Kitap 5
29.10
He poured blame on the consuls also for having silently allowed the honour of the State to be compromised in the case of tribunes who had followed the instructions of the senate. By openly repeating these charges he embittered the feeling of the populace more every day.
30.1
The senate, on the other hand, he was perpetually inciting to oppose the measure.i. e., the proposal to make Veii a second Rome. They must not, he said, go down to the Forum, when the day came for voting on it, in any other temper than that of men who realised that they would have to fight for their hearths and altars, for the temples of the gods, and even for the soil on which they had been born.
30.2
As for himself, if he dared to think of his own reputation when his country's existence was at stake, it would be indeed an honour to him that the city which he had taken should become a popular resort, that that memorial of his glory should give him daily delight, that he should have before his eyes the city which had been caried in his triumphal procession,Livy is thinking here of the custom, at a later time, of carrying pictures or models of conquered towns in the triumphal procession. and that all should tread in the track of his renown.
30.3
But he considered it an offence against heaven for a city to be repeopled after it had been deserted and abandoned by the gods, or for the Roman people to dwell on a soil enslaved and
