[4] τὴν δὲ δίκην ἐπεψήφισεν ὁ δῆμος ἄλλοις τε ὑπαχθεὶς λόγοις καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα ὅτι μητρὸς ἦν ὁ Σιλούϊος ἐπικλήρου τῆς ἀρχῆς. Ἰούλῳ δὲ ἀντὶ τῆς βασιλείας ἱερά τις ἐξουσία προσετέθη καὶ τιμὴ τῷ τε ἀκινδύνῳ προὔχουσα τῆς μοναρχίας καὶ τῇ ῥαστώνῃ τοῦ βίου, ἣν ἔτι καὶ εἰς ἐμὲ τὸ ἐξ αὐτοῦ γένος ἐκαρποῦτο, Ἰούλιοι κληθέντες ἀπ᾽ ἐκείνου. ἐγένετο δὲ μέγιστος ἅμα καὶ λαμπρότατος οἴκων οὗτος, ὧν ἡμεῖς ἴσμεν, ἄνδρας τε διαφορωτάτους ἡγεμόνων ἤνεγκεν, οἷς τὸ εὐγενὲς αἱ ἀρεταὶ μὴ ἀπιστεῖσθαι παρέσχον: ὑπὲρ ὧν ἐν ἄλλῳ δηλωθήσεται λόγῳ τὰ προσήκοντα.
[4] the issue was decided by vote of the people, who were influenced chiefly by this consideration, among others, that Silvius’ mother was heiress to the kingdom. Upon Iulus was conferred, instead of the sovereignty, a certain sacred authority and honour preferable to the royal dignity both for security and ease of life, and this prerogative was enjoyed even to my day by his posterity, who were called Julii after him. This house became the greatest and at the same time the most illustrious of any we know of, and produced the most distinguished commanders, whose virtues were so many proofs of their nobility. But concerning them I shall say what is requisite in another place.
[1] Σιλουΐου δ᾽ ἑνὸς δέοντα τριάκοντα ἔτη κατασχόντος τὴν ἀρχὴν Αἰνείας υἱὸς αὐτοῦ διαδεξάμενος τὴν δυναστείαν ἑνὶ πλείω τριάκοντα ἐτῶν ἐβασίλευσεν. μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον ἓν καὶ πεντήκοντα Λατῖνος ἦρξεν ἔτη. Ἄλβας δὲ μετὰ τοῦτον ἑνὸς δέοντα τετταράκοντα [p. 114] ἔτη. μετὰ δὲ Ἄλβαν Κάπετος ἓξ ἐπὶ τοῖς εἴκοσιν. ἔπειτα Κάπυς δυεῖν δέοντα τριάκοντα. μετὰ δὲ Κάπυν Κάλπετος ἄχρι τρισκαίδεκα ἐτῶν κατέσχε τὴν ἀρχήν. ἑξῆς δὲ Τιβερῖνος ὀκταετῆ χρόνον ἐβασίλευσεν.
[71.1] Silvius, after holding the sovereignty twenty-nine years, was succeeded by Aeneas, his son, who reigned thirty-one years. After him, Latinus reigned fifty-one, then Alba, thirty-nine; after Alba, Capetus reigned twenty-six, then Capys twenty-eight, and after Capys, Capetus held the rule for thirteen years.
[2] τελευτῆσαι δ᾽ οὗτος ἐν μάχῃ παρὰ ποταμῷ γενομένῃ λέγεται: παρενεχθεὶς δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ ῥεύματος ἐπώνυμον ἑαυτῷ κατέλιπε τὸν ποταμὸν Ἄλβουλαν καλούμενον πρότερον. Τιβερίνου δὲ διάδοχος Ἀγρίππας ἓν καὶ τετταράκοντα ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη.
[2] Then Tiberinus reigned for a period of eight years. This king, it is said, was slain in a battle that was fought near a river, and being carried away by the stream, gave his name to the river, which had previously been called the Albula. Tiberinus’ successor, Agrippa, reigned forty-one years.
