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), 39.44.2

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[2] Jewels and women's dresses and vehicles which were worth more than fifteen thousand asses he directed the assessors to list at ten times more than their actual value;¹ likewise slaves less than twenty years old, who had been bought since the previous lustrum for ten thousand asses or more, he directed to be assessed at ten times more than their actual cost, and he ordered that on all these articles a tax of three asses per thousand should be² imposed.³ All public water⁴ flowing into a private dwelling or lot they shut off; and what private persons had built or erected on public property they tore down on thirty days'

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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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))

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Ab urbe condita Perseus (Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.) — 39.44.2 focus

[2] ornamenta et vestem muliebrem et vehicula, quae pluris quam quindecim milium aeris essent, deciens tanto pltris quam quanti essent in censum referre iuratores iussi; item mancipia minora annis viginti,

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).) — 43.23.2 focus

[2] Cleuas cum praesidio impigrorum iuvenum insecutus sub radicibus prope inviis montium ¹ ad mille hominum ex agmine impedito occidit, ad ducentos cepit.

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn Perseus (Weissenborn, W.; Müller, H. J., editors. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1873-1883.) — 39.44.2 focus

[2] ornamenta et vestem muliebrem et vehicula, quae pluris quam quindecim milium aeris essent, deciens pluris¹ in censum referre iuratores iussi;

Translations (2)

History of Rome Perseus (Spillan, D.; Edmonds, Cyrus; McDevitte, William A., translators. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849-1868. (Bohn's Classical Library)) — 39.44.2 focus

[2] People were ordered to give account upon oath, of women's dress, and ornaments, and carriages exceeding in value fifteen thousand asses; ¹ and it was further ordered, that slaves, younger than twenty years, which, since the last survey, had been sold for ten thousand asses ² or more, should be estimated at ten times their value;

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.) — 39.44.2 focus

[2] Orders were issued that an account should be taken on oath of all female dress, ornaments and carriages which were valued at more than 15,000 ases, and that they should be assessed at ten times their value.

Notes on the current edition

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

1. The emendation (see the critical note) seems to be warranted by the appearance of the same words in sect. 3 below, with reference to other articles of luxury. Perhaps these measures are Cato's revenge for his defeat in the debate over the Oppian law (XXXIV. i. 3 —viii.).

2. B.C. 184

3. If the ordinary tax rate was one as per thousand (XXIV. xv. 9, etc.), this heavier tax on a much higher evaluation must have been, and was probably designed to be, almost confiscatory.

4. It may be accidental that the number of the verb here shifts to the plural. This particular act prevented the piping into private property of water from the aqueducts.

Titus Livius (Livy) Ab urbe condita 39.44.2

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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