genere honoris, statua equestri, donavere: in summa Sacra via fuit posita virgo insidens equo. Huic tam pacatae profectioni ab urbe regis Etrusci ab- 14 horrens mos, traditus ab antiquis, usque ad nostram aetatem inter cetera sollemnia manet, bona Porsinnae regis vendendi. Cuius originem moris necesse est aut inter 2 bellum natam esse neque omissam in pace, aut a mitiore crevisse principio quam hic prae se ferat titulus bona hostiliter vendendi. Proximum vero est ex iis quae tra- 3 duntur, Porsinnam discedentem ab Ianiculo castra opulenta convecto ex propinquis ac fertilibus Etruriae arvis commeatu Romanis dono dedisse, inopi tum urbe ab longinqua obsidione; ea deinde, ne populo immisso diri- 4 perentur hostiliter, venisse, bonaque Porsinnae appellata, gratiam muneris magis significante titulo quam auctionem fortunae regiae, quae ne in potestatem quidem populi Romani esset. Omisso Romano bello Porsinna, ne frustra in ea loca 5 ought to mean 'was there once,' but not in Livy's time; Seneca, however, speaks of it (ad Marc. 16. 2) as still existing. 14. profectioni: the dative with abhorreo is peculiar to this place, and the ablative without a preposition is not common. It may be a kind of construction according to the sense. - cetera sollemnia: i.e. those used at public sales of booty. - bona, etc.: a part of the booty was apparently so described at the sale. 2. omissam: attracted to agreement with originem, though it, as well as crevisse, belongs with moris. titulus: the notice of sale in which the property to be sold was enumerated. - hostiliter: i.e. as the property of an enemy, opposed to the peaceable character exercitus adductus videretur, cum parte copiarum filium 6 Arruntem Ariciam oppugnatum mittit. Primo Aricinos res necopinata perculerat. Arcessita deinde auxilia et a Latinis populis et a Cumis tantum spei fecere, ut acie decernere auderent. Proelio inito adeo concitato impetu se intulerant Etrusci ut funderent ipso incursu Aricinos. 7 Cumanae cohortes, arte adversus vim usae, declinavere paululum effuseque praelatos hostes conversis signis ab tergo adortae sunt ; ita in medio prope iam victores caesi 8 Etrusci. Pars perexigua duce amisso, quia nullum propius perfugium erat, Romam inermes et fortuna et specie supplicum delati sunt. Ibi benigne excepti divisique in Curatis vulneribus alii profecti domos nuntii hospitalium beneficiorum, multos Romae hospitum urbisque caritas tenuit. His locus ad habitandum datus, quem deinde Tuscum vicum appellarunt. 9 hospitia. hinted at in the metamorphosed narrative. Aricia (cf I. 50. 3), with the help of the Greek colony of Cumæ, seems to have stayed their advance. 6. perculerat : cf. consalutaverat, I. 7. I n, and intulerant, below. - arcessita, etc.: the emphasis gives the force, but having received upon application assistance from their neighbors, they ventured,' etc.-funderent, etc.: notice the chiastic antithesis. This is the more necessary because to us at first sight Aricinos seems the emphatic word. But a careful examination shows that funderent is the main word, of which the antithetic idea is postponed in chiastic fashion to the end. 7. declinavere: i.e. withdrew to one side, and let the enemy go by them in their onward rush (praelatos). conversis signis: i.e. after the enemy had gone by, they wheeled and attacked them. Spurius Larcius inde et P. Valerius Publicola con- 15 sules facti. Eo anno postremum legati a Porsinna de reducendo in regnum Tarquinio venerunt. Quibus cum responsum esset missurum ad regem senatum legatos, missi confestim honoratissimus quisque e patribus: non 2 quin breviter reddi responsum potuerit, non recipi reges, ideo potius delectos patrum ad eum missos quam legatis eius Romae daretur responsum, sed ut in perpetuum mentio eius rei finiretur, neu in tantis mutuis beneficiis in vicem animi sollicitarentur, cum ille peteret quod contra libertatem populi Romani esset, Romani, nisi in perniciem suam faciles esse vellent, negarent cui nihil ness for those who dealt in materials for luxury and dissipation. The reason for the name here given is probably not the true one. It was more likely the place of Tuscan merchandise. THIRD YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC. PEACE WITH PORSENA. 15. Sp. Larcius, etc.: the text is here so confused in the manuscripts that the names of the consuls cannot be made out with certainty. That Publicola was one of them is inferred from 16. 