§22.10.1his senatus consultis perfectis L. Cornelius Lentulus pontifex maximus consulente collegium praetore omnium primum populum consulendum de vere sacro censet: §22.10.2iniussu populi voveri non posse.
These decrees of the senate having been completed, Lucius Cornelius Lentulus, the pontifex maximus, when the praetor consulted the college, proposed that first of all the people should be consulted concerning the sacred spring: for it could not be vowed without the order of the people.
rogatus in haec verba populus: “uelitis iubeatisne haec sic fieri? si res publica populi Romani Quiritium ad quinquennium proximum, sicut velim eam salvam, servata erit hisce duellis, quod duellum populo Romano cum Carthaginiensi est quaeque duella cum Gallis sunt, qui cis Alpis sunt, tum donum duit populus Romanus Quiritium, §22.10.3quod ver attulerit ex suillo ovillo caprino bovillo grege quaeque profana erunt, Iovi fieri, ex qua die senatus populusque iusserit.
The people were asked in these words: "Is it your will and order that these things be done in this manner? If the republic of the Roman people of the Quirites, for the next five years—even as I would wish it safe—shall have been preserved in these wars, which war the Roman people has with the Carthaginian, and which wars they have with the Gauls who are on this side of the Alps, then let the Roman people of the Quirites give as a gift, whatever the spring shall have produced from the herds of swine, sheep, goats, and cattle, and which shall be profane, shall be sacrificed to Jupiter, from that day which the senate and people shall have ordered.
§22.10.4qui faciet, quando volet quaque lege volet, facito; quo modo faxit, probe factum esto.
He who shall make the offering, let him make it when he wishes and by whatever law he wishes; in whatever manner he shall have done it, let it be held as rightly done.
§22.10.5si id moritur quod fieri oportebit, profanum esto, neque scelus esto.
If that which ought to be sacrificed dies, let it be profane, and let it not be a sin.
si quis rumpet occidetve insciens, ne fraus esto.
If anyone shall injure or kill it unknowingly, let it not be a crime.
si quis clepsit, ne populo scelus esto neve cui cleptum erit.
If anyone shall have stolen it, let it not be a sin to the people nor to him from whom it was stolen.
§22.10.6si atro die faxit insciens, probe factum esto.
If anyone shall have done it unknowingly on an ill-omened day, let it be held as rightly done.
si nocte sive luce, si servus sive liber faxit, probe factum esto.
Whether he shall have done it by night or by day, whether a slave or a free man shall have done it, let it be held as rightly done.
si antidea, quam senatus populusque iusserit fieri, faxitur, eo populus solutus liber esto. ” §22.10.7eiusdem rei causa ludi magni voti aeris trecentis triginta tribus milibus trecentis triginta tribus triente, praeterea bubus Iovi trecentis, multis aliis divis bubus albis atque ceteris hostiis.
If it shall have been done before the senate and people shall have ordered it to be done, let the people be acquitted and free from liability on that account." For the same purpose, great games were vowed at a cost of three hundred and thirty-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three copper asses and one third; in addition, three hundred oxen to Jupiter, and to many other gods white oxen and other victims.
§22.10.8votis rite nuncupatis supplicatio edicta; supplicatumque iere cum coniugibus ac liberis non urbana multitudo tantuln, sed agrestium etiam quos in aliqua sua fortuna publica quoque contingebat cura.
The vows having been duly pronounced, a supplication was proclaimed; and not only the urban multitude went to offer supplication with their wives and children, but also of the country folk, whom in some fortune of their own the public concern also touched.
§22.10.9tum lectisternium per triduum habitum decemviris sacrorum curantibus.
Then a lectisternium was held for three days, under the care of the decemviri of sacred rites.
sex pulvinaria in conspectu fuerunt: Iovi ac Iunoni unum, alterum Neptuno ac Minervae, tertium Marti ac Veneri, quartum Apollini ac Dianae, quintum Vulcano ac Vestae, sextum Mercurio et Cereri.
Six couches were on view: one for Jupiter and Juno, a second for Neptune and Minerva, a third for Mars and Venus, a fourth for Apollo and Diana, a fifth for Vulcan and Vesta, a sixth for Mercury and Ceres.
tum aedes votae.
Then temples were vowed.
§22.10.10Veneri Erucinae aedem Q. Fabius Maximus dictator vovit, quia ita ex fatalibus libris editum erat, ut is voveret, cuius maximum imperium in civitate esset; Menti aedem T. Otacilius praetor vovit.
The temple to Venus of Eryx was vowed by Quintus Fabius Maximus the dictator, because it had been pronounced from the books of fate that he should vow it who held the supreme authority in the state; the temple to Mens was vowed by Titus Otacilius the praetor.