Livy, Periochae 1-5

Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.

A large part of Livy's History of Rome since the Foundation is now lost, but fortunately we have an excerpt, called the Periochae, which helps us reconstruct the general scope. This translation was made by Jona Lendering.

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From Book 4

[4.1] [445 VC] After a big struggle, organized by the tribunes, and in spite of patrician opposition, the law on the marriage between patricians and plebeians was repealed.

[4.2] The tribunes...note of the plebs.

[4.3] For several years, the internal and military affairs of the Roman people were administered by this type of magistrates. 

[4.4] [443 VC] And for the first time, censors were created.

[4.5] The land that had been seized by popular judgment from the Ardeatines, was given back to settlers.

[4.6] [440 VC] When the Roman people suffered from famine, a Roman knight named Spurius Maelius paid to give much grain to the people, but when he became popular among the poor and wanted to become king, [439 VC] he was killed by Gaius Servilius Ahala, master of horse, who had been ordered to do so by dictator [Lucius] Quintius Cincinnatus. Lucius Minucius, who had denounced Maelius, was given a gilded [statue of] a bull.

[4.7] [437 VC] When Roman envoys were killed by the Fidenates, their statues were erected on the speaker's platform, because they had died while serving the state.

[4.8] [436 VC] After military tribune Cornelius Cossus had killed king Tolumnius of Veii, he returned with supreme spoils.

[4.9] [434 VC] Dictator Mamercus Aemilius limited the censorship, which until then had lasted five years, to one year and six months, he was fined by the censors.

[4.10] Fidenae was seized and settlers were sent.

[4.11] When these had been killed by rebellious Fidenates, the latter were defeated by dictator Mamercus Aemilius and Fidenae was captured.

[4.12] A conspiracy of slaves was suppressed. 

[4.13] [414 VC] Because of his cruelty, military tribune Postumius was killed by his own troops.

[4.14] [406 VC] For the first time, the soldiers received by from the state's treasury.

[4.15] Itnote also contains accounts of wars against the Volscans, Fidenates, and Faliscians.