Πόπλιος
Publius
Translated by William Hutton17 Feb 2013Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
This man, pursuing honors in an aristocratic government, acquired such great goodwill among the masses and such trust in the senate that when someone was undertaking to criticize him before the people in accordance with the customs of the Romans, and had made many accusations in a bitter fashion, he came forward and said nothing else, but said that it was not proper for the Roman people to hear anyone making accusations against Publius Cornelius Scipio, the man through whom the accusers possess the very privilege of speaking. When they heard this all the commoners immediately departed from the assembly leaving the accuser on his own.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πόπλιος· οὗτος φιλοδοξήσας ἐν ἀριστοκρατικῷ πολιτεύματι τηλικαύτην περιεποιήσατο παρὰ μὲν τοῖς ὄχλοις εὔνοιαν, παρὰ δὲ τῷ συνεδρίῳ πίστιν, ὥστε ἐν τῷ δήμῳ κρίνειν τινὸς ἐπιβαλλομένου κατὰ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἔθη, καὶ πολλὰ κατηγορήσαντος καὶ πικρῶς, ἄλλο μὲν οὐθὲν εἶπε προελθών, οὐκ ἔφη δὲ πρέπον εἶναι τῷ Ῥωμαίων δήμῳ οὐθενὸς ἀκούειν κατηγοροῦντος Ποπλίου Κορνηλίου Σκιπίωνος, δι' ὃν αὐτὴν τὴν τοῦ λέγειν ἐξουσίαν ἔχουσιν οἱ κατηγοροῦντες. ὧν ἀκούσαντες οἱ πολλοὶ παραχρῆμα διελύθησαν πάντες ἐκ τῆς ἐκκλησίας, ἀπολιπόντες τὸν κατηγοροῦντα μόνον.
Betacode
*po/plios: ou(=tos filodoch/sas e)n a)ristokratikw=| politeu/mati thlikau/thn periepoih/sato para\ me\n toi=s o)/xlois eu)/noian, para\ de\ tw=| sunedri/w| pi/stin, w(/ste e)n tw=| dh/mw| kri/nein tino\s e)piballome/nou kata\ ta\ *(rwmai/wn e)/qh, kai\ polla\ kathgorh/santos kai\ pikrw=s, a)/llo me\n ou)qe\n ei)=pe proelqw/n, ou)k e)/fh de\ pre/pon ei)=nai tw=| *(rwmai/wn dh/mw| ou)qeno\s a)kou/ein kathgorou=ntos *popli/ou *kornhli/ou *skipi/wnos, di' o(\n au)th\n th\n tou= le/gein e)cousi/an e)/xousin oi( kathgorou=ntes. w(=n a)kou/santes oi( polloi\ paraxrh=ma dielu/qhsan pa/ntes e)k th=s e)kklhsi/as, a)polipo/ntes to\n kathgorou=nta mo/non.
Notes
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Revision history3 revisions · last 23 Jun 2016
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note; another keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton