[6] προσέταξεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἑτέρων ἐξιέναι μερῶν. ὥστε ἠναγκάσθησαν οἱ Αἰκανοὶ τροφῆς τε ἀπορούμενοι καὶ συμμάχων βοήθειαν ἀπεγνωκότες πολιορκούμενοί τε πολλαχόθεν ἱκετηρίας ἀναλαβόντες ἐπιπρεσβεύεσθαι πρὸς τὸν Κοίντιον περὶ φιλίας διαλεγόμενοι. ὁ δὲ τοῖς μὲν ἄλλοις Αἰκανοῖς ἔφη σπένδεσθαι καὶ διδόναι [p. 47] τοῖς σώμασι τὴν ἄδειαν τά τε ὅπλα ἀποθεμένοις καὶ καθ᾽ ἕνα διεξιοῦσιν ὑπὸ ζυγόν, Γράγχῳ δὲ τῷ ἡγεμόνι τῶν πολεμίων καὶ τοῖς σὺν ἐκείνῳ βουλεύσασι τὴν ἀπόστασιν ὡς πολεμίοις χρήσασθαι, ἐκέλευσέ τε αὐτοῖς ἄγειν τοὺς ἄνδρας δεδεμένους.
[6] Consequently the Aequians, lacking provisions, despairing of aid from any allies, and besieged on many sides, were compelled to send envoys to Quintius with the tokens of suppliants to treat for peace. Quintius said he was ready to make peace with the rest of the Aequians and grant them immunity for their persons if they would lay down their arms and pass under the yoke one at a time; but as for Gracchus, their commander, and those who had planned the revolt with him, he would treat them as enemies, and he ordered them to bring these men to him in chains.
[7] ὑπομενόντων δὲ ταῦτα τῶν Αἰκανῶν τελευταῖον αὐτοῖς ἐκεῖνο προσέταξεν: ἐπειδὴ Τύσκλον πόλιν Ῥωμαίων σύμμαχον ἐξηνδραποδίσαντο καὶ διήρπασαν οὐδὲν ὑπὸ Τυσκλάνων παθόντες κακόν, ἀντιπαρασχεῖν ἑαυτῷ πόλιν τῶν σφετέρων, Κορβιῶνα, τὰ ὅμοια διαθεῖναι.
[7] When the Aequians consented to do so, the last demand he made of them was this — that, inasmuch as they had enslaved the inhabitants of Tusculum, a city in alliance with the Romans, and plundered it, though they had received no injury from the Tusculans, they should in turn put at his disposal one of their own cities, Corbio, to be treated in like manner.
[8] ταύτας λαβόντες τὰς ἀποκρίσεις οἱ πρέσβεις τῶν Αἰκανῶν προῄεσαν καὶ μετ᾽ οὐ πολὺ παρῆσαν ἄγοντες τὸν Γράγχον καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ δεδεμένους: αὐτοὶ δὲ τὰ ὅπλα θέντες ἐξέλιπον τὴν παρεμβολὴν διαπορευόμενοι, καθάπερ ὁ στρατηγὸς ἐκέλευσε, διὰ τοῦ Ῥωμαίων χάρακος καθ᾽ ἕνα ὑπὸ ζυγόν, καὶ τὴν Κορβιῶνα κατὰ τὰς ὁμολογίας παρέδοσαν, τὰ ἐλεύθερα σώματα μόνον ἐξελθεῖν αἰτησάμενοι, περὶ ὧν διήλλαξαν τοὺς Τυσκλάνων αἰχμαλώτους.
[8] The envoys, having received this answer, disappeared, and not long afterward returned, bringing with them in chains Gracchus and his associate. They themselves, laying down their arms, left their camp and, pursuant to the general’s orders, marched through the Roman camp one by one under the yoke; and they delivered up Corbio according to their agreement, merely asking that the inhabitants of free condition might leave the city, in exchange for whom they released the Tusculan captives.
