Liv. 2.5.1Dē bonīs rēgiīs, quae reddī ante cēnsuerant, rēs integra refertur ad patrēs.The question of the royal property, which they had earlier voted to return, is referred to the senators afresh. Liv. 2.5.1Iī victī īrā vetuēre reddī, vetuēre in pūblicum redigī: dīripienda plēbī sunt data, ut contāctā rēgiā praedā spem in perpetuum cum iīs pācis āmitteret.Overcome by anger, they forbade it to be returned and forbade it to be taken into the public treasury: it was given to the commons to plunder, so that, once tainted by the royal spoil, they might lose for ever the hope of peace with the Tarquins. Liv. 2.5.2Ager Tarquiniōrum, quī inter urbem ac Tiberim fuit, cōnsecrātus Mārtī Mārtius deinde campus fuit.The land of the Tarquins, which lay between the city and the Tiber, was consecrated to Mars and afterwards became the Campus Martius. Liv. 2.5.3Forte ibi tum seges farris dīcitur fuisse mātūra messī.It happened, they say, that a crop of spelt was standing there at the time, ripe for harvest. Liv. 2.5.3Quem campī frūctum quia religiōsum erat cōnsūmere, dēsectam cum strāmentō segetem magna vīs hominum simul inmissī corbibus fūdēre in Tiberim tenuī fluentem aquā, ut mediīs calōribus solet.Because it was sacrilegious to consume the produce of this field, a great crowd of men sent in together cut the crop, straw and all, and tipped it in baskets into the Tiber, which was flowing with little water, as it usually does in the height of summer.
Liv. 2.5.4Ita in vadīs haesitantis frūmentī acervōs sēdisse inlitōs līmō;So the heaps of grain, sticking in the shallows, settled there, coated with mud; Liv. 2.5.4īnsulam inde paulātim et aliīs, quae fert temerē flūmen, eōdem invectīs factam.an island was then gradually formed, as other things that the river happens to bring down were carried to the same place. Liv. 2.5.4Posteā crēdō additās mōlēs manūque adiūtum, ut iam ēminēns ārea firmaque templīs quoque ac porticibus sustinendīs esset.Later, I believe, embankments were added and art lent its help, so that the ground, now standing high and firm, could even support temples and colonnades. Liv. 2.5.5Dīreptīs bonīs rēgum damnātī prōditōrēs sūmptumque supplicium, cōnspectius eō, quod poenae capiendae ministerium patrī dē līberīs cōnsulātūs inposuit, et, quī spectātor erat āmovendus, eum ipsum fortūna exāctōrem suppliciī dedit.When the property of the royal family had been plundered, the traitors were condemned and punishment was inflicted, all the more conspicuous because the consulship laid upon a father the duty of punishing his own children, and fortune made the very man who ought to have been kept from watching the one who carried out the penalty.
Liv. 2.5.6Stābant dēligātī ad pālum nōbilissimī iuvenēs;There stood the young men of the noblest birth, bound to the stake; Liv. 2.5.6sed ā cēterīs, velut ab ignōtīs capitibus, cōnsulis līberī omnium in sē āverterant oculōs, miserēbatque nōn poenae magis hominēs quam sceleris, quō poenam meritī essent: illōs eō potissimum annō patriam līberātam, patrem līberātōrem, cōnsulātum ortum ex domō Iūniā, patrēs, plēbem, quidquid deōrum hominumque Rōmānōrum esset, indūxisse in animum, ut superbō quondam rēgī, tum īnfestō exulī prōderent.but the consul's sons had drawn the eyes of all onto themselves and away from the rest, as if these were persons unknown, and people pitied them not so much for the punishment as for the crime by which they had deserved it: that in that year of all years they had brought themselves to betray their newly freed country, their father its liberator, the consulship born of the Junian house, the senators, the commons, all that was divine and human at Rome, to one once a proud king, now a hostile exile. Liv. 2.5.8Cōnsulēs in sēdem prōcessēre suam, missīque līctōrēs ad sūmendum supplicium.The consuls advanced to their seat, and the lictors were sent to inflict the punishment.
Liv. 2.5.8Nūdātōs virgīs caedunt sēcūrīque feriunt, cum inter omne tempus pater vultusque et ōs eius spectāculō esset ēminente animō patriō inter pūblicae poenae ministerium.They strip them, beat them with rods and strike them with the axe, while all the time the father, his expression and his face, offered a spectacle, a father's feelings showing plainly as he performed the office of public punishment. Liv. 2.5.9Secundum poenam nocentium, ut in utramque partem arcendīs sceleribus exemplum nōbile esset, praemium indicī pecūniā ex aerāriō, lībertās et cīvitās data.After the punishment of the guilty, so that there might be a notable example in both directions for checking crime, the informer was given a reward of money from the treasury, freedom and citizenship. Liv. 2.5.9Ille prīmum dīcitur vindictā līberātus.He is said to have been the first to be freed by the rod of manumission. Liv. 2.5.10Quīdam vindictae quoque nōmen trāctum ab illō putant;Some think that even the word vindicta comes from him; Liv. 2.5.10Vindiciō ipsī nōmen fuisse.his name, they say, was Vindicius. Liv. 2.5.10Post illum observātum, ut, quī ita līberātī essent, in cīvitātem acceptī vidērentur.After him it became the rule that those freed in this way were regarded as admitted to citizenship.