Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor), 3.55.10

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[10] whereas the tribunes are sacrosanct in consequence of the ancient oath taken by the plebs, when they first created this magistracy. ¹

Ab urbe condita. Titus Livius (Livy). Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor). Medford, MA. .

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Current edition Perseus

History of Rome (English) (Foster, Benjamin Oliver; Moore, Frank Gardener; Sage, Evan T.; Schlesinger, Alfred C., translators. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1919-1959. (Loeb Classical Library))

Editions (3)

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.) — 3.55.10 focus

[10] tribunos vetere iure iurando plebis, cum primum earn eam potestatem creavit, sacrosanctos esse.

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Conway, Robert Seymour; Walters, Charles Flamstead; Johnson, Stephen Keymer, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1914-1935. (Oxford Classical Texts)) — 3.55.10 focus

[10] tribunos vetere ¹ iure iurando plebis, cum primum eam potestatem creavit, sacrosanctos esse.

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Livy in Fourteen Volumes. Foster, Benjamin Oliver; Moore, Frank Gardener; Schlesinger, Alfred C., editors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1919-1959 (printing).) — 3.55.10 focus

[10] tribunos vetere ¹ iure iurando plebis, cum primum eam potestatem creavit, sacrosanctos esse.

Translations (2)

History of Rome Perseus (Spillan, D.; Edmonds, Cyrus; McDevitte, William A., translators. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849-1868. (Bohn's Classical Library)) — 3.55.10 focus

[10] that the tribunes were sacred and inviolable by an ancient oath of the commons, when first they created that office.

History of Rome Perseus (Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.) — 3.55.10 focus

[10] it is a proof that an aedile is not held to be “sacrosanct” whereas the tribunes of the plebs were “sacrosanct” by the ancient oath taken by the plebeians when that office was first created.

Notes on the current edition

Ab Urbe Condita With An English Translation, books 1-10, 21-45, with periochae 11-20

1. The legal experts seem to have held that there was a distinction between the status of the tribunes and that of the aediles based on the belief that the former had been given sacrosanctitas at the time their office and that of the aediles was established, and that any violation of their persons automatically made the violator an outlaw ( sacer ); whereas it was necessary for an aedile to bring suit against the higher magistrate and convict him of the violation, before the man became sacer.

Titus Livius (Livy) Ab urbe condita 3.55.10

Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor)

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