A Literal Translation of the First Three Books of Prendeville's LivyJ. Cumming, 1830 - 266 ページ |
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Æneas Æqui afterwards Alban Algidum ambassadors amongst Antium appeared Appius arms army assembly attack Aurunci authority Aventine battle body Brutus called camp Capitol carried cavalry CHAP citadel citizens Claudius Collatia colleague command commons consular consuls consulship created death decemvirs declared decree dictator dignity elected enemy enemy's engagement Equi Etrurians exile Fabii Fabius father favour fight fortune Forum forward fury Gabii gates gods Hernici honour Horatius horse Icilius indignation Janiculum Jupiter Kæso king land Latin war Latins Lavinium legions lest liberty lictors Lucretius Mettus minds multitude patricians peace person plebeian plunder Postumius present punishment Quinctius reign Roman territory Rome Romulus round routed Rutuli Sabines says Scaptius senate senate-house sent Servius slaves soldiers spirit Tarquin Tarquinii Tarquinius temple terror thence thing Tiber tion tribunic power troops Tullus Tusculum Valerius Veientians victory violence Virginius Volsci Volscian whilst young
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iv ページ - ... learn to avoid them. Now either partiality to the subject of my intended work misleads me, or there never was any state either greater or of purer morals or richer in good examples than this of Rome; nor was there ever any city into which avarice and luxury made their entrance so late or where poverty and frugality were so highly and so long held in honour, men contracting their desires in proportion to the narrowness of their circumstances. Of late years, indeed, opulence has introduced a greediness...
132 ページ - XL. Then the matrons went in a body to Veturia, the mother of Coriolanus, and Volumnia his wife. Whether this was in consequence of a decree of the senate, or simply the prompting of womanly fear, I am unable to ascertain, but at all events they succeeded in inducing the aged Veturia to go with Volumnia and her two little sons to the enemies
55 ページ - Tarquin had already expired, he, under pretence of discharging the duties of another, strengthened his own interest. Then, at length, the matter being made public, and lamentations being raised in the palace, Servius, supported by a strong guard, took possession of the kingdom by the consent of the Senate, being the first who did so without the orders of the people.
132 ページ - Rome came within view, did it not occur to you, within these walls my house and guardian gods are, my mother, wife, and children ? So then, had I not been a mother, Rome would not be besieged: had I not a son, I might have died free in a free country.
176 ページ - Stratœ passim matres, crinibus templa verrentes, veniam iraram cœlestium ftneraque pesti exposcunt. The senate, unable to discover a prospect of relief for the plague in any human means, directed the people to have recourse to vows and to the deities ; they were ordered to go, with their wives and children, to offer supplications and implore the favour of the gods ; and all being thus called out by public authority, to perform what each man was strongly urged to by his own private calamities, they...
264 ページ - ... young man, as he was serving his twentieth campaign, when operations were going on at Corioli. He therefore adduced a fact forgotten by length of time, but one deeply fixed in his own memory: the district now in dispute had belonged to the territory of Corioli, and after the taking of Corioli, it became by right of war the public property of the Roman people. That he was surprised how the states of Ardea and Aricia should hope to intercept from the Roman people, whom from being the right owners...
33 ページ - ... the wound, exhausted from running, and dispirited by the slaughter of his brethren before his eyes, presents himself to his victorious antagonist. Nor was that a fight. The Roman, exulting, says, " Two I have offered to the shades of my brothers : the third I will offer to the cause of this war, that the Roman may rule over the Alban.
iii ページ - ... records of history: — these, I have no intention either to maintain or refute. Antiquity is always indulged with the privilege of rendering the origin of cities more venerable, by intermixing divine with human agency; and if any nation may claim the privilege of being allowed to consider its original as sacred, and to attribute it to the operations of the gods, surely the Roman people, who rank so high in military fame, may well expect that, while they choose to represent Mars as their own...
iii ページ - ... farther, then beginning to fall precipitate, until he arrives at the present times, when our vices have attained to such a height of enormity, that we can no longer endure either the burden of them, or the sharpness of the necessary remedies. This is the great advantage to be derived from the study of history; indeed the only one which can make it answer any profitable...
79 ページ - ... multitude, already incensed, to deprive the king of his authority, and to order the banishment of L. Tarquin with his wife and children. He himself, having selected and armed some of the young men, who readily gave in their names, set out for Ardea to the camp to excite the army against the king: the command in the city he leaves to Lucretius, who had been already appointed prefect of the city by the king. During this tumult Tullia fled from her house, both men and women cursing her wherever...