§40.19.1prodigia multa foeda et Romae eo anno visa et nuntiata peregre.
In that year, many foul prodigies were both seen at Rome and reported from abroad.
§40.19.2in area Vulcani et Concordiae sanguine pluvit; et pontifices hastas motas nuntiavere, et Lanuvini simulacrum Iunonis Sospitae lacrimasse.
It rained blood in the area of Vulcan and Concordia; the pontiffs reported that the spears had moved, and the people of Lanuvium that the statue of Juno Sospita had wept.
pestilentia in agris forisque §40.19.3et conciliabulis et in urbe tanta erat, ut Libitina funeribus vix sufficeret.
A pestilence in the fields and marketplaces and meeting-places, and in the city, was so great that Libitina could scarcely supply what was necessary for the funerals.
§40.19.4his prodigiis cladibusque anxii patres decreverunt, ut et consules, quibus diis videretur, hostiis maioribus sacrificarent, et decemviri libros adirent.
Anxious at these prodigies and disasters, the senators decreed that the consuls should sacrifice with larger victims to whichever gods seemed appropriate, and that the decemvirs should consult the books.
§40.19.5eorum decreto supplicatio circa omnia pulvinaria Romae in diem unum indicta est.
By their decree, a supplication of one day was proclaimed around all the couches of the gods at Rome.
iisdem auctoribus et senatus censuit et consules edixerunt, ut per totam Italiam triduum supplicatio et feriae essent.
On their authority also, the senate resolved and the consuls proclaimed that there should be a supplication and festival of three days throughout all Italy.
§40.19.6pestilentiae tanta vis erat, ut, cum propter defectionem Corsorum bellumque ab Iliensibus concitatum in Sardinia octo milia peditum ex sociis Latini nominis placuisset scribi et trecentos equites, quos M. Pinarius praetor secum in Sardiniam traiceret, §40.19.7tantum hominum demortuum esse, tantum ubique aegrorum consules renuntiaverint, ut is numerus effici militum non potuerit.
The force of the pestilence was so great that, although, because of the revolt of the Corsicans and the war stirred up by the Ilienses in Sardinia, it had been resolved to enlist eight thousand infantry from the allies and the Latin name and three hundred cavalry, whom the praetor Marcus Pinarius was to transport with him to Sardinia, the consuls reported that so many people had died and there were so many sick everywhere that this number of soldiers could not be made up.
§40.19.8quod deerat militum, sumere a Cn. Baebio proconsule, qui Pisis hibernabat, iussus praetor atque inde in Sardiniam traicere.
The praetor was ordered to take what was lacking of the soldiers from the proconsul Gnaeus Baebius, who was wintering at Pisae, and to cross over from there into Sardinia.
L Duronio praetori, §40.19.9cui provincia Apulia evenerat, adiecta de Bacchanalibus quaestio est, cuius residua quaedam velut semina ex prioribus malis iam priore anno apparuerant; §40.19.10sed magis inchoatae apud LPupium praetorem quaestiones erant quam ad exitum ullum perductae.
To the praetor Lucius Duronius, to whom the province of Apulia had fallen, was added the inquiry concerning the Bacchanalia, of which certain remains, as it were seeds from former evils, had already appeared in the preceding year; but the inquiries under the praetor Lucius Pupius had been rather begun than brought to any issue.
id persecare novum praetorem, ne serperet iterum latius, patres iusserunt.
The senators ordered the new praetor to cut this out thoroughly, lest it should creep abroad again more widely.
§40.19.11et legem de ambitu consules ex auctoritate senatus ad populum tulerunt.
And the consuls, on the authority of the senate, proposed a law concerning bribery to the people.