§36.37.1principio eius anni, quo haec iam profecto ad bellum M’. Acilio, manente adhuc Romae P. §36.37.2Cornelio consule agebantur, boves duos domitos in Carinis per scalas pervenisse in tegulas aedificii proditum memoriae est.
At the beginning of that year, in which these events were being transacted, Manius Acilius having already set out for the war, while the consul Publius Cornelius still remained in Rome, it is recorded that two tamed oxen in the Carinae made their way up by the stairs to the roof of a building.
eos vivos comburi cineremque eorum deici in Tiberim haruspices iusserunt.
The haruspices ordered them to be burned alive and their ashes to be thrown into the Tiber.
§36.37.3Tarracinae et Amiterni nuntiatum est aliquotiens lapidibus pluvisse, Menturnis aedem Iovis et tabernas circa forum de caelo tactas esse, Volturni in ostio fluminis duas naves fulmine ictas conflagrasse.
At Terracina and Amiternum it was reported that it had rained stones several times; at Minturnae, that the temple of Jupiter and the shops around the forum had been struck by lightning; at the mouth of the river Volturnus, that two ships had been struck by lightning and burned.
§36.37.4eorum prodigiorum causa libros Sibyllinos ex senatus consulto decemviri cum adissent, renuntiaverunt, ieiunium instituendum Cereri esse, et id quinto quoque anno servandum; §36.37.5et ut novemdiale sacrum fieret et unum diem supplicatio esset; coronati supplicarent; et consul P. §36.37.6Cornelius, quibus diis quibusque hostiis edidissent decemviri, sacrificaret.
When the decemvirs, by decree of the senate, had consulted the Sibylline books on account of these portents, they reported that a fast ought to be instituted in honor of Ceres, and that it should be observed every fifth year; and that a nine-day festival should be held and there should be a supplication for one day, and that those who supplicated should wear wreaths; and that the consul Publius Cornelius should offer sacrifice to those gods and with those victims which the decemvirs should have prescribed.
placatis diis nunc votis rite solvendis nunc prodigiis expiandis, in provinciam proficiscitur consul, atque inde Cn. Domitium proconsulem dimisso exercitu Romam decedere iussit; ipse in agrum Boiorum legiones induxit.
The gods having been appeased, now by paying vows in due form, now by expiating portents, the consul set out for his province, and from there ordered the proconsul Gnaeus Domitius, having disbanded his army, to depart for Rome; he himself led his legions into the territory of the Boii.