LXXVIII.
Templum ut in colonia Tarraconensi (colonia Tarraconensi: modern Tarragona on the coast of NE Spain) strueretur Augusto petentibus Hispanis permissum, datumque in omnis provincias exemplum. centesimam rerum venalium (centesimam rerum venalium: lit. ‘the hundredth [part] of things for sale’, i.e. ‘the one percent sale tax’) post bella civilia institutam deprecante populo edixit Tiberius militare aerarium eo subsidio niti; (militare aerarium eo subsidio niti: ‘that the army treasury depended on that contribution’; militare aerarium was a special exchequer created by Augustus in 6 B.C. to provide support for discharged soldiers. The deponent niti (present infinitive in indir. discourse) may have the active sense in English of ‘to rely on’ or the passive sense of ‘to be supported by’.) simul imparem oneri rem publicam, nisi vicesimo militiae anno veterani dimitterentur. (imparem oneri rem publicam [esse / fore], nisi vicesimo militiae anno veterani dimitterentur: ‘that the state was unequal to the burden, unless the veterans were discharged in their twentieth year of army service’; conditional sentence in oratio obliqua after the historical perfect indicative edixit: apodosis with implied present or future infinitive, negative protasis with subjunctive, imperfect or pluperfect, as required by the consecutio temporum; cf. L. 2326 – 2327, 2322, and 1745ff.) ita proximae seditionis male consulta, (male consulta: ‘ill-advised concessions’, lit. ‘poorly thought-through measures’) quibus sedecim stipendiorum finem expresserant, abolita in posterum.