singulos precibus, impetratae.
Therefore, the treaty was refused; a truce of two years was obtained, after they had exhausted individual senators for several days with their prayers.
§9.20.4et ex Apulia Teanenses Canusinique populationibus fessi obsidibus L. Plautio consuli datis in deditionem venerunt.
And from Apulia, the Teanenses and Canusini, exhausted by devastations, came into surrender, having given hostages to the consul L. Plautius.
§9.20.5eodem anno primum praefecti Capuam creari coepti legibus ab L. Furio praetore datis, cum utrumque ipsi pro remedio aegris rebus discordia intestina petissent; §9.20.6et duae Romae additae tribus, Ufentina ac Falerna.
In the same year, prefects first began to be appointed for Capua according to laws given by the praetor L. Furius, since they themselves had requested both as a remedy for their affairs ruined by internal discord; and two tribes were added at Rome, the Ufentina and the Falerna.
§9.20.7inclinatis semel in Apulia rebus Teates quoque Apuli ad novos consules, C. Iunium Bubulcum, Q. Aemilium Barbulam, foedus petitum venerunt, pacis per omnem Apuliam praestandae populo Romano auctores.
When affairs in Apulia had once inclined, the Teates of Apulia also came to the new consuls, C. Iunius Bubulcus and Q. Aemilius Barbula, to seek a treaty, offering themselves as guarantors of maintaining peace for the Roman people throughout all Apulia.
§9.20.8id audacter spondendo impetravere, ut foedus daretur neque ut aequo tamen foedere, sed ut in dicione populi Romani essent.
By promising this boldly they succeeded in having a treaty granted, yet not on an equal footing, but on the condition that they should be under the sway of the Roman people.
Apulia perdomita — §9.20.9nam Forento quoque, valido oppido, Iunius potitus erat — in Lucanos perrectum; inde repentino adventu Aemili consulis Nerulum vi captum.
Apulia having been thoroughly subdued— for Iunius had also got possession of Forentum, a strong town—a march was made into the territory of the Lucanians; thence, by the sudden arrival of the consul Aemilius, Nerulum was taken by force.
§9.20.10et postquam res Capuae stabilitas Romana disciplina fama per socios vulgavit, Antiatibus quoque, qui se sine legibus certis, sine magistratibus agere querebantur, dati ab senatu ad iura statuenda ipsius coloniae patroni: nec arma modo sed iura etiam Romana late pollebant.
And after rumor spread through the allies that the affairs of Capua had been stabilized by Roman discipline, for the Antiatenses also, who complained that they lived without fixed laws and without magistrates, patrons of the colony itself were given by the senate to establish laws: and not only Roman arms, but also Roman laws, were widely powerful.