Liv. 2.42.1Haud diūturna īra populī in Cassium fuit.The people's anger against Cassius did not last long. Liv. 2.42.1Dulcēdō agrāriae lēgis ipsa per sē dēmptō auctōre subībat animōs, accēnsaque ea cupiditās est malignitāte patrum, quī dēvictīs eō annō Volscīs Aequīsque mīlitem praedā fraudāvēre.The charm of the agrarian law of itself, now that its author was removed, was stealing into their minds, and that desire was inflamed by the meanness of the senators, who, when the Volsci and Aequi had been defeated that year, cheated the soldiers of the booty. Liv. 2.42.2Quidquid captum ex hostibus est, vēndidit Fabius cōnsul ac redēgit in pūblicum.Whatever was taken from the enemy, the consul Fabius sold and paid into the treasury. Liv. 2.42.2Invīsum erat Fabium nōmen plēbī propter novissimum cōnsulem;The name of Fabius was hated by the plebs because of the last consul; Liv. 2.42.2tenuēre tamen patrēs, ut cum L. Aemiliō Caesō Fabius cōnsul creārētur.the senators nevertheless succeeded in having Caeso Fabius made consul with Lucius Aemilius. Liv. 2.42.3Eō īnfestior facta plēbēs sēditiōne domesticā bellum externum excīvit.The plebs, made all the more hostile by this, through sedition at home called forth war abroad.
Liv. 2.42.3Bellō deinde cīvīlēs discordiae intermissae.Then civil discord was suspended by the war. Liv. 2.42.3Ūnō animō patrēs ac plēbs rebellantēs Volscōs et Aequōs duce Aemiliō prosperā pugnā vīcēre.With one mind, senators and plebs, under the leadership of Aemilius, defeated the rebelling Volsci and Aequi in a successful battle. Liv. 2.42.4Plūs tamen hostium fuga quam proelium absūmpsit: adeō pertināciter fūsōs īnsecūtī sunt equitēs.More of the enemy, however, were destroyed by the flight than by the battle: so relentlessly did the cavalry pursue them once routed. Liv. 2.42.5Castoris aedēs eōdem annō Īdibus Quīntīlibus dēdicāta est.The temple of Castor was dedicated in the same year, on the Ides of Quintilis. Liv. 2.42.5Vōta erat Latīnō bellō ā Postumiō dictātōre;It had been vowed in the Latin war by Postumius the dictator; Liv. 2.42.5fīlius eius duumvir ad id ipsum creātus dēdicāvit.his son, made one of two commissioners for that very purpose, dedicated it. Liv. 2.42.5Sollicitātī et eō annō sunt dulcēdine agrāriae lēgis animī plēbis.In that year too the minds of the plebs were stirred by the charm of the agrarian law.
Liv. 2.42.6Tribūnī plēbī populārem potestātem lēge populārī celebrābant;The tribunes of the plebs were exalting their popular power with a popular law; Liv. 2.42.6patrēs satis superque grātuītī furōris in multitūdine crēdentēs esse, largītiōnēs temeritātisque invītāmenta horrēbant.the senators, believing there was more than enough wanton frenzy in the multitude already, shuddered at largess and incitements to recklessness. Liv. 2.42.6Ācerrimī patribus ducēs ad resistendum cōnsulēs fuēre.The consuls were the senators' fiercest leaders in resistance. Liv. 2.42.7Ea igitur pars reī pūblicae vīcit nec in praesēns modo, sed in venientem etiam annum M. Fabium, Caesōnis frātrem, et magis invīsum alterum plēbī accūsātiōne Sp. Cassī, L. Valerium, cōnsulēs dedit.That part of the state therefore won, and not only for the present but for the coming year too it gave as consuls Marcus Fabius, Caeso's brother, and one still more hated by the plebs for his prosecution of Spurius Cassius, Lucius Valerius. Liv. 2.42.7Certātum eō quoque annō cum tribūnīs est.In that year too there was a struggle with the tribunes. Liv. 2.42.8Vāna lēx vānīque lēgis auctōrēs iactandō inritum mūnus factī.The law proved empty and its proposers empty, as they boasted of a gift that came to nothing.
Liv. 2.42.8Fabium inde nōmen ingēns post trēs continuōs cōnsulātūs ūnōque velut tenōre omnēs expertōs tribūniciīs certāminibus habitum;From then on the Fabian name was held in great esteem, after three successive consulships all of which had, as it were in one unbroken course, been tested in struggles with the tribunes; Liv. 2.42.8itaque, ut bene locātus, mānsit in eā familiā aliquamdiū honōs.and so, as being well placed, the office remained in that family for some time. Liv. 2.42.8Bellum inde Vēiēns initum, et Volscī rebellārunt.Then war with Veii was begun, and the Volsci rebelled. Liv. 2.42.9Sed ad bella externa prope supererant vīrēs, abūtēbanturque iīs inter sēmet ipsōs certandō.But for foreign wars their strength was almost more than enough, and they misused it in quarrelling among themselves. Liv. 2.42.10Accessēre ad aegrās iam omnium mentēs prōdigia caelestia, prope cōtīdiānās in urbe agrīsque ostentantia minās;On top of everyone's already troubled minds came portents from the heavens, showing threats almost every day in the city and the countryside; Liv. 2.42.10mōtīque ita nūminis causam nūllam aliam vātēs canēbant pūblicē prīvātimque nunc extīs nunc per avēs cōnsultī, quam haud rīte sacra fierī.and the seers, consulted now through entrails, now through birds, both publicly and privately, declared that there was no other cause for the god being thus stirred than that the rites were not being duly performed.
Liv. 2.42.11Quī terrōrēs tamen eō ēvāsēre, ut Oppia virgō Vestālis damnāta incestī poenās dederit.These terrors, however, ended in this, that Oppia, a Vestal Virgin, was condemned for unchastity and punished.