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), 39.3

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[1] In Gaul the praetor Marcus Furius, seeking in peace the appearance of war, had disarmed the Cenomani,¹ who had given no provocation:

[2] they in² consequence laid a complaint about this before the senate at Rome, and were referred to the consul Aemilius, whom the senate had authorized to investigate and decide, and after engaging in great contention with the praetor won their case.

[3] The praetor was ordered to restore their arms to the Cenomani and to leave the province.

[4] Then ambassadors from the allies of the Latin confederacy, who had assembled from all Latium in great numbers from every side, were granted an audience by the senate. When they complained that a great number of their citizens had migrated to Rome and had been assessed there,³ Quintus Terentius Culleo the

[5] praetor was instructed to search them out, and, on receiving from the allies proof that any person or the father of such person⁴ had been assessed among the allies in the censorship of Gaius Claudius and Marcus Livius⁵ or after that censorship, to compel such persons to return to the places where they had been registered.

[6] As a consequence of this investigation twelve thousand of the Latins returned home, for even at that time a multitude of aliens was burdening the city.

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.) — 39.3 focus

[1] in Gallia M. Furius praetor insontibus Cenomanis, in pace speciem belli quaerens, ademerat arma.

[2] id Cenomani conquesti Romae apud senatum reiectique ad consulem Aemilium, cui ut cognosceret statueretque senatus permiserat, magno certamine cum praetore habito obtinuerunt causam.

[3] arma reddere Cenomanis, decedere provincia praetor iussus. legatis Legatis deinde sociorum Latini nominis,

[4] qui toto undique ex Latio frequentes convenerant, senatus datus est. his querentibus magnam multitudinem civium suorum Romam commigrasse et ibi censos esse,

[5] Q. Terentio Culleoni praetori negotium datum est, ut eos conquireret, et quern quem C. Claudio M. Livio censoribus postve eos censores ipsum parentemve eius apud se censum esse probassent socii, ut redire eo cogeret, ubi censi essent.

[6] hac conquisitione duodecim milia Latinorum domos redierunt, iam tur tum multitudine alienigenarum urbem onerante.

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).) — 43.3 focus

[1]

et alia novi generis hominum ex Hispania legatio venit.

[2] ex militibus Romanis et ex Hispanis mulieribus, cum quibus conubium non esset, natos se memorantes, supra quattuor milia hominum, orabant ¹ ut sibi oppidum in quo habitarent daretur.

[3] senatus decrevit, uti nomina sua apud L. Canuleium profiterentur eorumque, si quos manumisissent, ² eos Carteiam ad Oceanum deduci placere;

[4] qui Carteiensium ³ domi manere vellent, potestatem fieri, uti numero colonorum essent, agro adsignato. latinam eam earn coloniam esse ⁴ libertinorumque appellari.

[5] eodem tempore ex Africa et Gulussa regulus, Masinissae filius, ⁵ legatus patris, et Carthaginienses venerunt.

[6] Gulussa prior in senatum introductus et quae missa erant ad bellum Macedonicum a patre suo exposuit; et si qua praeterea vellent imperare ⁶ praestaturum merito populi Romani est pollicitus, et monuit patres conscriptos ut a fraude Carthaginiensium caverent:

[7] classis eos magnae parandae consilium cepisse, ⁷ specie pro Romanis et adversus Macedonas; ubi ea ⁸ parata instructaque esset, ipsorum fore potestatis, quem hostem hosted aut socium habeant. hanc iniec . . . ⁹

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn Perseus (Weissenborn, W.; Müller, H. J., editors. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1873-1883.) — 39.3 focus

[1]

in Gallia M. Furius praetor insontibus Cenomanis, in pace speciem belli quaerens, ademerat arma.

[2] id Cenomani conquesti Romae apud senatum reiectique ad consulem Aemilium, cui, ut cognosceret statueretque, senatus permiserat, magno certamine cum praetore habito tenuerunt causam.

[3] arma reddere Cenomanis, decedere provincia praetor iussus. ¹

[4] legatis deinde sociorum Latini nominis, qui toto undique ex Latio frequentes convenerant, senatus datus est. his querentibus magnam multitudinem civium suorum Romam commigrasse et ibi censos esse,

[5] Q. Terentio Culleoni praetori negotium datum est, ut eos conquireret, et quem C. Claudio M. Livio censoribus postve eos censores ipsum parentemve eius apud se censum esse ² probassent socii, ut redire eo cogeret, ubi censi essent.

[6] hac conquisitione duodecim milia Latinorum domos redierunt, iam tum multitudine alienigenarum urbem onerante.

Translations (2)

History of Rome Perseus (Spillan, D.; Edmonds, Cyrus; McDevitte, William A., translators. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849-1868. (Bohn's Classical Library)) — 39.3 focus

[1]

In Gaul, the praetor, Marcus Furius, seeking a pretext for war in the midst of peace, deprived the unoffending Caenomanians of their arms.

[2] The Caenomanians complained of this to the senate at Rome, and were by them referred to the consul Aemilius, whom the senate authorized to examine into and determine the cause; after a warm contest with the praetor they gained their cause.

[3] The praetor was ordered to restore their arms to the Caenomanians, and quit the province. The senate afterwards gave audience to envoys of the Latin confederation, who had come, in great numbers, from all parts of Latium.

[4] On their complaint that a great multitude of their citizens had been removed to Rome, and had been assessed there in the survey; a commission was given to Quintus Terentius Culleo, the praetor, to make inquiry after such persons;

[5] and on the allies proving that those persons themselves, or their fathers, had been assessed in the surveys of their states in the censorship of Caius Claudius and Marcus Livius, or at some time subsequent to their censorship, he was ordered to compel all such to return to the several states wherein they had been so rated.

[6] In consequence of this inquiry, twelve thousand Latins returned home; as the multitude of foreigners even then burdened the city.

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.) — 39.3 focus

[1]

In Gaul all was peaceful, but the praetor M. Furius, anxious to make it appear as though he were engaged in war, deprived the unoffending Cenomani of their arms.

[2] They sent to Rome to complain and were referred by the senate to Aemilius, who was empowered to investigate the case.

[3] There was a long and heated debate with the praetor, but they maintained their ground throughout, and Furius was ordered to restore their arms and leave his province.

[4] The senate then gave audience to the deputations who had come from all the cities and colonies of the Latin allies. Their grievance was that a large number of their citizens had migrated to Rome and were placed on the census there.

[5] Q. Terentius Culleo, one of the praetors, was charged with the task of finding them out, and whoever was proved to have been registered at home during the censorship of C. Claudius and M. Livius or their successors, he was to order his return to the city in which he had been registered; 12,000 Latins returned in consequence to their homes.

[6] Even then the City was overcrowded by the multitude of immigrants.

Notes on the current edition

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

1. The Cenomani had been quiet since their defeat by Cethegus in 197 B.C. (XXXIII. xxiii. 4).

2. B.C. 187

3. The allied cities and the Latin colonies, whose status was similar, were under obligations to Rome, in accordance with their several treaties and constitutions. The migration of their citizens to Rome increased the burden on those who remained at home; the status of the migrants is uncertain: they seem not to have acquired Roman citizenship and yet to have been assessed by the censors.

4. Since only heads of families were listed, the omission of this provision would have opened the door to persons who moved to Rome in the lifetimes of their fathers.

5. They were censors in 204 B.C. The date chosen was probably arbitrary and the result of compromise.

Titus Livius (Livy) Ab urbe condita 39.3

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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