[1] παραλαβὼν δὲ ὁ Κοίντιος τὴν πόλιν τὰ μὲν ἐπιφανέστατα τῶν λαφύρων εἰς Ῥώμην ἐκέλευσε φέρειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα πάντα διελέσθαι κατὰ λόχους ἐπέτρεψε τοῖς τε σὺν αὐτῷ παραγενομένοις στρατιώταις καὶ τοῖς ἅμα Κοιντίῳ τῷ ταμίᾳ προαποσταλεῖσι. τοῖς δὲ μετὰ Μηνυκίου τοῦ ὑπάτου κατακλεισθεῖσιν [p. 48] ἐν τῷ χάρακι μεγάλην ἔφη δεδωκέναι δωρεὰν τὰ σώματα αὐτῶν ἐκ θανάτου ῥυσάμενος.
[25.1] Quintius, having taken possession of Corbio, ordered choicest of the spoils to be carried to Rome and permitted all the rest to be distributed by centuries both to the troops that had been with him and to those that had been sent ahead with Quintius the quaestor. As for the forces which had been shut up in their camp with Minucius the consul, he said that he had already bestowed a great gift upon them in delivering them from death.
[2] ταῦτα πράξας καὶ τὸν Μηνύκιον ἀποθέσθαι τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀναγκάσας ἀνέστρεψεν εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην καὶ κατήγαγε λαμπρότατον ἁπάντων ἡγεμόνων θρίαμβον, ἐν ἡμέραις ἑκκαίδεκα ταῖς πάσαις, ἀφ᾽ ἧς παρέλαβε τὴν ἀρχήν, στρατόπεδόν τε σώσας φίλιον καὶ πολεμίων δύναμιν ἀκμάζουσαν καθελὼν πόλιν τε αὐτῶν πορθήσας καὶ φρουρὰν αὐτῆς ὑπολιπὼν τόν τε ἡγεμόνα τοῦ πολέμου καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἐπιφανεῖς ἄνδρας ἁλύσει δεδεμένους ἀγαγών.
[2] After doing these things and forcing Minucius to resign his magistracy, he returned to Rome and celebrated a triumph more brilliant than that of any other general, having in the space of sixteen days in all from that on which he had received the magistracy saved an army of his fellow citizens, defeated a first-rate force of the enemy, plundered one of their cities and left a garrison in it, and brought back the leader of the war and the other prominent men bound in chains.
[3] καὶ ὃ μάλιστα πάντων αὐτοῦ θαυμάζειν ἄξιον, ὅτι τὴν τοσαύτην ἀρχὴν εἰς ἑξάμηνον εἰληφὼς οὐκ ἐχρήσατο παντὶ τῷ νόμῳ, ἀλλὰ συναγαγὼν τὸν δῆμον εἰς ἐκκλησίαν καὶ περὶ τῶν πεπραγμένων λόγον ἀποδοὺς ἐξωμόσατο τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς τε βουλῆς δεομένης γῆν τε ὅσην ἐβούλετο λαβεῖν ἐκ τῆς δορικτήτου καὶ ἀνδράποδα καὶ χρήματα ἐκ τῶν λαφύρων ἐπανορθῶσαι τὴν πενίαν πλούτῳ δικαίῳ, ὃν ἀπὸ πολεμίων κάλλιστον ἐκτήσατο τοῖς ἰδίοις πόνοις, οὐκ ἠξίωσε, φίλων τε καὶ συγγενῶν δωρεὰς προσφερόντων μεγάλας καὶ ἀντὶ παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ τιθεμένων ἐκεῖνον τὸν ἄνδρα εὖ ποιεῖν, ἐπαινέσας αὐτοὺς τῆς προθυμίας οὐθὲν τῶν διδομένων ἔλαβεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπῆλθε πάλιν εἰς τὸ μικρὸν ἐκεῖνο χωρίον, καὶ τὸν αὐτουργὸν αὐτοῦ ἀντὶ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ μετειλήφει βίον, μεῖζον φρονῶν ἐπὶ πενίᾳ
[3] But — what most of all was worthy of admiration about him — though he had received so great power for six months, he did not take full advantage of the law, but having called the people together in assembly and given them an account of his achievements, he abdicated his magistracy. And when the senate wanted him to accept as much of the conquered land as he wished, together with slaves and money out of the spoils, and to relieve his poverty with deserved riches which he had acquired most honourably from the enemy by his own toils, he refused to do so. Also when his friends and relations offered him magnificent gifts and placed their greatest happiness in assisting such a man, he thanked them for their zeal, but would accept none of their presents. Instead, he retired again to that small farm of his and resumed his life of a farmer working his own land in preference to the life of a king, glorying more in his poverty than others in their riches.
