Rufilla Story Translation
Verbena Reynoso
Every evening, the family of Lucius Caecilius Lucundus recline to have dinner. And every evening, nothing ever seems to go quite to plan. praying no one finds this because its crack but i tried to write it semi decently. enjoy ig. also my latin exam is on tuesday. help.
Together, they clambered down, hands reaching over each other, limbs briefly entwining and parting like the threads of their lives had ever been in the tapestry of history. The pattern ended with them standing side by side, a matched pair.
The cambridge latin course has a fandom, so I thought it was high time that it got a my immortal retelling. Trigger warnings will be at the beginning of each chapter. Assumes the reader has finished book 1 of clc and is somewhat far into book 2.
Lucia had been alone for as long as she could remember.
Such was the fate of the daughter of a wealthy Pompeiian family.
She was born to run a household and get married.
Her destiny was set in stone before she took her first breath.
And she was losing hope and she would ever be able to break free of the societal norms thrust upon her.
Caecilius examined you carefully, reading every change in your expression. He unconsciously fumbled with his fingers, clearly wanting to avoid this conversation with you. You redirected your gaze to meet his, eyes weighted with hurt and denial, wondering why he would keep this from you.
A pure crack story I wrote (and turned in) as a latin assignment in 7th grade. like 80% sure I got full marks for the latin translation of this as well
Technically Quintus/His-Girl-My-Latin-Class-Basically-Made-Up, but it's like, barely mentioned, so-
C. Suetonius Tranquillus was the son of a Roman knight who commanded alegion, on the side of Otho, at the battle which decided the fate of theempire in favour of Vitellius. From incidental notices in the followingHistory, we learn that he was born towards the close of the reign ofVespasian, who died in the year 79 of the Christian era. He lived till thetime of Hadrian, under whose administration he filled the office ofsecretary; until, with several others, he was dismissed for presuming onfamiliarities with the empress Sabina, of which we have no further accountthan that they were unbecoming his position in the imperial court. Howlong he survived this disgrace, which appears to have befallen him in theyear 121, we are not informed; but we find that the leisure afforded himby his retirement, was employed in the composition of numerous works, ofwhich the only portions now extant are collected in the present volume.
The plan adopted by Suetonius in his Lives of the Twelve Caesars, led himto be more diffuse on their personal conduct and habits than on publicevents. He writes Memoirs rather than History. He neither dwells on thecivil wars which sealed the fall of the Republic, nor on the militaryexpeditions which extended the frontiers of the empire; nor does heattempt to develop the causes of the great political changes which markedthe period of which he treats.
To render the works of Suetonius, as far as they are extant, complete, hisLives of eminent Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets, of which atranslation has not before appeared in English, are added. These Livesabound with anecdote and curious information connected with learning andliterary men during the period of which the author treats.
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II. His first campaign was served in Asia, on the staff of the praetor, M.Thermus; and being dispatched into Bithynia 9, to bring thence a fleet, heloitered so long at the court of Nicomedes, as to give occasion to reportsof a criminal intercourse between him and that prince; which receivedadditional credit from his hasty return to Bithynia, under the pretext ofrecovering a debt due to a freed-man, his client. The rest of his servicewas more favourable to his reputation; and (3) when Mitylene 10 wastaken by storm, he was presented by Thermus with the civic crown. 11
VII. Farther-Spain 20 fell to his lot as quaestor; when there, as hewas going the circuit of the province, by commission from the praetor, forthe administration of justice, and had reached Gades, seeing a statue ofAlexander the Great in the temple of Hercules, he sighed deeply, as ifweary of his sluggish life, for having performed no memorable actions atan age 21at which Alexander had already conquered the world. He, therefore,immediately sued for his discharge, with the view of embracing the firstopportunity, which might present itself in The City, of entering upon amore exalted career. In the stillness of the night following, he dreamtthat he lay with his own mother; but his confusion was relieved, and hishopes were raised to the highest pitch, by the interpreters of his dream,who expounded it as an omen that he should possess universal empire; for(6) that the mother who in his sleep he had found submissive to hisembraces, was no other than the earth, the common parent of all mankind.
VIII. Quitting therefore the province before the expiration of the usualterm, he betook himself to the Latin colonies, which were then eagerlyagitating the design of obtaining the freedom of Rome; and he would havestirred them up to some bold attempt, had not the consuls, to prevent anycommotion, detained for some time the legions which had been raised forservice in Cilicia. But this did not deter him from making, soonafterwards, a still greater effort within the precincts of the cityitself.
