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24. forte in duobus tum exercitibus erant trigemini fratres nec aetate nec viribus dispares. Horatios Curiatiosque fuisse satis constat, nec ferme res antiqua alia est nobilior; tamen in re tam clara nominum error manet, utrius populi Horatii, utrius Curiatii fuerint. auctores utroque trahunt; plures tamen invenio, [p. 28] qui Romanos Horatios vocent; hos ut sequar, inclinat animus. [2] cum trigeminis agunt reges, ut pro sua quisque patria dimicent ferro: ibi imperium fore, unde victoria fuerit. nihil recusatur; tempus et locus convenit. [3] priusquam dimicarent, foedus ictum inter Romanos et Albanos est his legibus, ut, cuius populi cives eo certamine vicissent, is alteri populo cum bona pace imperitaret.

[4] foedera alia aliis legibus, ceterum eodem modo omnia fiunt. tum ita factum accepimus, nec ullius vetustior foederis memoria est. fetialis regem Tullum ita rogavit: 'iubesne me, rex, cum patre patrato populi Albani foedus ferire?' iubente rege 'sagmina' inquit 'te, rex, posco.' [5] rex ait: 'puram tollito.' fetialis ex arce graminis herbam puram attulit. postea regem ita rogavit: 'rex, facisne me tu regium nuntium populi Romani Quiritium, vasa comitesque meos?' rex respondit: 'quod sine fraude mea populique Romani Quiritium fiat, facio.' [6] fetialis erat M. Valerius; is patrem patratum Sp. Fusium fecit verbena caput capillosque tangens. pater patratus ad ius iurandum patrandum id est sanciendum fit foedus multisque id verbis, quae longo effata carmine non operae est referre, peragit. [7] legibus deinde recitatis 'audi' inquit, 'Iuppiter, audi, pater patrate populi Albani, audi tu, populus Albanus: ut illa palam prima postrema ex illis tabulis cerave recitata sunt sine dolo malo utique ea hic hodie rectissime, intellecta sunt, illis legibus populus Romanus prior non deficiet. [8] si prior defexit publico consilio dolo malo, tum illo die, Diespiter, populum Romanum sic ferito, ut ego hunc porcum hic hodie feriam; tantoque magis ferito, quanto magis potes pollesque.' [9] id ubi dixit, porcum saxo silice percussit. sua item carmina Albani suumque ius iurandum per suum dictatorem suosque sacerdotes peregerunt.

Titi Livi ab urbe condita libri editionem priman curavit Guilelmus Weissenborn editio altera auam curavit Mauritius Mueller Pars I. Libri I-X. Editio Stereotypica. Titus Livius. W. Weissenborn. H. J. Müller. Leipzig. Teubner. 1898. 1.

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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax, 1179
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