[4] ἢ ἄλλοι ἐπὶ πλούτῳ. μετ᾽ οὐ πολὺν δὲ χρόνον καὶ Ναύτιος, ἅτερ
ος τῶν ὑπάτων, νικήσας Σαβίνους ἐκ [p. 49] παρατάξεως καὶ τῆς χώρας αὐτῶν πολλὴν καταδραμὼν ἀπῆγεν ἐπ᾽ οἴκου τὰς δυνάμεις.
[4] Not long afterwards Nautius also, the other consul, returned to Rome with his forces, after defeating the Sabines in a pitched battle and overrunning a large part of their country.
[1] μετὰ δὲ τούτους ὀλυμπιὰς μὲν ἦν ὀγδοηκοστὴ καὶ πρώτη, ἣν ἐνίκα στάδιον Πολύμναστος Κυρηναῖος, Ἀθήνησι δὲ ἄρχων Καλλίας, ἐφ᾽ οὗ τὴν ὕπατον ἀρχὴν ἐν Ῥώμῃ παρέλαβε Γάιος Ὁράτιος καὶ Κόιντος Μηνύκιος. ἐπὶ τούτων Σαβῖνοι πάλιν στρατεύσαντες ἐπὶ Ῥωμαίους πολλὴν τῆς χώρας αὐτῶν ἐδῄωσαν, καὶ ἧκον οἱ φυγόντες ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν ἀθρόοι κρατεῖσθαι πάντα ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν τὰ μεταξὺ Κρουστομερείας τε καὶ Φιδήνης λέγοντες.
[26.1] After these consuls came the eighty-first Olympiad (the one at which Polymnastus of Cyrenê won the foot-race), the archon at Athens being Callias, in whose term of office Gaius Horatius and Quintus Minucius succeeded to the consulship at Rome. During their term of office the Sabines made another expedition against the Romans and laid waste much of their territory; and the country people who had fled from their fields arrived in great numbers, reporting that all the country between Crustumerium and Fidenae was in possession of the enemy.
[2] Αἰκανοί τε οἱ νεωστὶ καταπολεμηθέντες ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις αὖθις ἦσαν: καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀκμαιότατοι αὐτῶν νυκτὸς ἐλάσαντες ἐπὶ Κορβιῶνα πόλιν, ἣν τῷ παρελθόντι ἐνιαυτῷ Ῥωμαίοις παρέδοσαν, τήν τε φρουρὰν τὴν ἐν αὐτῇ κοιμωμένην εὑρόντες κατέσφαξαν πλὴν ὀλίγων, οἳ ἔτυχον ἀφυστεροῦντες, οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ μεγάλῃ χειρὶ στρατεύσαντες ἐπὶ πόλιν Ὀρτῶνα τοῦ Λατίνων ἔθνους ἐξ ἐφόδου καταλαμβάνονται, καὶ ὅσα Ῥωμαίους οὐχ οἷοί τε ἦσαν ἐργάσασθαι, ταῦτα δι᾽ ὀργὴν τοὺς συμμάχους αὐτῶν διέθεσαν.
