§31.50.1annona quoque eo anno pervilis fuit; frumenti vim magnam ex Africa advectam aediles curules M. Claudius Marcellus et Sex. Aelius Paetus binis aeris in modios populo diviserunt.
In that year also, the price of grain was very cheap; the curule aediles, Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Sextus Aelius Paetus, distributed to the people a great quantity of grain imported from Africa, at two asses per modius.
§31.50.2et ludos Romanos magno apparatu fecerunt; diem unum instaurarunt; signa aenea quinque ex multaticio argento in aerario posuerunt.
They also celebrated the Roman Games with great splendor; they repeated them for one day; and they placed five bronze statues, paid for with money from fines, in the treasury.
§31.50.3plebeii ludi ab aedilibus L. Terentio Massiliota et Cn. Baebio Tamphilo, qui praetor designatus erat, ter toti instaurati.
The Plebeian Games were entirely repeated three times by the aediles Lucius Terentius Massiliota and Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus, who had been elected praetor.
§31.50.4et ludi funebres eo anno per quadriduum in foro mortis causa M. Valeri Laevini a Publio et Marco filiis eius facti, et munus gladiatorium datum ab iis; §31.50.5paria quinque et viginti pugnarunt.
Also in that year, funeral games were celebrated in the forum for four days because of the death of Marcus Valerius Laevinus, by his sons Publius and Marcus, and a gladiatorial show was given by them; twenty-five pairs fought.
M. Aurelius Cotta decemvir sacrorum mortuus; in eius locum M’. Acilius Glabrio suffectus.
Marcus Aurelius Cotta, a decemvir for sacred rites, died; in his place Manius Acilius Glabrio was co-opted.
§31.50.6comitiis aediles curules creati sunt forte ambo, qui statim occipere magistratum non possent.
At the elections, it happened that both curule aediles elected were unable to take office immediately.
nam C. Cornelius Cethegus absens creatus erat, cum Hispaniam obtineret provinciam; §31.50.7C. Valerius Flaccus, quem praesentem creaverant, quia flamen Dialis erat, iurare in leges non poterat; magistratum autem plus quinque dies, nisi qui iurasset in leges, non licebat gerere.
For Gaius Cornelius Cethegus was elected in his absence while he was governing the province of Spain; Gaius Valerius Flaccus, whom they had elected in his presence, was unable to take the oath of office because he was the Flamen Dialis; and it was not permitted to hold a magistracy for more than five days unless one had taken the oath.
§31.50.8petente Flacco, ut legibus solveretur, senatus decrevit, ut, si aedilis, qui pro se iuraret, arbitratu consulum daret, consules, si iis videretur, cum tribunis plebis agerent, uti ad plebem ferrent.
Upon Flaccus petitioning to be exempted from the law, the senate decreed that if the aedile should present someone to take the oath on his behalf with the approval of the consuls, the consuls, if they saw fit, should negotiate with the tribunes of the plebs to bring a proposal before the plebeian assembly.
§31.50.9datus, qui iuraret pro fratre, L. Valerius Flaccus, praetor designatus.
Lucius Valerius Flaccus, the praetor-elect, was given to take the oath for his brother.
tribuni ad plebem tulerunt, plebesque scivit, §31.50.10ut perinde esset, ac si ipse aedilis iurasset.
The tribunes brought the matter before the plebs, and the plebeians resolved that it should be just as if the aedile himself had taken the oath.
et de altero aedile scitum plebi est factum; rogantibus tribunis, quos duos in Hispaniam cum imperio ad exercitus ire iuberent, ut C. Cornelius aedilis curulis ad magistratum gerendum veniret, §31.50.11et L. Manlius Acidinus decederet de provincia multos post annos, plebes Cn. Cornelio Lentulo et L. Stertinio pro consulibus imperium esse in Hispania iussit.
A plebiscit was also made concerning the other aedile; when the tribunes asked whom they should order to go with imperium to the armies in Spain, so that Gaius Cornelius, the curule aedile, might come to enter upon his magistracy, and Lucius Manlius Acidinus might depart from the province after many years, the plebs ordered that Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus and Lucius Stertinius should have imperium in Spain as proconsuls.