§4.61.1ταῦτα μαθόντες οἱ πρέσβεις, ἐπειδὴ σχολὴν ὁ πρεσβύτης ἔσχε καὶ προῆλθέ τις αὐτοὺς μετιών, εἰσελθόντες φράζουσι τῷ μάντει τὸ τέρας.
When the ambassadors had learned these things, as soon as the old man had leisure and someone came out to summon them, they went in and related the prodigy to the soothsayer.
σοφιζομένου δʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ διαγράφοντος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς περιφερεῖς τε γραμμὰς καὶ ἑτέρας αὖθις εὐθείας καὶ καθʼ ἓν ἕκαστον χωρίον ποιουμένου τὰς ὑπὲρ τῆς εὑρέσεως ἐρωτήσεις οὐδὲν ἐπιταραττόμενοι τὴν γνώμην οἱ πρέσβεις τὴν αὐτὴν ἐφύλαττον ἀπόκρισιν, ὥσπερ αὐτοῖς ὁ τοῦ μάντεως ὑπέθετο υἱός, τὴν Ῥώμην καὶ τὸν Ταρπήιον ὀνομάζοντες ἀεὶ λόφον καὶ τὸν ἐξηγητὴν ἀξιοῦντες μὴ σφετερίζεσθαι τὸ σημεῖον, ἀλλʼ ἀπὸ τοῦ §4.61.2κρατίστου καὶ τοῦ δικαιοτάτου λέγειν.
While he was practicing craft and drawing circular lines and other straight lines in turn on the ground, and making inquiries regarding the discovery for each single spot, the ambassadors, not at all disturbed in mind, kept the same answer, just as the son of the soothsayer had suggested to them, always naming Rome and the Tarpeian hill, and demanding that the interpreter should not appropriate the sign to himself, but speak from what was best and most just.
οὐ δυνηθεὶς δὲ παρακρούσασθαι τοὺς ἄνδρας ὁ μάντις οὐδὲ σφετερίσασθαι τὸν οἰωνὸν λέγει πρὸς αὐτούς, Ἄνδρες Ῥωμαῖοι, λέγετε πρὸς τοὺς ἑαυτῶν πολίτας, ὅτι κεφαλὴν εἵμαρται γενέσθαι συμπάσης Ἰταλίας τὸν τόπον τοῦτον, ἐν ᾧ τὴν κεφαλὴν εὕρετε. ἐξ ἐκείνου καλεῖται τοῦ χρόνου Καπιτωλῖνος ὁ λόφος ἐπὶ τῆς εὑρεθείσης ἐν αὐτῷ κεφαλῆς· κάπιτα γὰρ οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι καλοῦσι τὰς κεφαλάς. §4.61.3ταῦτα παρὰ τῶν πρεσβευσάντων ἀκούσας ὁ Ταρκύνιος ἐπέστησε τοῖς ἔργοις τοὺς τεχνίτας·
Since the soothsayer was unable to deceive the men or to appropriate the omen, he said to them: "Roman men, tell your fellow citizens that it is fated for this place, in which you found the head, to become the head of all Italy." From that time the hill is called Capitoline, after the head found on it; for the Romans call heads "capita." Tarquinius, having heard these things from the ambassadors, set the craftsmen to the works; and though he finished the greater part of the temple, he did not manage to complete the whole work before being expelled too quickly from power, but during the third consulship the city of the Romans brought it to completion.
καὶ τὰ μὲν πολλὰ ἐξειργάσατο τοῦ ναοῦ, τελειῶσαι δʼ οὐκ ἔφθασεν ἅπαν τὸ ἔργον ἐκπεσὼν τάχιον ἐκ τῆς δυναστείας, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τῆς τρίτης ὑπατείας ἡ Ῥωμαίων πόλις αὐτὸν εἰς συντέλειαν ἐξειργάσατο. ἐποιήθη δʼ ἐπὶ κρηπῖδος ὑψηλῆς βεβηκὼς ὀκτάπλεθρος τὴν περίοδον, διακοσίων ποδῶν ἔγγιστα τὴν πλευρὰν ἔχων ἑκάστην· ὀλίγον δέ τι τὸ διαλλάττον εὕροι τις ἂν τῆς ὑπεροχῆς τοῦ μήκους παρὰ τὸ πλάτος οὐδʼ ὅλων πεντεκαίδεκα ποδῶν.
It was built standing upon a high foundation, eight plethra in circumference, having each side close to two hundred feet; and one would find only a small difference in the excess of the length over the width, not even fifteen full feet.
§4.61.4ἐπὶ γὰρ τοῖς αὐτοῖς θεμελίοις ὁ μετὰ τὴν ἔμπρησιν οἰκοδομηθεὶς κατὰ τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν εὑρέθη τῇ πολυτελείᾳ τῆς ὕλης μόνον διαλλάττων τοῦ ἀρχαίου, ἐκ μὲν τοῦ κατὰ πρόσωπον μέρους τοῦ πρὸς μεσημβρίαν βλέποντος τριπλῷ περιλαμβανόμενος στοίχῳ κιόνων, ἐκ δὲ τῶν πλαγίων ἁπλῷ· ἐν δʼ αὐτῷ τρεῖς ἔνεισι σηκοὶ παράλληλοι κοινὰς ἔχοντες πλευράς, μέσος μὲν ὁ τοῦ Διός, παρʼ ἑκάτερον δὲ τὸ μέρος ὅ τε τῆς Ἥρας καὶ ὁ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ὑφʼ ἑνὸς ἀετοῦ καὶ μιᾶς στέγης καλυπτόμενοι.
For the temple built after the burning in the time of our fathers upon the same foundations was found to differ from the ancient one only in the costliness of its materials, being enclosed on the front side facing south by a triple row of columns, and on the sides by a single row; and in it there are three parallel cellae sharing common walls, the middle one being that of Jupiter, and on either side those of Juno and Athena, covered by one pediment and a single roof.