ἱστορίαι Historiai
Liv. 5.24 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
much because rney cteservea it as that the commonwealth, weanea wlzn such. a long war, might enjoy repose..r*r rvvr r . , r-..--一 众S,1 V·1笋黔za6 }Ui琴“““呷arzsiw瞥fro“一仰nquest off - V eii . 一i ne year i:ouowing me capture of V ell had for the six consular tribunes two of the hublii Cornelii, namely, Cossus and SCiDio. -一---一一_一‘乙__一_-------一-一一一一一一一一一7一一一一门.~.J7~~~叼一丫~户.一~丫翻r.,夕 1\1。Va工eriusv a纵axinzus--tor the second time---Uaeso上’abxus Axnbustus---for the third timeL,. FuriusMedullinus--for the fifthtime一and+Q. Servilius--far the third time. The against the Faliscans was allotted to the Cornelii, that Capcriae to V'alerius and Servilius. They did not make 。迁剐,0. 沈嫌ylt任 滋te价Ptto tale cities either b assault or investment, confinedthemselves to countryand the工)roP“rtyof七1、eagricultu not a single fruit tree, na produce whatever, was left on the land. These losses broke theresistance of the Capenates, they sued for peace and it was 糕黔瓢111之糕the F'alxscans the war went an. Inthem,.disturbances arose on various matters. Inrains, order to quiet them it had been decided to plant a colony on the Voloci叭frontie巧and the names of 3000 Roman citizens wereVolscian entered, far_it._分沁粤vir‘_appa沙edforthe purpose haded divided the land into lots of 3TY lugera per man. '1 his. grant began to be looked upon with contempt,.. w势ey regarded itr二a sop offered to diem to divert协em from_ hoping for sometnxng better.“Why," they. asked,.‘:were plebeians to be。 sent into banishment amongst the v o1scians when the splendid city oz Vcii and the t of the Veientines was within view, more fertile and more ample than the territory of Rome? " Whetherin respect of its situation or of the magnificence of its public andprivate buildings and its open spaces, they gave that city the preference over :tonne. They even brought forward a pro-posal, which met with still more support after the capture ofRome by the Gauls, for migrating to Veii. They intended,however, that Veii should be inhabited by a portion of the plebsand a part of the senate; they thought it a feasible project thattwo separate cities should be inhabited by the Roman peopleand form one Mate. In, opposition to these proposals, the nobility went so far as topdeclare that they would sooner die before the eyes of the Roman people than that any of those schemes should be put to the vote. If, they argued, there was so much dissension in one citv. what would there be in two?Could any one possibly 0oreter a conauered. to a conauerxna city, ana allow v en to enlov a greater good fortune after its capture than while it stood safe? It was possible that in the end they might be left behind in their native City by their fellow-citizens, but no power on earth Would compel them to abandon their native City and their fellowcitizens in order to follow T. Sicinius--the proposer of this measure--to Veii as its new founder, and so abandon :P omulus, a god and the son of a ,god, the father and creator of the City ofRome.

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass
Cossus — a candidate entry Servilius — a candidate entry

The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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