Chapter 42 Flashcards
Haud multo post praefectum urbis Pedanium Secundum servus ipsius interfecit, seu negata libertate, cui pretium pepigerat, sive amore exoleti incensus et dominum aemulum non tolerans.
Not much later, a slave of the man himself killed Pedanius Secundus, prefect of the city, whether with his freedom withheld for which he had contracted the price of freedom or inflamed with the love for a male prostitute and not tolerating his rival master.
ceterum cum vetere ex more familiam omnem, quae sub eodem tecto mansitaverat, ad supplicium agi oporteret, concursu plebis, quae tot innoxios protegebat,
But since in accordance to old custom, all the household slaves which had stayed under that same roof ought to be punished, with a gathering of plebs, which was protecting so many innocents,
usque ad seditionem ventum est senatusque [obsessus], in quo ipso erant studia nimiam severitatem aspernantium, pluribus nihil mutandum censentibus.
they came to the point of sedition, the besieged Senate in which itself there were factions of those reflecting excessive severity, with the majority expressing an opinion to change nothing.
ex quis C. Cassius sententiae loco in hunc modum disseruit:
From which (those arguing they should do nothing), Caius Cassius in his turn argued in this way:
