§32.1.1consules praetoresque, cum idibus Martiis magistratum inissent, provincias sortiti sunt.
The consuls and praetors, having entered upon their office on the Ides of March, drew lots for their provinces.
§32.1.2L. Lentulo Italia, P. Villio Macedonia, praetoribus L. Quinctio urbana, Cn. Baebio Ariminum, L. Valerio Sicilia, L. §32.1.3Villio Sardinia evenit.
To the consul Lucius Lentulus fell Italy, to Publius Villius Macedonia; of the praetors, to Lucius Quinctius fell the city jurisdiction, to Gnaeus Baebius Ariminum, to Lucius Valerius Sicily, to Lucius Villius Sardinia.
Lentulus consul novas legiones scribere iussus, Villius a P. Sulpicio exercitum accipere; §32.1.4in supplementum eius, quantum militum videretur, ut scriberet, ipsi permissum.
Lentulus the consul was ordered to enlist new legions, Villius to receive the army from Publius Sulpicius; for its reinforcement, he was permitted to enlist as many soldiers as seemed fit to him.
praetori Baebio legiones, quas C. Aurelius consul habuisset, ita decretae, ut retineret eas, donec consul novo cum exercitu succederet; §32.1.5in Galliam ubi is venisset, omnes milites exauctorati domum dimitterentur praeter quinque milia socium; iis obtineri circa Ariminum provinciam satis esse.
To the praetor Baebius, the legions which the consul Gaius Aurelius had commanded were decreed in such a way that he should retain them until the consul succeeded him with a new army; when he had arrived in Gaul, all the soldiers, except five thousand of the allies, were to be discharged and sent home; it was deemed sufficient for the province around Ariminum to be held by them.
§32.1.6prorogata imperia praetoribus prioris anni, C. Sergio, ut militibus, qui in Hispania Sicilia, Sardinia stipendia per multos annos fecissent agrum adsignandum curaret, §32.1.7Q. Minucio, ut in Bruttiis idem de coniurationibus quaestiones, quas praetor cum fide curaque exercuisset, perficeret §32.1.8et eos, quos sacrilegii compertos in vinculis Romam misisset, Locros mitteret ad supplicium, quaeque sublata ex delubro Proserpinae essent, reponenda cum piaculis curaret.
The commands of the praetors of the previous year were prolonged: to Gaius Sergius, that he should take care of assigning land to the soldiers who had served for many years in Spain, Sicily, and Sardinia; to Quintus Minucius, that he should himself complete in the Bruttian territory the inquiries concerning conspiracies which he, as praetor, had conducted with fidelity and care, and that he should send those whom he had sent to Rome in chains, having been found guilty of sacrilege, to Locri for punishment, and should take care that what had been taken from the shrine of Proserpina should be replaced with expiatory offerings.
§32.1.9feriae Latinae pontificum decreto instauratae sunt, quod legati ab Ardea questi in senatu erant sibi in monte Albano Latinis carnem, ut adsolet, data non esse.
The Latin Festival was repeated by a decree of the pontiffs, because envoys from Ardea had complained in the senate that the meat of the Latin festival on the Alban Mount had not been given to them as was customary.
§32.1.10ab Suessa nuntiatum est duas portas quodque inter eas muri erat de caelo tactum; et Formiani legati aedem Iovis, item Ostienses aedem Iovis, et Veliterni Apollinis et Sangus aedes, et in Herculis aede capillum enatum; §32.1.11et ex Bruttiis ab Q. Minucio propraetore scriptum eculeum cum quinque pedibus, pullos gallinaceos tris cum ternis pedibus natos esse.
From Suessa it was reported that two gates and the wall between them had been struck by lightning; and the Formian envoys reported that the temple of Jupiter, likewise the Ostians that the temple of Jupiter, and the Veliternians that the temples of Apollo and Sangus had been struck, and that in the temple of Hercules hair had grown; and from the Bruttians, it was written by the propraetor Quintus Minucius that a colt with five feet and three chickens with three feet each had been born.
— §32.1.12a P. Sulpicio proconsule ex Macedonia litterae adlatae, in quibus inter cetera scriptum erat lauream in puppi navis longae enatam.
Letters were brought from Macedonia from the proconsul Publius Sulpicius, in which among other things it was written that a laurel had grown on the stern of a warship.
§32.1.13priorum prodigiorum causa senatus censuerat, ut consules maioribus hostiis, quibus diis videretur, sacrificarent; §32.1.14ob hoc unum prodigium haruspices in senatum vocati, atque ex responso eorum supplicatio populo in diem unum indicta et ad omnia pulvinaria res divinae factae.
Because of the former prodigies, the senate had decreed that the consuls should sacrifice with larger victims to whichever gods seemed fit; on account of this single prodigy, the haruspices were called into the senate, and according to their response, a supplication of one day was proclaimed for the people and sacred rites were performed at all the shrines.