[2] The Aequians also, who had been recently conquered, were once more in arms. The flower of their army, marching by night to the city of Corbio, which they had handed over to the Romans the year before, and finding the garrison there asleep, put all to the sword except a few who chanced to be late to bed. The rest of the Aequians marched in great force to Ortona, a city of the Latin nation, and took it by storm; and the injuries they were unable to inflict on the Romans they inflicted in their resentment on the Romans’ allies.
[3] τοὺς μὲν γὰρ ἐν ἥβῃ πάντας, πλὴν εἴ τινες διέφυγον εὐθὺς ἁλισκομένης τῆς πόλεως, ἀπέκτειναν, γυναῖκας δὲ καὶ παῖδας αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ γηραιὰ τῶν σωμάτων ἠνδραποδίσαντο, καὶ τῶν χρημάτων ὅσα δύναμις ἦν αὐτοῖς φέρειν συσκευασάμενοι κατὰ σπουδήν, [p. 50] πρὶν ἅπαντας ἐπιβοηθῆσαι Λατίνους, ἀνέστρεψαν.
[3] For they put to death all the men who were in the prime of life except those who had escaped at once while the city was being taken, and enslaved their wives and children together with the aged; then, hastily gathering together all the possessions they could carry off, they returned home before all the Latins could come to the rescue.
[4] τούτων δὲ ἅμα προσαγγελλομένων ὑπό τε Λατίνων καὶ τῶν ἐκ τῆς φρουρᾶς διασωθέντων ἡ μὲν βουλὴ στρατιὰν ἐκπέμπειν ἐψηφίσατο καὶ τοὺς ὑπάτους ἀμφοτέρους πορεύεσθαι: οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Οὐεργίνιον δήμαρχοι πέμπτον ἔτος ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς ὄντες ἐξουσίας ἐκώλυον, ὥσπερ καὶ ἐν τοῖς πρότερον ἐποίουν ἔτεσιν, ἐνιστάμενοι ταῖς στρατολογίαις τῶν ὑπάτων, τὸν ἐντὸς τείχους πρῶτον ἀξιοῦντες καταλυθῆναι πόλεμον ἀποδοθείσης τῷ δήμῳ τῆς περὶ τοῦ νόμου διαγνώσεως, ὃν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἰσηγορίας εἰσέφερον, ὅ τε δῆμος αὐτοῖς συνελάμβανε πολλοὺς κατὰ τῆς βουλῆς καὶ ἐπιφθόνους διεξιοῦσι λόγους.
[4] As news of these disasters was brought simultaneously both by the Latins and by those of the garrison who had escaped, the senate voted to send out an army and that both consuls should take the field. But Verginius and his fellow tribunes, who held the same power for the fifth year, sought to prevent this, as they had also done in the preceding years, opposing the levies announced by the consuls and demanding that the war inside the walls should first be terminated by allowing the populace to decide about the law which the tribunes were trying to introduce regarding an equality of rights; and the populace joined with them in uttering many invidious charges against the senate.
[5] ἑλκομένου δὲ τοῦ χρόνου καὶ οὔτε τῶν ὑπάτων ὑπομενόντων προβουλεῦσαί τε καὶ εἰς τὸν δῆμον ἐξενεγκεῖν τὸν νόμον, οὔτε τῶν δημάρχων συγχωρῆσαι βουλομένων τὴν καταγραφὴν καὶ τὴν ἔξοδον τῆς στρατιᾶς γενέσθαι, λόγων τε πολλῶν καὶ κατηγοριῶν, ἃς ἐποιοῦντο κατ᾽ ἀλλήλων ἔν τε ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς βουλῆς μάτην ἀναλισκομένων, ἑτέρα τις εἰσαχθεῖσα ὑπὸ τῶν δημάρχων ἐπὶ τῇ βουλῇ πολιτεία καὶ παρακρουσαμένη τὸ συνέδριον, τὴν μὲν τότε κατέχουσαν στάσιν ἐπράυνεν, ἑτέρων δὲ πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων ἐγένετο πλεονεκτημάτων αἰτία τῷ δήμῳ. διηγήσομαι δὲ καὶ ταύτην τὴν δυναστείαν ὃν τρόπον ὁ δῆμος ἔλαβε.