IX. For, only a few days before he entered upon the aedileship, heincurred a suspicion of having engaged in a conspiracy with MarcusCrassus, a man of consular rank; to whom were joined Publius Sylla andLucius Autronius, who, after they had been chosen consuls, were convictedof bribery. The plan of the conspirators was to fall upon the senate atthe opening of the new year, and murder as many of them as should bethought necessary; upon which, Crassus was to assume the office ofdictator, and appoint Caesar his master of the horse 22. When the commonwealthhad been thus ordered according to their pleasure, the consulship was tohave been restored to Sylla and Autronius. Mention is made of this plot byTanusius Geminus 23 in his history, by Marcus Bibulus in his edicts24,and by Curio, the father, in his orations 25. Cicero likewise seems tohint at this in a letter to Axius, where he says, that Caesar (7) had inhis consulship secured to himself that arbitrary power 26 towhich he had aspired when he was edile. Tanusius adds, that Crassus, fromremorse or fear, did not appear upon the day appointed for the massacre ofthe senate; for which reason Caesar omitted to give the signal, which,according to the plan concerted between them, he was to have made. Theagreement, Curio says, was that he should shake off the toga from hisshoulder. We have the authority of the same Curio, and of M. ActoriusNaso, for his having been likewise concerned in another conspiracy withyoung Cneius Piso; to whom, upon a suspicion of some mischief beingmeditated in the city, the province of Spain was decreed out of theregular course 27. It is said to have been agreed between them,that Piso should head a revolt in the provinces, whilst the other shouldattempt to stir up an insurrection at Rome, using as their instruments theLambrani, and the tribes beyond the Po. But the execution of this designwas frustrated in both quarters by the death of Piso.
XI. Having thus conciliated popular favour, he endeavoured, through hisinterest with some of the tribunes, to get Egypt assigned to him as aprovince, by an act of the people. The pretext alleged for the creation ofthis extraordinary government, was, that the Alexandrians had violentlyexpelled their king 32, whom the senate had complimented with thetitle of an ally and friend of the Roman people. This was generallyresented; but, notwithstanding, there was so much opposition from thefaction of the nobles, that he could not carry his point. In order,therefore, to diminish their influence by every means in his power, herestored the trophies erected in honour of Caius Marius, on account of hisvictories over Jugurtha, the Cimbri, and the Teutoni, which had beendemolished by Sylla; and when sitting in judgment upon murderers, hetreated those as assassins, who, in the late proscription, had receivedmoney from the treasury, for bringing in the heads of Roman citizens,although they were expressly excepted in the Cornelian laws.
XII. He likewise suborned some one to prefer an impeachment (9) fortreason against Caius Rabirius, by whose especial assistance the senatehad, a few years before, put down Lucius Saturninus, the seditioustribune; and being drawn by lot a judge on the trial, he condemned himwith so much animosity, that upon his appealing to the people, nocircumstance availed him so much as the extraordinary bitterness of hisjudge.
XV. Upon the first day of his praetorship, he summoned Quintus Catulus torender an account to the people respecting the repairs of the Capitol 34;proposing a decree for transferring the office of curator to anotherperson 35.But being unable to withstand the strong opposition made by thearistocratical party, whom he perceived quitting, in great numbers, theirattendance upon the new consuls 36, and fully resolved toresist his proposal, he dropped the design.
XVI. He afterwards approved himself a most resolute supporter of CaeciliusMetullus, tribune of the people, who, in spite of all opposition from hiscolleagues, had proposed some laws of a violent tendency 37,until they were both dismissed from office by a vote of the senate. Heventured, notwithstanding, to retain his post and continue in theadministration of justice; but finding that preparations were made toobstruct him by force of arms, he dismissed the lictors, threw off hisgown, and betook himself privately to his own house, with the resolutionof being quiet, in a time so unfavourable to his interests. He likewisepacified the mob, which two days afterwards flocked about him, and in ariotous manner made a voluntary tender of their assistance in thevindication of his (11) honour. This happening contrary to expectation,the senate, who met in haste, on account of the tumult, gave him theirthanks by some of the leading members of the house, and sending for him,after high commendation of his conduct, cancelled their former vote, andrestored him to his office.
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