A Literal Translation of the First Three Books of Prendeville's Livy
A Literal Translation of the First Three Books of Prendeville's Livy
Livy
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XLIIL Q. Fabius and C. Julius were then created consuls* In this year, the dissensions at home were not more languid, and there was a more furious war abroad. Arms were taken up by the JSqui ; the Veientians also invaded the territory of the Romans in a predatory Digitized by LjOOQlC Chap. 43. LlVY. 137 manner ; their solicitude for these wars encreasing, K* Fabius and Sp. Furius are created consuls. The iEqui were laying siege to Ortona, a Latin city. The Veien- Jians, now sated with depredati...ons, were threatening that they would besiege Rome itself. Which alarms, when they ought to check, only encreased the passions of the commons still more, and the habit of declining military service returned upon the plebeians, not of their own accord ; but Sp. Licinius, a tribune of the commons, judging that the time had now come, of forcing the agrarian law on the patricians, by the last degree of necessity, had undertaken the task of imped- ing* the military preparations. But the whole odium of the tribunic power was turned against the author : nor did the consuls stand up to oppose him with more vi- gour, than did his own very colleagues : and by their support, the consuls finish the levy.
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