Livy Page 13

utrimque constitit fides:

Both sides kept faith.

et Romani pignus pacis ex foedere restituerunt, et apud regem Etruscum non tuta solum sed honorata etiam virtus fuit, laudatamque virginem parte obsidum se donare dixit;

And the Romans gave back the pledge of peace in accordance with the treaty, and in the eyes of the Etruscan king, her virtue was not only safe, but even honoured, and having praised the maiden, he said that he was rewarding (her) with part of the hostages,

ipsa, quos vellet, legeret.

she herself should choose whom she wanted

productis omnibus elegisse inpubes dicitur;

When they had all been brought out, it is said that she selected the young boys;

quod et virginitati decorum et consensu obsidum ipsorum probabile erat, eam aetatem potissimum liberari ab hoste, quae maxime opportuna iniuriae esset.

because it was both right for a maiden and it was unanimously approved by the hostages themselves, that in delivering them from the enemy, she should give the preference to those who were of an age that particularly exposed them to injury.

pace redintegrata Romani novam in femina virtutem novo genere honoris, statua equestri, donavere:

When peace was restored, the Romans rewarded this unusual courage in a woman with an unusual kind of honour, an equestrian statue;

in summa sacra via posita virgo insidens equo.

it was placed at the top of the Sacred Way (showing) a young girl sitting on a horse.

huic tam pacatae profectioni ab urbe regis Etrusci abhorrens mos traditus ab antiquis usque ad nostram aetatem inter cetera sollemnia manet bona Porsinnae regis vendendi.

Inconsistent with this so peaceful a departure of the Etruscan king from the city, is the custom handed down from the ancients, and which continues down to our times among other usages at public sales: that of selling the goods of king Porsenna;

cuius originem moris necesse est aut inter bellum natam esse neque omissam in pace aut a mitiore crevisse principio, quam hic prae se ferat titulus bona hostiliter vendendi.

the origin of which custom must either have occurred during the war, and was not relinquished in peace, or it must have increased from a milder source than the form of expression imports, of selling the goods in a hostile manner.