[3] μετὰ δὲ Ἀγρίππαν Ἀλλώδιος τυραννικόν τι χρῆμα καὶ θεοῖς ἀπεχθόμενον ἑνὸς δέοντα εἴκοσιν: ᾧ περιφρονοῦντι τὰ δαιμόνια κατεσκεύαστο κεραυνῶν τε μιμήματα καὶ κτύποι βρονταῖς ἐμφερεῖς, οἷς δεδίττεσθαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ὡς θεὸς ἠξίου. ὄμβρων δὲ καὶ κεραυνῶν εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ κατασκηψάντων τῆς τε λίμνης, παρ᾽ ἣν οἰκῶν ἐτύγχανε, πλημμύραν οὐκ εἰωθυῖαν λαβούσης κατακλυσθεὶς πανοίκιος ἀπόλλυται. καὶ νῦν ἔτι διαλαμπούσης τῆς λίμνης ἐν μέρει τινί, ὅταν ὑπονοστήσῃ τὸ νᾶμα καὶ σταθερὸς ὁ βυθὸς γένηται, παστάδων ἐρείπια καὶ ἄλλα οἰκήσεως ἴχνη φαίνεται.
[3] After Agrippa, Allocius, a tyrannical creature and odious to the gods, reigned nineteen years. Contemptuous of the divine powers, he had contrived imitations of lightning and sounds resembling thunder-claps, with which he proposed to terrify people as if he were a god. But rain and lightning descended upon his house, and the lake beside which it stood rose to an unusual height, so that he was overwhelmed and destroyed with his whole household. And even now when the lake is clear in a certain part, which happens whenever the flow of water subsides and the depths are undisturbed, the ruins of porticoes and other traces of a dwelling appear.
[4] Ἀουεντῖνος δὲ παρὰ τούτου τὴν δυναστείαν διαδεξάμενος, ἀφ᾽ οὗ τῶν ἑπτὰ λόφων τις ἐπώνυμος ἐγένετο τῶν συμπεπολισμένων τῇ Ῥώμῃ, τριάκοντα καὶ ἑπτὰ ἔτη τὴν ἀρχὴν κατέσχεν. πρόκας δὲ μετὰ τοῦτον ἔτη εἴκοσι [p. 115] καὶ τρία. ἔπειτα Ἀμόλιος οὐ σὺν δίκῃ τὴν βασιλείαν κατασχὼν Νεμέτορι προσήκουσαν, ὃς ἦν αὐτῷ πρεσβύτερος ἀδελφός, δύο καὶ τετταράκοντα ἔτη δυναστεύει.
[4] Aventinus, after whom was named one of the seven hills that are joined to make the city of Rome, succeeded him in the sovereignty and reigned thirty-seven years, and after him Proca twenty-three years. Then Amulius, having unjustly possessed himself of the kingdom which belonged to Numitor, his elder brother, reigned forty-two years.
[5] Ἀμολίου δὲ ἀναιρεθέντος ὑπὸ Ῥωμύλου καὶ Ῥώμου τῶν ἐκ τῆς ἱερᾶς κόρης γενομένων, ὡς αὐτίκα λεχθήσεται, μετὰ τὸν ἐκείνου θάνατον ἀπολαμβάνει τὴν κατὰ νόμον δυναστείαν Νεμέτωρ ὁ τῶν νεανίσκων μητροπάτωρ. τῷ δ᾽ ἑξῆς ἔτει τῆς Νεμέτορος ἀρχῆς, δευτέρῳ δὲ καὶ τριακοστῷ καὶ τετρακοσιοστῷ μετὰ τὴν Ἰλίου ἅλωσιν, ἀποικίαν στείλαντες Ἀλβανοὶ Ῥωμύλου καὶ Ῥώμου τὴν ἡγεμονίαν αὐτῆς ἐχόντων κτίζουσι Ῥώμην ἔτους ἐνεστῶτος πρώτου τῆς ἑβδόμης ὀλυμπιάδος, ἣν ἐνίκα στάδιον Δαϊκλῆς Μεσσήνιος, ἄρχοντος Ἀθήνησι Χάροπος ἔτος τῆς δεκαετίας πρῶτον.