[5] But as the time dragged on and neither the consuls would consent to a preliminary vote by the senate or to the laying of the law before the populace, nor the tribunes to allow the levies to be made and the army to take the field, and many speeches were made and charges hurled back and forth both in the meetings of the assembly and in the senate, all in vain, another measure that was introduced against the senate and misled its members did indeed appease the dissension then raging, but proved the source of many other great gains to the populace. I shall now give an account of the manner in which the populace secured this power.
[1] φθειρομένης καὶ διαρπαζομένης τῆς τε Ῥωμαίων καὶ τῶν συμμάχων γῆς, καὶ τῶν πολεμίων ὡς δι᾽ ἐρημίας ἐλαυνόντων κατ᾽ ἐλπίδα τοῦ μηδεμίαν [p. 51] ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἐξελεύσεσθαι δύναμιν διὰ τὴν κατέχουσαν ἐν τῇ πόλει στάσιν, οἱ μὲν ὕπατοι τὴν βουλὴν συνήγαγον, ὡς περὶ τῶν ὅλων ἔσχατον τοῦτο βουλευσόμενοι.
[27.1] While the territory of both the Romans and their allies was being laid waste and plundered and the enemy marched through it as through a solitude, in the confidence that no army would come out against them by reason of the dissension then raging in the city, the consuls assembled the senate with the intention of deliberating finally this time about the whole situation.
[2] ῥηθέντων δὲ πολλῶν λόγων π
ρῶτος ἐρωτηθεὶς γνώμην Λεύκιος Κοίντιος, ὁ τῷ παρελθόντι γενόμενος ἔτει δικτάτωρ, ἀνὴρ οὐ μόνον τὰ πολέμια δεινότατος τῶν καθ᾽ ἑαυτόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ πολιτικὰ δοκῶν εἶναι φρονιμώτατος, γνώμην ἀπεφήνατο τήνδε: μάλιστα μὲν πείθειν τούς τε δημάρχους καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους πολίτας τὴν μὲν ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου διάγνωσιν οὐθὲν ἐν τῷ παρόντι κατεπείγουσαν εἰς ἑτέρους ἀναβαλέσθαι καιροὺς ἐπιτηδειοτέρους, τὸν δ᾽ ἐν χερσὶν ὄντα καὶ ὅσον οὔπω τῇ πόλει πλησιάζοντα πόλεμον ἄρασθαι πάσῃ προθυμίᾳ, καὶ μὴ περιιδεῖν τὴν μετὰ πολλῶν κτηθεῖσαν ἡγεμονίαν πόνων αἰσχρῶς καὶ ἀνάνδρως ἀπολομένην.
[2] After many speeches had been made, the person who was first asked his opinion was Lucius Quintius, who had been dictator the year before, a man who had the reputation of being not only the ablest general but also the wisest statesman of his time. The opinion he expressed was as follows: That they should preferably persuade both the tribunes and the rest of the citizens to postpone to more suitable times their decision regarding the law, which was not at all pressing at the moment, and to undertake with all alacrity the war that was at hand and all but at their gates, and not to allow their empire, which they had acquired with many toils, to be lost in a shameful and pusillanimous fashion.
[3] ἐὰν δὲ μὴ πείθηται ὁ δῆμος, τοὺς πατρικίους ἅμα τοῖς πελάταις καθοπλισαμένους τῶν τ᾽ ἄλλων πολιτῶν παραλαβόντας, οἷς ἦν ἑκοῦσι συνάρασθαι τοῦ καλλίστου ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος ἀγῶνος, χωρεῖν προθύμως ἐπὶ τὸν πόλεμον θεούς, ὅσοι φυλάττουσι τὴν Ῥωμαίων πόλιν, ἡγεμόνας τῆς ἐξόδου ποιησαμένους.
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