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), 35.9

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[1] Censors had been elected the previous year, Sextus Aelius Paetus and Gaius Cornelius Cethegus.¹ Cornelius closed the lustrum.²

[2] The number of citizens rated was one hundred forty-three thousand seven hundred four.³ There were great floods that year, and the Tiber overflowed the flat parts of the City; around the Porta Flumentana certain buildings even collapsed and fell.

[3] Also, the Porta Caelimontana was smitten by a thunderbolt and the wall in several places round about was struck by lightning;

[4] and at Aricia, at Lanuvium and on the Aventine⁴ there were showers of stones; it was also reported from Capua that a great swarm of wasps had flown into the forum and settled in the temple of Mars; the wasps, it was said, were carefully collected and consumed by fire.

[5] By reason of these prodigies the decemvirs were directed to consult the Books,⁵ and a nine-day sacrifice was performed, a supplication proclaimed, and the City purified.

[6] At the same time a shrine to Victoria Virgo near the temple of Victory was dedicated by Marcus Porcius Cato, two years after he had vowed it.⁶

[7] In the same year a Latin colony was established at Castrum Frentinum⁷ by the triumvirs Aulus Manlius Volso, Lucius Apustius Fullo and Quintus Aelius Tubero; by the law of the last-named the colony was created. Three thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry joined it, a small number in proportion to the size of the tract. The allotments of land could have been thirty iugera per infantryman and sixty per cavalryman.

[8] At the suggestion of Apustius one-third of the land was reserved, whereby they were enabled later to enroll new colonists if they saw fit. Twenty iugera were given to each infantryman, forty to each cavalryman.

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.) — 35.9 focus

[1] censores erant priore anno creati Sex. Aelius Paetus et C. Cornelius Cethegus.

[2] Cornelius lustrum condidit. censa sunt civium capita CXLIII DCCIV. aquae ingentes eo anno fuerunt, et Tiberis loca plana urbis inundavit;

[3] circa portam Flumentanam etiam collapsa quaedam ruinis sunt. et porta Coelimontana fulmine icta est, murusque circa multis locis de caelo tactus;

[4] et Ariciae et Lanuvii et in Aventino lapidibus pluvit; et a Capua nuntiatum est examen vesparum ingens in forum advolasse et in Martis aede consedisse; eas collectas cum cura et igni crematas esse.

[5] horum prodigiorum causa decemviri libros adire iussi, et novemdiale sacrum factum, et supplicatio indicta est atque urbs lustrata.

[6] iisdem diebus aediculam Victoriae Virginis prope aedem Victoriae M. Porcius Cato dedicavit biennio post, quam vovit.

[7] eodem anno coloniam Latinam in castrum Frentinum triumviri deduxerunt A. Manlius Volso L. Apustius Fullo Q. Aelius Tubero, cuius lege deducebatur. tria milia peditum iere, trecenti equites, numerus exiguus pro copia agri.

[8] dari potuere tricena iugera in pedites, sexagena in equites. Apustio auctore tertia pars agri dempta est, quo postea, si vellent, novos colonos adscribere possent. vicena iugera pedites, quadragena equites acceperunt.

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).) — 30.9 focus

[1]

postero die Scipio Laelium Masinissamque cum omni Romano et Numidico equitatu expeditisque ¹ militum ad persequendos Syphacem atque Hasdrubalem mittit;

[2] ipse cum robore exercitus urbes circa, quae omnes Carthaginiensium dicionis erant, partim spe, partim metu, partim vi subigit.

[3] Carthagini erat quidem ingens terror, et circumferentem arma Scipionem omnibus finitimis raptim perdomitis ipsam Carthaginem repente adgressurum credebant.

[4] itaque et muri reficiebantur propugnaculisque armabantur, et pro se quisque quae diutinae obsidionis ² tolerandae sunt ex agris convehebat. ³

[5] rara mentio est pacis, frequentior legatorum ad Hannibalem arcessendum mittendorum;

[6] pars maxima classem quae ad commeatus excipiendos parata erat mittere iubent ad opprimendam stationem navium ad Uticam incaute agentem; forsitan etiam navalia castra, relicta cum levi praesidio, oppressuros.

[7] In hoc consilium maxime inclinant; legatos tamen ad ⁴ Hannibalem mittendos censent: quippe classi ut felicissime geratur ⁵ res, parte aliqua levari Uticae obsidionem;

[8] Carthaginem ipsam qui tueatur ⁶ neque imperatorem alium quam Hannibalem neque exercitum alium quam Hannibalis superesse.

[9] deductae ergo postero die naves, simul et legati in Italiam profecti; raptimque omnia stimulante fortuna agebantur, et in quo quisque cessasset prodi ab se salutem omnium rebatur.

[10] Scipio gravem iam spoliis multarum urbium exercitum trahens, captivis aliaque praeda in vetera castra ad Uticam missis, iam in Carthaginem intentus occupat relictum fuga custodum Tyneta.

[11] abest ab Carthagine quindecim milia ferme passuum locus, cum operibus tum suapte natura tutus, ⁷

[12] et qui et ab Carthagine conspici et praebere ipse prospectum cum ad urbem tum ad circumfusum ⁸ mare urbi possit. ⁹

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn Perseus (Weissenborn, W.; Müller, H. J., editors. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1873-1883.) — 35.9 focus

[1]

censores erant priore anno creati Sex. Aelius Paetus et ¹ C. Cornelius Cethegus .