[5] But when Amulius had been slain by Romulus and Remus, the sons of the holy maiden, as shall presently be related, Numitor, the maternal grandfather of the youths, after his brother’s death resumed the sovereignty which by law belonged to him. In the next year of Numitor’s reign, which was the four hundred and thirty-second after the taking of Troy, the Albans sent out a colony, under the leadership of Romulus and Remus, and founded Rome, in the beginning of the first year of the seventh Olympiad, when Daïcles of Messenê was victor in the foot race, and at Athens Charops was in the first year of his ten-year term as archon.
[1] ἀμφισβητήσεως δὲ πολλῆς οὔσης καὶ περὶ τοῦ χρόνου τῆς κτίσεως καὶ περὶ τῶν οἰκιστῶν τῆς πόλεως οὐδὲ αὐτὸς ᾤμην δεῖν ὥσπερ ὁμολογούμενα πρὸς ἁπάντων ἐξ ἐπιδρομῆς ἐπελθεῖν. Κεφάλων μὲν γὰρ ὁ Γεργίθιος συγγραφεὺς παλαιὸς πάνυ δευτέρᾳ γενεᾷ μετὰ τὸν Ἰλιακὸν πόλεμον ἐκτίσθαι λέγει τὴν πόλιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐξ Ἰλίου διασωθέντ�
�ν σὺν Αἰνείᾳ, οἰκιστὴν δὲ αὐτῆς ἀποφαίνει τὸν ἡγησάμενον τῆς ἀποικίας Ῥῶμον, τοῦτον δ᾽ εἶναι τῶν Αἰνείου παίδων ἕνα: τέτταρας δέ φησιν Αἰνείᾳ γενέσθαι παῖδας, Ἀσκάνιον, Εὐρυλέοντα, Ῥωμύλον, Ῥῶμον. εἴρηται [p. 116] δὲ καὶ Δημαγόρᾳ καὶ Ἀγαθύλλῳ καὶ ἄλλοις συχνοῖς ὅ τε χρόνος καὶ ὁ τῆς ἀποικίας ἡγεμὼν ὁ
[72.1] But as there is great dispute concerning both the time of the building of the city and the founders of it, I have thought it incumbent on me also not to give merely a cursory account of these things, as if they were universally agreed on. For Cephalon of Gergis, a very ancient writer, says that the city was built in the second generation after the Trojan war by those who had escaped from Troy with Aeneas, and he names as the founder of it Romus, who was the leader of the colony and one of Aeneas’ sons; he adds that Aeneas had four sons, Ascanius, Euryleon, Romulus and Remus. And Demagoras, Agathyllus and many others agree with him as regards both the time and the leader of the colony.
[2] αὐτός. ὁ δὲ τὰς ἱερείας τὰς ἐν Ἄργει καὶ τὰ καθ᾽ ἑκάστην πραχθέντα συναγαγὼν Αἰνείαν φησὶν ἐκ Μολοττῶν εἰς Ἰταλίαν ἐλθόντα μετ᾽ Ὀδυσσέα οἰκιστὴν γενέσθαι τῆς πόλεως, ὀνομάσαι δ᾽ αὐτὴν ἀπὸ μιᾶς τῶν Ἰλιάδων Ῥώμης. ταύτην δὲ λέγει ταῖς ἄλλαις Τρωάσι παρακελευσαμένην κοινῇ μετ᾽ αὐτῶν ἐμπρῆσαι τὰ σκάφη βαρυνομένην τῇ πλάνῃ. ὁμολογεῖ
[2] But the author of the history of the priestesses at Argos and of what happened in the days of each of them says that Aeneas came into Italy from the land of the Molossians with Odysseus and became the founder of the city, which he named after Romê, one of the Trojan women. He says that this woman, growing weary with wandering, stirred up the other Trojan women and together with them set fire to the ships. And Damastes of Sigeum and some others agree with him.
[3] δ᾽ αὐτῷ καὶ Δαμαστὴς ὁ Σιγεὺς καὶ ἄλλοι τινές. Ἀριστοτέλης δὲ ὁ φιλόσοφος Ἀχαιῶν τινας ἱστορεῖ τῶν ἀπὸ Τροίας ἀνακομισαμένων περιπλέοντας Μαλέαν, ἔπειτα χειμῶνι βιαίῳ καταληφθέντας τέως μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν πνευμάτων φερομένους πολλαχῇ τοῦ πελάγους πλανᾶσθαι, τελευτῶντας δ᾽ ἐλθεῖν εἰς τὸν τόπον τοῦτον τῆς Ὀπικῆς, ὃς καλεῖται Λατίνιον ἐπὶ τῷ
[3] But Aristotle, the philosopher, relates that some of the Achaeans, while they were doubling Cape Malea on their return from Troy, were overtaken by a violent storm, and being for some time driven out of their course by the winds, wandered over many parts of the sea, till at last they came to this place in the land of the Opicans which is called Latinium, lying on the Tyrrhenian sea.
