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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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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
Lavish games and expiations for various portents are held in Rome. Meanwhile, the senate addresses the intrusion of Transalpine Gauls in Venetia, and Scipio conducts games funded by Asian contributions, raising controversy.
per eos dies, quibus haec ex Hispania nuntiata sunt, ludi Taurii per biduum facti religionis causa. decem deinde dies magno apparatu ludos M. Fulvius, quos voverat Aetolico bello, fecit.
During those days in which these things were reported from Spain, the Taurian games were held for two days for religious reasons. Then Marcus Fulvius, for ten days with great preparation, celebrated the games which he had vowed in the Aetolian war.
multi artifices ex Graecia venerunt honoris eius causa. athletarum quoque certamen tum primo Romanis spectaculo fuit, et venatio data leonum et pantherarum, et prope huius saeculi copia ac varietate ludicrum celebratum est. novemdiale deinde sacrum tenuit,1 quod in Piceno per triduum lapidibus pluerat,2 ignesque caelestes multifariam orti adussisse complurium levi adflatu vestimenta maxime dicebantur.
Many artists came from Greece for the sake of his honor. A contest of athletes was also then for the first time a spectacle for the Romans, and a hunt of lions and panthers was given, and the spectacle was celebrated with a wealth and variety almost equal to that of this age. Then a nine-day festival took place, because it had rained stones in Picenum for three days, and heavenly fires, arising in many places, were said to have singed the garments of several people, especially on the outside, by their light touch.
addita et unum diem supplicatio est ex decreto pontificum, quod aedis Opis in Capitolio de caelo tacta erat.
A supplication of one day was also added by decree of the pontiffs, because the temple of Ops on the Capitol had been struck by lightning.
hostiis maioribus consules procurarunt urbemque lustraverunt. sub idem tempus et ex Umbria nuntiatum est semimarem duodecim ferme annos natum3 inventum. id prodigium abominantes arceri Romano agro necarique quam primum iusserunt.
The consuls performed expiation with larger victims and purified the city. Around the same time, it was also reported from Umbria that a hermaphrodite of about twelve years of age had been found. Abhorring this portent, they ordered that it should be removed from Roman territory and put to death as soon as possible.
eodem anno Galli Transalpini transgressi in Venetiam sine populatione aut bello haud procul inde, ubi nunc Aquileia est, locum oppido condendo ceperunt.
In the same year, Transalpine Gauls crossed into Venetia without plundering or war, and took possession of a place for founding a town, not far from where Aquileia now is.
legatis Romanis de ea re trans Alpes missis responsum est neque profectos ex auctoritate gentis eos, nec quid in Italia facerent sese scire. L. Scipio ludos eo tempore, quos bello Antiochi vovisse sese dicebat, ex collata ad id pecunia ab regibus civitatibusque per dies decem fecit.
When Roman envoys were sent across the Alps concerning this matter, the reply was made that they had not set out by the authority of the nation, nor did they know what they were doing in Italy. Lucius Scipio, at that time, celebrated for ten days the games which he said he had vowed in the war with Antiochus, using money contributed for that purpose by kings and states.
legatum eum post damnationem et bona vendita missum in Asiam ad dirimenda inter Antiochum et Eumenem reges certamina Valerius Antias est auctor:4
Valerius Antias is the authority that he, after his condemnation and the sale of his property, was sent as an envoy to Asia to settle the disputes between kings Antiochus and Eumenes:
tum collatas ei pecunias congregatosque per Asiam artifices, et quorum ludorum post bellum, in quo votos diceret, mentionem non fecisset, de iis post legationem demum in senatu actum.5
that money was then contributed to him and artists gathered throughout Asia, and concerning those games, of which he had made no mention after the war in which he said they were vowed, it was only after his embassy that the matter was discussed in the senate.
- 39.22.2novemdiale deinde sacrum tenuit
The verb tenuit can be interpreted impersonally (or with the preceding portents as the subject, meaning "held/necessitated a nine-day festival"), or intransitively meaning "(the festival) held on/lasted". Alternatively, "the people" or "the senate" is understood as the subject.
- 39.22.3quod in Piceno per triduum lapidibus pluerat
The impersonal weather verb pluerat is accompanied by the ablative of material/means lapidibus indicating the substance that fell. It means "it had rained stones in Picenum."
- 39.22.5semimarem duodecim ferme annos natum
An idiomatic expression for age, where the accusative of duration of time annos modifies the participle natum (from nasci), literally meaning "born twelve years."
- 39.22.9Valerius Antias est auctor
This phrase serves as the main clause of the sentence, introducing the preceding accusative with infinitive structure legatum eum... missum [esse] in indirect discourse, serving to cite the source of the report.
- 39.22.10de iis post legationem demum in senatu actum
An impersonal passive infinitive construction within indirect discourse, with esse omitted from actum [esse], meaning "action was taken" or "it was discussed" concerning those things.
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