[2] Cornelius lustrum condidit. censa sunt civium capita CXXXXIII. DCCIIII. aquae ingentes eo anno fuerunt, et Tiberis loca plana urbis inundavit;

[3] circa portam Flumentanam etiam collapsa quaedam ruinis sunt. et porta Coelimontana fulmine icta est, murusque circa multis locis de caelo tactus;

[5] horum prodigiorum causa decemviri libros adire iussi, et novemdiale sacrum factum, et supplicatio indicta est atque urbs lustrata.

[6] iisdem diebus aediculam Victoriae Virginis prope aedem Victoriae M. Porcius Cato dedicavit biennio post, quam vovit.

[7] eodem anno coloniam Latinam in castrum Frentinum ² triumviri deduxerunt A. Manlius Volso L. Apustius Fullo Q. Aelius Tubero , cuius lege deducebatur. tria milia peditum iere, trecenti equites, numerus exiguus pro copia agri.

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History of Rome Perseus (Spillan, D.; Edmonds, Cyrus; McDevitte, William A., translators. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849-1868. (Bohn's Classical Library)) — 35.9 focus

[1]

In the preceding year, Sextus Aelius Paetus and Caius Cornelius Cethegus were created censors. Cornelius now closed the lustrum.

[2] The number of citizens rated was a hundred and forty-three thousand seven hundred and four.

[3] Extraordinary quantities of rain fell in this year, and the Ti- ber overflowed the lower parts of the city; and some buildings near the Flumentan gate were even laid in ruins. The Cœlimontan gate was struck by lightning, as was the wall on each side of it, in several places.

[4] At Aricia, Lanuvium, and on the Aventine, showers of stones fell. From Capua, a report was brought that a very large swarm of wasps flew into the forum, and settled on the temple of Mars; that they had been carefully collected, and burnt.

[5] On account of these prodigies, the decemvirs were ordered to consult the books; the nine days' festival was celebrated, a supplication proclaimed, and the city purified. At the same time, Marcus Porcius Cato dedicated a chapel to Maiden Victory, near the temple of Victory, two years after he had vowed it.

[6] During this year, a Latin colony was established in the Thurian territory by commissioners appointed for the purpose, Cneius Manlius Vulso, Lucius Apustius Fullo, and Quintus Aelius Tubero, who had proposed the order for its settlement.

[7] There went out thither three thousand foot and three hundred horsemen; a very small number in proportion to the extent of the land.

[8] Thirty acres might have been given to each footman, and sixty to a horseman, but, by the advice of Apustius, a third part was reserved, that they might afterwards, when they should judge proper, send out thither a new colony. The footmen received twenty acres each, the horsemen forty.

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.) — 35.9 focus

[1]

The censors who had been elected during the previous year were Sextus Aelius Paetus and C. Cornelius Cethegus.

[2] Cornelius closed the lustrum. The assessment returns gave the number of citizens as 243,704. There was an enormous rainfall that year and the low-lying parts of the City were inundated by the Tiber.

[3] Near the Porta Flumentana some buildings collapsed and fell in ruins. The Porta Coelimontana was struck by lightning and the wall adjacent was struck in several places. At Aricia and Lanuvium and on the Aventine there were showers of stones.

[4] It was reported from Capua that a huge swarm of wasps flew into the forum and settled in the temple of Mars, and that they were carefully collected and burnt. In consequence of these portents the Keepers of the Sacred Books were ordered to consult them.

[5] Sacrifices were offered for nine days, public intercessions were appointed and the City underwent lustration. During this time M. Porcius Cato dedicated the chapel of Victoria Virgo near the temple of Victory, which he had vowed two years previously.

[6] During the year a Latin colony was settled at the Castrum Frentinum in the territory of Thurium.

[7] The commissioners who superintended the colonisation were A. Manlius Volso, L. Apustius Fullo and Q. Aelius Tubero, the latter of whom had brought in the bill for its settlement. The colonists comprised 3000 infantry and 300 cavalry, a small number in proportion to the amount of land available.

[8] Thirty jugera might have been allotted to each infantryman and 60 to each of the cavalry, but on the advice of Apustius a third of the land was reserved, which could, were it desired, be assigned to fresh colonists. The infantry received 20 jugera and the cavalry 40 each.

Notes on the current edition

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

1. Cf. XXXIV. xliv. 4.

2. This ceremony was the formal sacrifice and prayer which marked the completion of the censors' tasks. The lustrum was also the five-year period of the censors' term; it was customary for them to finish their business in a year and a half and thereafter to be inactive.

3. While the MSS. give the number thus, some editors follow Pighius in prefixing an additional C to the numeral. The census reported in XXIX. xxxvii. 6 showed a population of 214,000 in 204 B.C.; in 188 B.C. (XXXVIII. xxxvi. 10) it was 258,318. The fluctuation is so great that the emendation is probably correct. I have, however, kept the reading of the MSS. despite the fact that numerals are notoriously liable to corruption.

4. B.C. 193

5. The Sibylline Books, as often: cf. XXXI. xii. 9 and the note.

6. Two temples to Victoria are known, one on the Capitoline, one on the Palatine. Which is meant here is uncertain, and there is no other reference to Victoria Virgo. There is no record of the vow here mentioned.

7. This is probably the colony authorized in agrum Thurinum (XXXIV. liii. I), where the same commissioners are named.

Titus Livius (Livy) Ab urbe condita 35.9

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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