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- Titi Livi ab urbe condita libri editionem priman, Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.
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The narrative describes the celebration of games by the consul Publius Cornelius Scipio and the dedication of the temples of the Great Mother and Youth in Rome.
alter consul P. Cornelius Scipio, Galliam provinciam sortitus, priusquam ad bellum, quod cum Bois gerendum erat, proficisceretur, postulavit ab senatu, ut pecunia sibi decerneretur ad ludos, quos praetor in Hispania inter ipsum discrimen pugnae vovisset.
The other consul, Publius Cornelius Scipio, having obtained the province of Gaul by lot, before he set out for the war which was to be waged with the Boii, demanded of the senate that money should be decreed to him for the games which he had vowed when praetor in Spain during the very crisis of battle.
novum atque iniquum postulare1 est visus; censuerunt ergo, quos ludos inconsulto senatu ex sua unius sententia vovisset, eos vel de manubiis, si quam pecuniam ad id reservasset, vel sua ipse impensa faceret.2 eos ludos per dies decem P. Cornelius fecit.
He seemed to make an unprecedented and unjust demand; therefore, they decreed that whatever games he had vowed without consulting the senate, on his own single opinion, he should celebrate either from the spoils, if he had reserved any money for that purpose, or at his own expense. Publius Cornelius celebrated those games for ten days.
per idem fere tempus aedes Matris Magnae dedicata est, quam deam is P. Cornelius3 advectam ex Asia P. Cornelio Scipione, cui postea Africano fuit cognomen, P. Licinio consulibus in Palatium a mari detulerat.
At about the same time, the temple of the Great Mother was dedicated. This goddess, when she had been brought from Asia, during the consulship of Publius Cornelius Scipio (who was afterwards surnamed Africanus) and Publius Licinius, this Publius Cornelius had conveyed from the sea to the Palatine.
locaverant aedem faciendam ex senatus consulto M. Livius C. Claudius censores M. Cornelio P. Sempronio consulibus; tredecim annis postquam locata erat, dedicavit eam M. Iunius Brutus, ludique ob dedicationem eius facti, quos primos scenicos fuisse4 Antias Valerius est auctor, Megalesia appellatos.
The censors Marcus Livius and Gaius Claudius, in the consulship of Marcus Cornelius and Publius Sempronius, had contracted for the building of the temple by decree of the senate; thirteen years after it had been contracted for, Marcus Junius Brutus dedicated it, and games were held on account of its dedication, which Valerius Antias is the authority for having been the first scenic games and called the Megalesia.
item Iuventatis aedem in circo maximo C. Licinius Lucullus duumvir dedicavit.
Likewise, Gaius Licinius Lucullus, a duumvir, dedicated the temple of Youth in the Circus Maximus.
voverat eam sexdecim annis ante M. Livius consul, quo die Hasdrubalem exercitumque eius cecidit; idem censor eam faciendam locavit M. Cornelio P. Sempronio consulibus.5 huius quoque dedicandae causa ludi facti, et eo omnia cum maiore religione facta, quod novum cum Antiocho instabat bellum.
The consul Marcus Livius had vowed it sixteen years before, on the day he slew Hasdrubal and his army; the same man as censor contracted for its building in the consulship of Marcus Cornelius and Publius Sempronius. For the dedication of this temple also, games were held, and everything was performed with greater religious solemnity for the reason that a new war with Antiochus was imminent.
- 36.36.2postulare
The infinitive postulare functions as the subject complement with the verb visus est ("he seemed to demand").
- 36.36.2faceret
A subjunctive (imperfect, due to sequence of tenses) in a clause dependent on the main verb censuerunt, with the conjunction ut omitted ("they decreed that he should make...").
- 36.36.3is P. Cornelius
It is necessary to distinguish the two individuals named "Publius Cornelius" in this sentence. The subject is P. Cornelius refers to Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica (consul in 191 BC), the subject of section 1. On the other hand, the ablative absolute P. Cornelio Scipione... consulibus refers to Scipio Africanus, who was consul in 205 BC.
- 36.36.4quos primos scenicos fuisse
An accusative with infinitive construction dependent on the main clause Antias Valerius est auctor ("Valerius Antias is the authority [for the statement that...]"). The relative pronoun quos (referring back to ludi) acts as the subject of the infinitive fuisse, and Megalesia appellatos [esse] is also part of this indirect speech construction.
- 36.36.7Cornelio P. Sempronio consulibus
An ablative absolute (M. Cornelio P. Sempronio consulibus, referring to the year 204 BC), continuing from the abbreviation M. at the end of section 6. The division of sections places Cornelio at the beginning of section 7.