[4] Τυρρηνικῷ πελάγει κείμενος. ἀσμένους δὲ τὴν γῆν ἰδόντας ἀνελκῦσαί τε τὰς ναῦς αὐτόθι καὶ διατρῖψαι τὴν χειμερινὴν ὥραν παρασκευαζομένους ἔαρος ἀρχομένου πλεῖν. ἐμπρησθεισῶν δὲ αὐτοῖς ὑπὸ νύκτα τῶν νεῶν οὐκ ἔχοντας ὅπως ποιήσονται τὴν ἄπαρσιν, ἀβουλήτῳ ἀνάγκῃ τοὺς βίους ἐν ᾧ κατήχθησαν χωρίῳ ἱδρύσασθαι. συμβῆναι δὲ αὐτοῖς τοῦτο διὰ γυναῖκας αἰχμαλώτους, ὰς ἔτυχον ἄγοντες ἐξ Ἰλίου. ταύτας δὲ κατακαῦσαι τὰ πλοῖα φοβουμένας τὴν οἴκαδε τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ἄπαρσιν, ὡς εἰς δουλείαν ἀφιξομένας.
[4] And being pleased with the sight of land, they hauled up their ships, stayed there the winter season, and were preparing to sail at the beginning of spring; but when their ships were set on fire in the night and they were unable to sail away, they were compelled against their will to fix their abode in the place where they had landed. This fate, he says, was brought upon them by the captive women they were carrying with them from Troy, who burned the ships, fearing that the Achaeans in returning home would carry them into slavery.
[5] Καλλίας δὲ ὁ τὰς Ἀγαθοκλέους πράξεις ἀναγράψας Ῥώμην [p. 117] τινὰ Τρωάδα τῶν ἀφικνουμένων ἅμα τοῖς ἄλλοις Τρωσὶν εἰς Ἰταλίαν γήμασθαι Λατίνῳ τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Ἀβοριγίνων καὶ γεννῆσαι τρεῖς παῖδας, Ῥῶμον καὶ Ῥωμύλον καὶ Τηλέγονον ... οἰκίσαντας δὲ πόλιν, ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῇ θέσθαι τοὔνομα. Ξεναγόρας δὲ ὁ συγγραφεὺς Ὀδυσσέως καὶ Κίρκης υἱοὺς γενέσθαι τρεῖς, Ῥῶμον, Ἀντείαν, Ἀρδείαν: οἰκίσαντας δὲ τρεῖς πόλεις ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτῶν θέσθαι τοῖς κτίσμασι τὰς ὀνομασίας.
[5] Callias, who wrote of the deeds of Agathocles, says that Romê, one of the Trojan women who came into Italy with the other Trojans, married Latinus, the king of the Aborigines, by whom she had three son, Romus, Romulus and Telegonus, . . . and having built a city, gave it the name of their mother. Xenagoras, the historian, writes that Odysseus and Circê had three sons, Romus, Anteias and Ardeias, who built three cities and called them after their own names.
[6] Διονύσιος δὲ ὁ Χαλκιδεὺς οἰκιστὴν μὲν ἀποφαίνει τῆς πόλεως Ῥῶμον: τοῦτον δὲ λέγει κατὰ μέν τινας Ἀσκανίου, κατὰ δέ τινας Ἠμαθίωνος εἶναι παῖδα. εἰσὶ δέ τινες οἳ τὴν Ῥώμην ἐκτίσθαι λέγουσιν ὑπὸ Ῥώμου τοῦ Ἰταλοῦ, μητρὸς δὲ Λευκαρίας τῆς Λατίνου θυγατρός.
