§26.23.1praetoria inde comitia habita.
Then the praetorian elections were held.
P. Manlius Vulso et L. Manlius Acidinus et C. Laetorius et L. Cincius Alimentus creati sunt.
Publius Manlius Vulso, Lucius Manlius Acidinus, Gaius Laetorius, and Lucius Cincius Alimentus were elected.
§26.23.2forte ita incidit, ut comitiis perfectis nuntiaretur T. Otacilium, quem T. Manlio, nisi interpellatus ordo comitiorum esset, conlegam absentem daturus fuisse videbatur populus, mortuum in Sicilia esse. —
It happened by chance that, after the elections were completed, news was brought that Titus Otacilius, whom the people, if the order of the elections had not been interrupted, seemed likely to have given as an absent colleague to Titus Manlius, had died in Sicily.
§26.23.3ludi Apollinares et priore anno fuerant et, eo anno ut fierent, referente Calpurnio praetore, senatus decrevit, ut in perpetuum voverentur. —
The Apollinarian games had been held in the previous year also, and, that they might be held in that year too, on the motion of the praetor Calpurnius, the senate decreed that they should be vowed for perpetuity.
§26.23.4eodem anno prodigia aliquot visa nuntiataque sunt.
In the same year, several prodigies were seen and reported.
in aede Concordiae Victoria, quae in culmine erat, fulmine icta decussaque ad Victorias, quae in antefixis erant, haesit neque inde procidit.
In the temple of Concord, the statue of Victory which was on the roof, being struck by lightning and knocked down, caught on the Victories which were on the antefixes, and did not fall from there.
§26.23.5et Anagniae et Fregellis nuntiatum est murum portasque de caelo tactas, et in foro Subertano sanguinis rivos per diem totum fluxisse, et Ereti lapidibus pluvisse, et Reate mulam peperisse.
It was reported both from Anagnia and Fregellae that the wall and gates had been struck by lightning, and that in the forum of Subertum streams of blood had flowed throughout the whole day, and that it had rained stones at Eretum, and at Reate a mule had given birth.
§26.23.6ea prodigia hostiis maioribus sunt procurata et obsecratio in unum diem populo indicta et novemdiale sacrum.
These prodigies were expiated with larger victims, and a supplication for one day was proclaimed to the people, and a nine days' festival.
— Sacerdotes publici aliquot eo anno demortui sunt, novique suffecti: §26.23.7in locum M’. Aemili Numidae decemviri sacrorum M. Aemilius Lepidus, in locum M. Pomponi Mathonis pontificis C. Livius, in locum Sp. Carvili Maximi auguris M. Servilius.
Several public priests died that year, and new ones were substituted in their places: in the place of Manius Aemilius Numida, decemvir of sacred rites, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus; in the place of Marcus Pomponius Matho, pontiff, Gaius Livius; in the place of Spurius Carvilius Maximus, augur, Marcus Servilius.
§26.23.8T. Otacilius Crassus pontufex quia exacto anno mortuus erat, ideo nominatio in locum eius non est facta.
Because the pontiff Titus Otacilius Crassus had died at the very end of the year, therefore no nomination was made to his place.
C. Claudius flamen Dialis, quod exta perperam dederat, flamonio abiit.
Gaius Claudius, the flamen of Jupiter, resigned his priesthood because he had offered the entrails improperly.