§36.1.1P. Cornelium Cn. filium Scipionem et M’. Acilium Glabrionem consules inito magistratu patres, §36.1.2priusquam de provinciis agerent, res divinas facere maioribus hostiis iusserunt in omnibus fanis, in quibus lectisternium maiorem partem anni fieri solet, precarique, quod senatus de novo bello in animo haberet, ut ea res senatui populoque Romano bene atque feliciter eveniret.
Upon entering office, the consuls Publius Cornelius Scipio, son of Gnaeus, and Manius Acilius Glabrio, were ordered by the senators, before they discussed the provinces, to perform sacred rites with major victims in all the shrines in which a lectisternium was accustomed to be held for the greater part of the year, and to pray that what the senate had in mind regarding the new war might turn out well and prosperously for the senate and the Roman people.
§36.1.3ea omnia sacrificia laeta fuerunt, primisque hostiis perlitatum est, et ita haruspices responderunt, eo bello terminos populi Romani propagari, victoriam ac triumphum ostendi.
All those sacrifices were favorable, and the first victims offered full atonement; and the haruspices responded thus: that by this war the boundaries of the Roman people would be extended, and victory and triumph were portended.
§36.1.4haec cum renuntiata essent, solutis religione animis patres rogationem ad populum ferri iusserunt, §36.1.5vellent iuberentne cum Antiocho rege, quique eius sectam secuti essent, bellum iniri; si ea perlata rogatio esset, tum, si ita videretur consulibus, §36.1.6rem integram ad senatum referrent.
When these things had been reported, their minds being freed from religious scruples, the senators ordered a proposal to be brought before the people, whether they wished and ordered war to be entered into with King Antiochus and those who had followed his party; if that proposal should be passed, then, if it so seemed good to the consuls, they should refer the matter afresh to the senate.
P. Cornelius eam rogationem pertulit; tum senatus decrevit, ut consules Italiam et Graeciam provincias sortirentur; cui Graecia evenisset, ut praeter eum numerum militum, quem L. Quinctius consul in eam provinciam ex auctoritate senatus scripsisset imperassetve, §36.1.7ut eum exercitum acciperet, quem M. Baebius praetor anno priore ex senatus consulto in Macedoniam traiecisset; §36.1.8et extra Italiam permissum, ut, si res postulasset, auxilia ab sociis ne supra quinque milium numerum acciperet.
Publius Cornelius carried this proposal through; then the senate decreed that the consuls should cast lots for the provinces of Italy and Greece; and that he to whom Greece should fall, in addition to that number of soldiers which the consul Lucius Quinctius had enlisted or demanded for that province on the authority of the senate, should receive that army which the praetor Marcus Baebius had transported into Macedonia in the previous year by decree of the senate; and outside Italy, permission was given that, if the situation demanded, he might accept auxiliary troops from the allies, not exceeding the number of five thousand.
L. Quinctium superioris anni consulem legari ad id bellum placuit.
It was resolved that Lucius Quinctius, the consul of the preceding year, should be sent as a lieutenant for that war.
§36.1.9alter consul, cui Italia provincia evenisset, cum Bois iussus bellum gerere utro exercitu mallet ex duobus, quos superiores consules habuissent, alterum ut mitteret Romam, eaeque urbanae legiones essent paratae quo senatus censuisset.
The other consul, to whom the province of Italy had fallen, was ordered to wage war with the Boii with whichever of the two armies he preferred of those which the previous consuls had held, and to send the other to Rome, and that these should be prepared as city legions for wherever the senate should decree.