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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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Various portents occurring in Rome and the expiatory measures ordered by the decemvirs are described, after which the consul Publius Cornelius sets out for his province in Gaul.
principio eius anni, quo haec iam profecto ad bellum M’. Acilio,1 manente adhuc Romae P. Cornelio consule agebantur, boves duos domitos in Carinis per scalas pervenisse in tegulas aedificii proditum memoriae est. eos vivos comburi cineremque eorum deici in Tiberim haruspices iusserunt.
At the beginning of that year, in which these events were being transacted, Manius Acilius having already set out for the war, while the consul Publius Cornelius still remained in Rome, it is recorded that two tamed oxen in the Carinae made their way up by the stairs to the roof of a building. The haruspices ordered them to be burned alive and their ashes to be thrown into the Tiber.
Tarracinae et Amiterni nuntiatum est aliquotiens lapidibus pluvisse, Menturnis aedem Iovis et tabernas circa forum de caelo tactas esse, Volturni in ostio fluminis duas naves fulmine ictas conflagrasse.
At Terracina and Amiternum it was reported that it had rained stones several times; at Minturnae, that the temple of Jupiter and the shops around the forum had been struck by lightning; at the mouth of the river Volturnus, that two ships had been struck by lightning and burned.
eorum prodigiorum causa libros Sibyllinos ex senatus consulto decemviri cum adissent, renuntiaverunt, ieiunium instituendum Cereri esse, et id quinto quoque anno2 servandum;
When the decemvirs, by decree of the senate, had consulted the Sibylline books on account of these portents, they reported that a fast ought to be instituted in honor of Ceres, and that it should be observed every fifth year;
et ut novemdiale sacrum fieret et unum diem supplicatio esset; coronati supplicarent; et consul P. Cornelius, quibus diis quibusque hostiis edidissent decemviri, sacrificaret. placatis diis nunc votis rite solvendis nunc prodigiis expiandis,3 in provinciam proficiscitur consul, atque inde Cn. Domitium proconsulem dimisso exercitu Romam decedere iussit; ipse in agrum Boiorum legiones induxit.
and that a nine-day festival should be held and there should be a supplication for one day, and that those who supplicated should wear wreaths; and that the consul Publius Cornelius should offer sacrifice to those gods and with those victims which the decemvirs should have prescribed. The gods having been appeased, now by paying vows in due form, now by expiating portents, the consul set out for his province, and from there ordered the proconsul Gnaeus Domitius, having disbanded his army, to depart for Rome; he himself led his legions into the territory of the Boii.
- 36.37.1M’. Acilio
Ablative absolute with the perfect participle profecto (from proficiscor). Together with the following clause manente... P. Cornelio, it sets the background circumstances for the main clause.
- 36.37.4quinto quoque anno
Meaning 'every fifth year'. Since Roman counting is inclusive, this practically means 'every four years'.
- 36.37.6placatis diis nunc votis rite solvendis nunc prodigiis expiandis
The phrase placatis diis is an ablative absolute. The following clauses introduced by nunc... nunc... consist of gerundives in the ablative case, expressing the means by which the gods were appeased ('now by paying vows, now by expiating portents').