Liv. 2.2.1Rērum deinde dīvīnārum habita cūra;Next attention was paid to religious matters; Liv. 2.2.1et quia quaedam pūblica sacra per ipsōs rēgēs factitāta erant, nēcubi rēgum dēsīderium esset, rēgem sacrificulum creant.and because certain public rites had regularly been performed by the kings in person, they appoint a king of sacrifices, so that the kings should not be missed anywhere. Liv. 2.2.2Id sacerdōtium pontificī subiēcēre, nē additus nōminī honōs aliquid lībertātī, cuius tunc prīma erat cūra, officeret.They made this priesthood subordinate to the pontiff, lest the honour added to the title should in any way stand in the way of liberty, which was then their first concern. Liv. 2.2.3Ac nesciō an nimis undique eam minimīsque rēbus mūniendō modum excesserint.And I am not sure whether, by fortifying it on every side and in the smallest matters, they did not go too far. Liv. 2.2.3Cōnsulis enim alterīus, cum nihil aliud offenderet, nōmen invīsum cīvitātī fuit: nimium Tarquiniōs regnō adsuēsse;For the name of one of the consuls, though nothing else about him gave offence, was hateful to the citizens: the Tarquins, they said, had grown too used to kingship; Liv. 2.2.3initium ā Prīscō factum;the beginning had been made by Priscus; Liv. 2.2.3regnāsse Dein Ser. Tullium;then Servius Tullius had reigned; Liv. 2.2.3nē intervallō quidem factō oblītum, tamquam aliēnī, regnī Superbum Tarquinium velut hērēditātem gentis scelere ac vī repetīsse;Tarquin the Proud, not even forgetting the kingship during the interval, as though it belonged to another, had sought it back by crime and violence as the inheritance of his family; Liv. 2.2.3pulsō Superbō penes Collātīnum imperium esse;now that Superbus had been driven out, the power lay in the hands of Collatinus; Liv. 2.2.3nescīre Tarquiniōs prīvātōs vīvere.the Tarquins did not know how to live as private citizens.
Liv. 2.2.3Nōn placēre nōmen, perīculōsum lībertātī esse.The name did not please them; it was dangerous to liberty. Liv. 2.2.4Hic prīmō sēnsim temptantium animōs sermō per tōtam cīvitātem est datus, sollicitamque suspīciōne plēbem Brūtus ad contiōnem vocat.This talk, from men gradually sounding out feelings, spread at first through the whole city, and Brutus calls the commons, troubled by suspicion, to an assembly. Liv. 2.2.5Ibi omnium prīmum iūs iūrandum populī recitat nēminem regnāre passūrōs nec esse Rōmae, unde perīculum lībertātī foret.There, first of all, he reads out the people's oath that they would allow no one to be king nor anyone to remain at Rome from whom danger to liberty might come. Liv. 2.2.5Id summā ope tuendum esse neque ūllam rem, quae eō pertineat, contemnendam.This, he said, must be guarded with all their might, and nothing that bore on it should be disregarded. Liv. 2.2.5Invītum sē dīcere hominis causā nec dictūrum fuisse, nī cāritās reī pūblicae vinceret: nōn crēdere populum Rōmānum solidam lībertātem reciperātam esse;He spoke unwillingly, for the man's sake, and would not have spoken had not love of the state prevailed: he did not believe that the Roman people had recovered full liberty; Liv. 2.2.6rēgium genus, rēgium nōmen nōn sōlum in cīvitāte, sed etiam in imperiō esse;the royal family, the royal name was still not only in the citizen body but even in power; Liv. 2.2.6id officere, id obstāre lībertātī.that was a hindrance, that was an obstacle to liberty.
Liv. 2.2.7"Hunc tū" inquit "tuā voluntāte, L. Tarquinī, removē metum.'Do you yourself, Lucius Tarquinius,' he said, 'remove this fear of your own free will. Liv. 2.2.7Meminimus, fatēmur, ēiēcistī rēgēs;We remember, we acknowledge it, you drove out the kings; Liv. 2.2.7absolve beneficium tuum, aufer hinc rēgum nōmen.complete your service, take away from here the very name of the kings. Liv. 2.2.7Rēs tuās tibi nōn sōlum reddent cīvēs tuī auctōre mē, sed, sī quid dēest, mūnificē augēbunt.Your fellow citizens, on my proposal, will not only give you back your property but, if anything is lacking, will generously add to it. Liv. 2.2.7Amīcus abī;Go as a friend; Liv. 2.2.7exonerā cīvitātem vānō forsitan metū: ita persuāsum est animīs, cum gente Tarquiniā regnum hinc abitūrum."relieve the state of a fear that is perhaps groundless: people are so convinced that only with the Tarquin family will kingship depart from here.' Liv. 2.2.8Cōnsulī prīmō tam novae reī ac subitae admīrātiō inclūserat vōcem;At first astonishment at so strange and sudden a thing had shut off the consul's voice; Liv. 2.2.8dīcere deinde incipientem prīmōrēs cīvitātis circumsistunt, eadem multīs precibus ōrant.then, as he began to speak, the leading men of the state stand round him and urge the same thing with many entreaties.
Liv. 2.2.8Et cēterī quidem movēbant minus;And the others, indeed, had less effect; Liv. 2.2.9postquam Sp. Lucrētius, maior aetāte ac dignitāte, socer praetereā ipsīus, agere variē rogandō alternīs suādendōque coepit, ut vincī sē cōnsēnsū cīvitātis paterētur, timēns cōnsul, nē postmodum prīvātō sibi eadem illa cum bonōrum āmissiōne additāque aliā īnsuper ignōminiā acciderent, abdicāvit sē cōnsulātū rēbusque suīs omnibus Lāvīnium trānslātīs cīvitāte cessit.but when Spurius Lucretius, his superior in age and rank, and his own father-in-law besides, began to work on him in various ways, now begging, now persuading, to let himself be overcome by the agreement of the state, the consul, fearing that later, when he was a private citizen, the same fate might befall him along with the loss of his property and some further disgrace besides, resigned his consulship and, having moved all his possessions to Lavinium, left the state. Liv. 2.2.11Brūtus ex senātūs cōnsultō ad populum tulit, ut omnēs Tarquiniae gentis exulēs essent.Brutus, by decree of the senate, proposed to the people that all members of the Tarquin family should be exiles. Liv. 2.2.11Collēgam sibi comitiīs centuriātīs creāvit P. Valerium, quō adiūtōre rēgēs ēiēcerat.In the centuriate assembly he had Publius Valerius elected as his colleague, with whose help he had driven out the kings.