Liv. 3.1.1Antiō captō T. Aemilius et Q. Fabius cōnsulēs fīunt.After the capture of Antium, Titus Aemilius and Quintus Fabius became consuls. Liv. 3.1.1Hic erat Fabius, quī ūnus exstīnctae ad Cremeram gentī superfuerat.This was the Fabius who alone had survived when his clan was wiped out at the Cremera. Liv. 3.1.2Iam priōre cōnsulātū Aemilius dandī agrī plēbī fuerat auctor;Already in his former consulship Aemilius had been the advocate of giving land to the plebs; Liv. 3.1.2itaque secundō quoque cōnsulātū eius et agrāriī sē in spem lēgis ērēxerant, et tribūnī rem contrā cōnsulēs saepe temptātam adiūtōre utique cōnsule obtinērī posse ratī suscipiunt, et cōnsul manēbat in sententiā suā.and so in his second consulship too the supporters of land reform had raised themselves to the hope of a law, and the tribunes, thinking that a measure often attempted against the consuls could certainly be carried with a consul as its helper, took it up, and the consul held to his opinion. Liv. 3.1.3Possessōrēs et magna pars patrum, tribūniciīs sē iactāre āctiōnibus prīncipem cīvitātis et largiendō dē aliēnō populārem fierī querentēs, tōtīus invidiam reī ā tribūnīs in cōnsulem āverterant.The landholders and a great part of the senators, complaining that the leading man of the state was flaunting himself in tribunician proceedings and making himself popular by giving away what belonged to others, had turned the odium of the whole affair from the tribunes onto the consul.
Liv. 3.1.3Atrōx certāmen aderat, nī Fabius cōnsiliō neutrī partī acerbō rem expedīsset;A fierce struggle was at hand, had not Fabius settled the matter with a plan bitter to neither party: Liv. 3.1.4T. Quīnctī ductū et auspiciō agrī captum priōre annō aliquantum ā Volscīs esse;a fair amount of land, he said, had been taken from the Volscians the previous year under the leadership and auspices of Titus Quinctius; Liv. 3.1.4Antium, propinquam, opportūnam et maritimam urbem, colōniam dēdūcī posse;a colony could be sent out to Antium, a nearby, well-placed city on the sea; Liv. 3.1.5ita sine querellīs possessōrum plēbem in agrōs itūram, cīvitātem in concordiā fore.in this way the plebs would go onto the land without complaints from the landholders, and the state would be in harmony. Liv. 3.1.5Haec sententia accepta est.This proposal was accepted. Liv. 3.1.6Triumvirōs agrō dandō creat T. Quīnctium, A. Verginium, P. Fūrium.He appointed Titus Quinctius, Aulus Verginius and Publius Furius as a board of three for allotting the land. Liv. 3.1.7Iussī nōmina dare, quī agrum accipere vellent.Those who wished to receive land were told to give in their names.
Liv. 3.1.7Fēcit statim, ut fit, fastīdium cōpia, adeōque paucī nōmina dedēre, ut ad explendum numerum colōnī Volscī adderentur;At once, as happens, plenty bred disdain, and so few gave their names that Volscian colonists were added to make up the number; Liv. 3.1.7cētera multitūdō poscere Rōmae agrum mālle quam alibī accipere.the rest of the multitude preferred to demand land at Rome rather than receive it elsewhere. Liv. 3.1.8Aequī ā Q. Fabiō — is eō cum exercitū vēnerat — pācem petiēre inrītamque eam ipsī subitā incursiōne in agrum Latīnum fēcēre.The Aequi asked Quintus Fabius for peace — he had come there with an army — and themselves made it void by a sudden raid into Latin territory.