2. — honoratissimus quisque : indicating a large and imposing embassy, not two or three envoys. 2. breviter: i.e. without sending the embassy to say what they had already determined on. — - potuerit: representing a potuit (independent of the quin construction); see Gr. 308. c; it is not necessary to suppose a protasis in all these cases, but the construction is the same as if there were one. For connection of tenses, see Gr. 287. c. N.; the proper posset would not represent the perfect, which is required in this construction. For the quin construction, see Gr. 321, Rem. — - ne 3 negatum vellent. Non in regno populum Romanum, sed in libertate esse; ita induxisse in animum, hostibus potius portas quam regibus patefacere. Eam esse voluntatem omnium, ut qui libertati erit in illa urbe finis, idem urbi sit; proinde, si salvam esse vellet Romam, 5 ut patiatur liberam esse orare. Rex verecundia victus 'Quando id certum atque obstinatum est' inquit, 'neque ego obtundam saepius eadem nequiquam agendo, nec Tarquinios spe auxilii, quod nullum in me est, frustrabor. Alium hinc, seu bello opus est seu quiete, exsilio quaerant · 6 locum, ne quid meam vobiscum pacem distineat.' Dictis facta amiciora adiecit. Obsidum quod reliquum erat reddidit, agrum Veientem foedere ad Ianiculum icto ademp7 tum restituit. Tarquinius spe omni reditus incisa exsulatum ad generum Mamilium Octavium Tusculum abiit. Romanis pax fida ita cum Porsinna fuit. ... 3. non in regno, etc.: a part of what the embassy was to say. potius... quam. patefacere : here only the two nouns are compared, while the predicate remains the same, hence there is no need of a subjunctive. erit: see Gr. 336. b. 4. proinde: the clause following is really an imperative one, though orare, representing a parenthetical oramus, governs the construction; hence the use of this particle. 5. verecundia: i.e. respect for the noble sentiments of the Romans. - neque ego, etc.: the real opposition is between the Romans and the Tarquins, but this is disturbed by the earlier one between the Romans and Porsena, which would be brought out if Livy had stopped at agendo. The result is a careless confusion of antithesis. The same confusion appears in obtundam ... frustrabor. — quod nullum: quins. 6. agrum, etc.: cf. 13. 4. — ad Ianiculum: not necessarily inconsistent with 13. 2, because the negotiations themselves may have taken place there, though the initiative may have been taken by Porsena; but the whole is probably garbled. 7. Mamilium: see I. 49. 9. Romanis pax fida: these words, as opposed to the action in reference to the Tarquins, by their emphasis crowd ita out of its place. WAR WITH THE SABINES. ATTIUS 16. triumpharunt, were honored with a triumph. 2. et: connecting the idea of fight Consules M. Valerius P. Postumius. Eo anno bene 16 pugnatum cum Sabinis; consules triumpharunt. Maiore 2 inde mole Sabini bellum parabant. Adversus eos et ne quid simul ab Tusculo, unde, etsi non apertum, suspectum tamen bellum erat, repentini periculi oriretur, P. Valerius quartum T. Lucretius iterum consules facti. Seditio 3 inter belli pacisque auctores orta in Sabinis aliquantum inde virium transtulit ad Romanos. Namque Attius 4 Clausus, cui postea Appio Claudio fuit Romae nomen, cum pacis ipse auctor a turbatoribus belli premeretur nec par factioni esset, ab Inregillo magna clientium comitatus manu Romam transfugit. His civitas data agerque 5 trans Anienem; vetus Claudia tribus, additis postea novis tribulibus, qui ex eo venirent agro appellata. Appius inter patres lectus haud ita multo post in principum dignationem pervenit. Consules infesto exercitu in 6 agrum Sabinum profecti cum ita vastatione, dein proelio 5. vetus Claudia tribus: opposed to the new members who were added to the tribe, not to a new tribe.qui: the antecedent of this relative is the subject of appellata (est); see Gr. 199. – eo: the land assigned to these Sabines. - venirent: the subjunctive is occasioned by the idea of indirect discourse in appellata. - lectus: by the senate itself. - dignationem: differing from dignitas as a verbal abstract; 'the being held in esteem' from an abstract quality, 'the worthiness' of the man himself. The Latin does not often make such distinctions, and these two words afterwards were much confused in meaning. 6. vastatione: sapping their resources by predatory excursions; proelio: destroying their fighting power by killing, wounding, or cap |