[6] Dionysius of Chalcis names Romus as the founder of the city, but says that according to some this man was the son of Ascanius, and according to others the son of Emathion. There are others who declare that Rome was built by Romus, the son of Italus and Leucaria, the daughter of Latinus.
[1] ἔχων δὲ πολλοὺς καὶ ἄλλους τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν παρέχεσθαι συγγραφέων, οἳ διαφόρους ἀποφαίνουσι τοὺς οἰκιστὰς τῆς πόλεως, ἵνα μὴ δόξω μακρηγορεῖν ἐπὶ τοὺς Ῥωμαίων ἐλεύσομαι συγγραφεῖς. παλαιὸς μὲν οὖν οὔτε συγγραφεὺς οὔτε λογογράφος ἐστὶ Ῥωμαίων οὐδὲ εἷς: ἐκ παλαιῶν μέντοι λόγων ἐν ἱεραῖς δέλτοις σωζομένων ἕκαστός τι παραλαβὼν ἀνέγραψεν.
[73.1] I could cite many other Greek historians who assign different founders to the city, but, not to appear prolix, I shall come to the Roman historians. The Romans, to be sure, have not so much as one single historian or chronicler who is ancient; however, each of their historians has taken something out of ancient accounts that are preserved on sacred tablets.
[2] τούτων δέ τινες μὲν Αἰνείου γενέσθαι υἱοὺς λέγουσι Ῥωμύλον τε καὶ Ῥῶμον τοὺς οἰκιστὰς τῆς Ῥώμης, ἕτεροι δὲ θυγατρὸς Αἰνείου παῖδας, ὅτου δὲ πατρὸς οὐκέτι διορίζοντες: δοθῆναι δ᾽ [p. 118] αὐτοὺς ὑπ᾽ Αἰνείου Λατίνῳ τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Ἀβοριγίνων ὁμηρεύσοντας, ὅτε καὶ αἱ πίστεις τοῖς ἐπιχωρίοις πρὸς τοὺς ἐπήλ�
�δας ἐγένοντο. ἀσπαζόμενον δὲ αὐτοὺς Λατῖνον τῇ τε ἄλλῃ θεραπείᾳ περιέπειν εὖ καὶ ἐκγόνου ἄρρενος ἄπαιδα τελευτῶντα διαδόχους μέρους τινὸς τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ἀρχῆς καταλιπεῖν.
[2] Some of these say that Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were the sons of Aeneas, others say that they were the sons of a daughter of Aeneas, without going on to determine who was their father; that they were delivered as hostages by Aeneas to Latinus, the king of the Aborigines, when the treaty was made between the inhabitants and the new-comers, and that Latinus, after giving them a kindly welcome, not only did them might good offices, but, upon dying without male issue, left them his successors to some part of his kingdom.
[3] ἄλλοι δὲ λέγουσιν Αἰνείου τελευτήσαντος Ἀσκάνιον ἅπασαν τὴν Λατίνων ἀρχὴν παραλαβόντα νείμασθαι πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς Ῥωμύλον τε καὶ Ῥῶμον τήν τε χώραν καὶ τὴν δύναμιν τὴν Λατίνων τριχῇ: αὐτὸν μὲν δὴ τήν τε Ἄλβαν κτίσαι καὶ ἄλλ᾽ ἄττα πολίσματα: Ῥῶμον δὲ Καπύην μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ προπάππου Κάπυος, Ἀγχίσην δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ προπάτορος Ἀγχίσου, Αἰνείαν δὲ τὴν ὕστερον κληθεῖσαν Ἰάνικλον ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρός, Ῥώμην δὲ ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ, ταύτην δὲ χρόνους τινὰς ἐρημωθεῖσαν ἑτέρας αὖθις ἐλθούσης ἀποικίας, ἣν Ἀλβανοὶ ἔστειλαν ἡγουμένου Ῥωμύλου καὶ Ῥώμου, τὴν ἀρχαίαν κτίσιν ἀπολαβεῖν: ὥστε διττὰς εἶναι τῆς Ῥώμης τὰς κτίσεις: τὴν μὲν ὀλίγον ὕστερον τῶν Τρωικῶν γενομένην, τὴν δὲ πεντεκαίδεκα γενεαῖς ὑστεροῦσαν τῆς προτέρας.
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