Ab Urbe Condita
T. Livius
Minus tamen plebs gravabatur se templa deum exaedificare manibus suis quam postquam et ad alia ut specie minora, sic laboris aliquanto maioris traducebantur opera, foros in circo faciendos cloacamque maximam, receptaculum omnium purgamentorum urbis, sub terra agendam....
Yet the plebeians felt less abused at having to build with their own hands the temples of the gods, than they did when they came to be transferred to other tasks also, which, while less in show, were yet rather more laborious. I mean the erection of seats in the circus, and the construction underground of the Great Sewer, as a receptacle for all the offscourings of the City....
Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from T. Livius: History of Rome (Volume I: Books 1-2), Loeb Classical Library Vol. 114, translated by B.O. Foster, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1919, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Texts"Fragmentum (cited by Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina)", 853L Ab Urbe Condita, 1.35.10 Ab Urbe Condita, 9.40.16 Ab Urbe Condita, 26.27.1-4 Ab Urbe Condita, 40.51.5 Ab Urbe Condita, 27.11.16 Ab Urbe Condita, 1.38.6 Ab Urbe Condita Periochae, 16 Aeneis, 8.361 Antiquitates Romanae, 3.67.4 Carmina, 1.2.13-16 Curculio, 470-81 Curculio, 476 De Amicitia, 96 Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 2.4.7 Fasti, 6.401-6 Forum Romanum Forum Romanum (The Imperial Period) Forum Romanum (The Republican Period) Historia Romana, 13.16 Historiae Romanae, 43.22.2 Liber Pontificalis, 2.108 Naturalis Historia, 19.23 Res Rusticae, 1.2.9 |
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