§10Litium series ubique maiorem in modum excreuerant, manentibus antiquis intercapedine iuris dictionis, accedentibus nouis ex condicione tumultuque temporum;
The number of lawsuits had everywhere grown enormously, since ancient ones remained because of the suspension of judicial activities, and new ones were added from the conditions and turmoil of the times.
sorte elegit per quos rapta bello restituerentur quique iudicia centumuiralia, quibus peragendis uix suffectura litigatorum uidebatur aetas, extra ordinem diiudicarent redigerentque ad breuissimum numerum.
He chose by lot those through whom properties plundered in war should be restored, and who should, outside the ordinary course, decide and reduce to a minimum number the lawsuits of the centumviral court, to complete which the lifetime of the litigants seemed scarcely sufficient.
§11Libido atque luxuria coercente nullo inualuerat; auctor senatui fuit decernendi, ut quae se alieno seruo iunxisset, ancilla haberetur; neue filiorum familiarum faeneratoribus exigendi crediti ius umquam esset, hoc est ne post patrum quidem mortem.
Licentiousness and luxury had grown strong, with no one restraining them; he was the adviser to the senate for decreeing that any woman who had connected herself with another's slave should be regarded as a female slave, and that moneylenders should never have the right to demand credit from sons of families, that is, not even after the death of their fathers.
Ceteris in rebus statim ab initio principatus usque §12ad exitum ciuilis et clemens, mediocritatem pristinam neque dissimulauit umquam ac frequenter etiam prae se tulit.
In other matters, from the very beginning of his principate even to its end, he was civil and mild; he never concealed his former lowliness and even frequently displayed it.
quin et conantis quosdam originem Flauii generis ad conditores Reatinos comitemque Herculis, cuius monimentum extat Salaria uia, referre irrisit ultro.
Moreover, he even mocked those who attempted to trace the origin of the Flavian family back to the founders of Reate and a companion of Hercules, whose monument still stands on the Salarian Way.
adeoque nihil ornamentorum extrinsecus cupide appetiuit, ut triumphi die fatigatus tarditate et taedio pompae non reticuerit, merito se plecti, qui triumphum, quasi aut debitum maioribus suis aut speratum umquam sibi, tam inepte senex concupisset.
And he so little desired outward honors that on the day of his triumph, worn out by the slowness and tediousness of the procession, he did not keep silent that he was deservedly punished, since as an old man he had so foolishly coveted a triumph, as if it were either owed to his ancestors or ever hoped for by himself.
ac ne tribuniciam quidem potestatem patris patriae appellationem nisi sero recepit.
He did not receive even the tribunician power and the title of Father of the Country until late.
nam consuetudinem scrutandi salutantes manente adhuc bello ciuili omiserat.
For he had already abandoned the custom of searching those who saluted him while the civil war was still going on.
§13Amicorum libertatem, causidicorum figuras ac philosophorum contumaciam lenissime tulit.
He bore most gently the freedom of his friends, the figures of speech of advocates, and the obstinacy of philosophers.
Licinium Mucianum notae impudicitiae, sed meritorum fiducia minus sui reuerentem, numquam nisi clam et hactenus retaxare sustinuit, ut apud communem aliquem amicum querens adderet clausulam: 'ego tamen uir sum. ' Saluium Liberalem in defensione diuitis rei ausum dicere: 'quid ad Caesarem, si Hipparchus sestertium milies habet?' et ipse laudauit.
He never endured to rebuke Licinius Mucianus—a man of notorious licentiousness but, confident in his merits, less respectful of him—except in private, and only so far as to add, when complaining to a common friend: "Yet I am a man." When Salvius Liberalis, in defending a wealthy client, dared to say: "What is it to Caesar if Hipparchus has a hundred million sesterces?" he even praised him.
Demetrium Cynicum in itinere obuium sibi post damnationem ac neque assurgere neque salutare se dignantem, oblatrantem etiam nescio quid, satis habuit canem appellare.
When Demetrius the Cynic met him on the road after his banishment and deigned neither to rise nor to salute him, but even barked out something or other, he deemed it enough to call him a dog.
§14Offensarum inimicitiarumque minime memor executorue Vitelli hostis sui filiam splendidissime maritauit, dotauit etiam et instruxit.
Least mindful of offenses and enmities, and never executing them, he married off the daughter of his enemy Vitellius most splendidly, and even endowed and equipped her.
trepidum eum interdicta aula sub Nerone quaerentemque, quidnam ageret aut quo abiret, quidam ex officio admissionis simul expellens abire Morbouiam iusserat.
When, under Nero, he was anxious after being excluded from the court and was asking what he should do or where he should go, a certain usher, while driving him away, had ordered him to go to Morbovia.
in hunc postea deprecantem non ultra uerba excanduit, et quidem totidem fere atque eadem.
When this man later begged for pardon, he did not flare up beyond words, and indeed almost as many and the same.
nam ut suspicione aliqua uel metu ad perniciem cuiusquam compelleretur tantum afuit, ut monentibus amicis cauendum esse Mettium Pompusianum, quod uolgo crederetur genesim habere imperatoriam, insuper consulem fecerit, spondens quandoque beneficii memorem futurum.
For he was so far from being driven to the ruin of anyone by some suspicion or fear, that when his friends warned him that he should beware of Mettius Pompusianus because it was commonly believed that he had an imperial horoscope, he even made him consul, promising that he would one day be mindful of the benefit.
§15Non temere quis punitus insons reperietur nisi absente eo et ignaro aut certe inuito atque decepto.
Not easily will anyone be found to have been punished while innocent, except in his absence and without his knowledge, or at least against his will and by deception.
Heluidio Prisco, qui et reuersum se ex Syria solus priuato nomine Vespasianum salutauerat et in praetura omnibus edictis sine honore ac mentione ulla transmiserat, non ante succensuit quam altercationibus insolentissimis paene in ordinem redactus.
He did not become angry with Helvidius Priscus—who had both alone saluted him by his private name Vespasian upon his return from Syria, and during his praetorship had passed over him in all edicts without any honor or mention—until he was almost reduced to the ranks by most insolent altercations.
hunc quoque, quamuis relegatum primo, deinde et interfici iussum, magni aestimauit seruare quoquo modo, missis qui percussores reuocarent; et seruasset, nisi iam perisse falso renuntiatum esset.
Even this man, although at first banished and then ordered to be killed, he highly valued to save in some way, sending those who should recall the executioners; and he would have saved him, if it had not been falsely reported that he had already perished.
ceterum neque caede cuiusquam umquam iustis suppliciis inlacrimauit etiam et ingemuit.
Moreover, he even wept and groaned over the death of anyone, even in the case of lawful executions.