Liv. 3.13.1Premēbat reum praeter vulgātam invidiam crīmen ūnum, quod M. Volscius Fictor, quī ante aliquot annōs tribūnus plēbis fuerat, testis extiterat sē haud multō post, quam pestilentia in urbe fuerat, in iuventūtem grassantem in Subūrā incidisse.Besides the general resentment, one charge bore heavily on the defendant: Marcus Volscius Fictor, who some years before had been tribune of the plebs, had come forward as a witness that not long after the pestilence had been in the city he had fallen in with a band of young men roaming about in the Subura. Liv. 3.13.2Ibi rixam nātam esse, frātremque suum maiōrem nātū, necdum ex morbō satis validum, pugnō ictum ab Caesōne cecidisse;There a brawl had broken out, and his elder brother, not yet strong enough after his illness, had been struck by Caeso's fist and fallen; Liv. 3.13.3sēmianimem inter manūs domum ablātum mortuumque inde arbitrārī, nec sibi rem exequī tam atrōcem per cōnsulēs superiōrum annōrum licuīsse.he had been carried home half-dead in men's arms and, he believed, had died of it, and he had not been allowed by the consuls of previous years to pursue so atrocious a matter.
Liv. 3.13.3Haec Volsciō clāmitante adeō concitātī hominēs sunt, ut haud multum āfuerit, quīn impetū populī Caesō interīret.As Volscius kept shouting this, people were so roused that Caeso came close to perishing at the hands of the people. Liv. 3.13.3Verginius arripī iubet hominem et in vincula dūcī.Verginius ordered the man to be seized and taken off to prison. Liv. 3.13.4Patriciī vī contrā vim resistunt.The patricians met force with force. Liv. 3.13.4T. Quīnctius clāmitat, cui reī capitālis diēs dicta sit et dē quō futūrum prope diem iūdicium, eum indemnātum indictā causā nōn dēbēre violārī.Titus Quinctius kept shouting that a man against whom a capital charge had been laid, and about whom a trial was to be held shortly, ought not to be harmed uncondemned and without a hearing. Liv. 3.13.5Tribūnus supplicium negat sūmptūrum sē dē indemnātō;The tribune said he would not inflict punishment on a man uncondemned; Liv. 3.13.5servātūrum tamen in vinculīs esse ad iūdiciī diem, ut, quī hominem necāverit, dē eō suppliciī sūmendī cōpia populō Rōmānō fīat.but he would keep him in prison until the day of the trial, so that the Roman people might have the opportunity of punishing one who had killed a man.
Liv. 3.13.6Appellātī tribūnī mediō dēcrētō iūs auxiliī suī expediunt, in vincla conicī vetant;The tribunes, being appealed to, by a compromise decision exercised their right of protection: they forbade his being thrown into prison; Liv. 3.13.7sistī reum, pecūniamque, nī sistātur, populō prōmittī placēre prōnūntiant.they announced their decision that the defendant should appear and that money should be promised to the people if he did not appear. Liv. 3.13.7Summam pecūniae quantam aecum esset prōmittī, veniēbat in dubium;How large a sum of money it was fair to promise came into doubt; Liv. 3.13.8id ad senātum rēicitur.that was referred to the senate. Liv. 3.13.8Reus, dum cōnsulerentur patrēs, retentus in pūblicō est.While the senators were being consulted, the defendant was detained in public. Liv. 3.13.8Vadēs darī placuit;It was decided that sureties should be given; Liv. 3.13.8ūnum vadem tribus mīlibus aeris obligāvērunt;they bound each surety for three thousand pounds of bronze; Liv. 3.13.8quot darentur, permissum tribūnīs est.how many should be given was left to the tribunes. Liv. 3.13.8Decem fīniērunt.They fixed it at ten. Liv. 3.13.8Tot vadibus accūsātor vadātus est reum.With that many sureties the accuser held the defendant on bail.
Liv. 3.13.8Hic prīmus vādēs pūblicō dedit.He was the first to give sureties to the public treasury. Liv. 3.13.8Dīmissus ē forō nocte proximā in Tuscōs in exilium abiit.Released from the Forum, he went off the next night into exile among the Etruscans. Liv. 3.13.9Iūdiciī diē cum excūsārētur sōlum vertisse exiliī causā, nihilō minus Verginiō comitia habente collēgae appellātī dīmīsēre concilium.On the day of the trial, when it was pleaded in excuse for him that he had left the country to go into exile, nevertheless, as Verginius was holding the assembly, his colleagues, being appealed to, dismissed the gathering. Liv. 3.13.9Pecūnia ā patre exācta crūdēliter, ut dīvenditīs omnibus bonīs aliquamdiū trāns Tiberim velutī relēgātus dēviō quōdam tuguriō vīveret.The money was exacted from his father so pitilessly that, after selling off all his property, he lived for some time across the Tiber, as if banished, in some out-of-the-way hut.