§41.16.1Latinae feriae fuere ante diem tertium nonas Maias, in quibus quia in una hostia magistratus Lanuvinus precatus non erat populo Romano Quiritium, religioni fuit.
The Latin Festival took place on the third day before the Nones of May, during which, because the magistrate of Lanuvium had not offered prayers for the Roman people of the Quirites at one sacrifice, it became a matter of religious concern.
§41.16.2id cum ad senatum relatum esset senatusque ad pontificum collegium reiecisset, pontificibus, quia non recte factae Latinae essent, instaurari Latinas placuit, Lanuvinos, quorum opera instaurandae essent, hostias praebere.
When this matter was reported to the senate, and the senate referred it to the college of pontiffs, the pontiffs decided, because the Latin Festival had not been properly conducted, that the Latin Festival should be repeated, and that the Lanuvians, through whose fault they had to be repeated, should provide the victims.
§41.16.3accesserat ad religionem, quod Cn. Cornelius consul ex monte Albano rediens concidit et, parte membrorum captus, ad Aquas Cumanas profectus ingravescente morbo Cumis decessit.
To their religious anxiety was added the fact that the consul Gnaeus Cornelius, returning from Mount Alban, collapsed, and, having lost the use of a part of his limbs, set out for the waters of Cumae, where, as his illness grew worse, he died.
§41.16.4sed inde mortuus Romam adlatus et funere magnifico elatus sepultusque est.
But from there his body was brought to Rome, and he was carried out in a magnificent funeral and buried.
§41.16.5pontifex idem fuerat.
He had also been a pontiff.
consul Q. Petilius cum primum per auspicia posset, collegae subrogando comitia habere iussus et Latinas edicere, comitia in ante diem tertium nonas Sextiles, Latinas in ante diem tertium idus Sextiles edixit.
As soon as it was possible through the auspices, the consul Quintus Petilius, having been ordered to hold the elections for choosing a substitute colleague and to proclaim the Latin Festival, proclaimed the elections for the third day before the Nones of August, and the Latin Festival for the third day before the Ides of August.
§41.16.6plenis religionum animis prodigia insuper nuntiata: Tusculi facem in caelo visam, Gabiis aedem Apollinis et privata aedificia conplura, Graviscis murum portamque de caelo tacta.
While people's minds were filled with religious anxieties, portents were reported in addition: at Tusculum a torch was seen in the sky; at Gabii the temple of Apollo and several private buildings, and at Graviscae the wall and a gate, were struck by lightning.
ea patres procurari, uti pontifices censuissent, iusserunt.
The fathers ordered these to be expiated in accordance with the decision of the pontiffs.
§41.16.7dum consules primum religiones, deinde alterum alterius mors et comitia et Latinarum instauratio inpediunt, interim C. Claudius exercitum ad Mutinam, quam Ligures priore anno ceperant, admovit.
While first religious matters hindered the consuls, and then the death of the one, and the elections and the repetition of the Latin Festival hindered the other, in the meantime Gaius Claudius moved his army to Mutina, which the Ligurians had captured the previous year.
§41.16.8intra triduum, quam oppugnare coeperat, receptam ex hostibus colonis restituit.
Within three days after he had begun to attack it, he recovered it from the enemy and restored it to the colonists.
octo milia ibi Ligurum intra muros caesa;
Eight thousand of the Ligurians were slain there within the walls.
§41.16.9litteraeque Romam extemplo scriptae, quibus non modo rem exponeret, sed etiam gloriaretur sua virtute ac felicitate neminem iam cis Alpis esse hostem populi Romani, agrique aliquantum captum, qui multis milibus hominum dividi viritim posset.
And a letter was immediately written to Rome, in which he not only explained the situation, but also boasted that through his own valor and good fortune there was now no enemy of the Roman people this side of the Alps, and that a considerable amount of land had been captured which could be distributed individually to many thousands of people.