§39.22.1per eos dies, quibus haec ex Hispania nuntiata sunt, ludi Taurii per biduum facti religionis causa.
During those days in which these things were reported from Spain, the Taurian games were held for two days for religious reasons.
decem deinde dies magno apparatu ludos M. Fulvius, quos voverat Aetolico bello, fecit.
Then Marcus Fulvius, for ten days with great preparation, celebrated the games which he had vowed in the Aetolian war.
§39.22.2multi artifices ex Graecia venerunt honoris eius causa.
Many artists came from Greece for the sake of his honor.
athletarum quoque certamen tum primo Romanis spectaculo fuit, et venatio data leonum et pantherarum, et prope huius saeculi copia ac varietate ludicrum celebratum est.
A contest of athletes was also then for the first time a spectacle for the Romans, and a hunt of lions and panthers was given, and the spectacle was celebrated with a wealth and variety almost equal to that of this age.
novemdiale deinde sacrum tenuit, §39.22.3quod in Piceno per triduum lapidibus pluerat, ignesque caelestes multifariam orti adussisse complurium levi adflatu vestimenta maxime dicebantur.
Then a nine-day festival took place, because it had rained stones in Picenum for three days, and heavenly fires, arising in many places, were said to have singed the garments of several people, especially on the outside, by their light touch.
§39.22.4addita et unum diem supplicatio est ex decreto pontificum, quod aedis Opis in Capitolio de caelo tacta erat.
A supplication of one day was also added by decree of the pontiffs, because the temple of Ops on the Capitol had been struck by lightning.
§39.22.5hostiis maioribus consules procurarunt urbemque lustraverunt.
The consuls performed expiation with larger victims and purified the city.
sub idem tempus et ex Umbria nuntiatum est semimarem duodecim ferme annos natum inventum.
Around the same time, it was also reported from Umbria that a hermaphrodite of about twelve years of age had been found.
id prodigium abominantes arceri Romano agro necarique quam primum iusserunt.
Abhorring this portent, they ordered that it should be removed from Roman territory and put to death as soon as possible.
§39.22.6eodem anno Galli Transalpini transgressi in Venetiam sine populatione aut bello haud procul inde, ubi nunc Aquileia est, locum oppido condendo ceperunt.
In the same year, Transalpine Gauls crossed into Venetia without plundering or war, and took possession of a place for founding a town, not far from where Aquileia now is.
§39.22.7legatis Romanis de ea re trans Alpes missis responsum est neque profectos ex auctoritate gentis eos, nec quid in Italia facerent sese scire.
When Roman envoys were sent across the Alps concerning this matter, the reply was made that they had not set out by the authority of the nation, nor did they know what they were doing in Italy.
L. Scipio ludos eo tempore, §39.22.8quos bello Antiochi vovisse sese dicebat, ex collata ad id pecunia ab regibus civitatibusque per dies decem fecit.
Lucius Scipio, at that time, celebrated for ten days the games which he said he had vowed in the war with Antiochus, using money contributed for that purpose by kings and states.
§39.22.9legatum eum post damnationem et bona vendita missum in Asiani ad dirimenda inter Antiochum et Eumenem reges certamina Valerius Antias est auctor: §39.22.10tum collatas ei pecunias congregatosque per Asiam artifices, et quorum ludorum post bellum, in quo votos diceret, mentionem non fecisset, de iis post legationem demum in senatu actum.
Valerius Antias is the authority that he, after his condemnation and the sale of his property, was sent as an envoy to Asia to settle the disputes between kings Antiochus and Eumenes: that money was then contributed to him and artists gathered throughout Asia, and concerning those games, of which he had made no mention after the war in which he said they were vowed, it was only after his embassy that the matter was discussed in the senate.