§41.21.1M. Atilio praetori provincia Sardinia obvenerat; §41.21.2sed cum legione nova, quam consules conscripserant, quinque milibus peditum, trecentis equitibus in Corsicam iussus est transire.
M. Atilius the praetor had obtained the province of Sardinia by lot; but he was ordered to cross over to Corsica with a new legion which the consuls had enrolled, consisting of five thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry.
dum is ibi bellum gereret, Cornelio prorogatum imperium, uti obtineret Sardiniam.
While he was waging war there, the command of Cornelius was prolonged, that he might retain Sardinia.
§41.21.3Cn.
To Cn.
Servilio Caepioni in Hispaniam ulteriorem et P. Furio Philo in citeriorem tria milia peditum Romanorum, equites centum quinquaginta, et socium Latini nominis quinque milia peditum, trecenti equites, Sicilia L. Claudio sine supplemento decreta.
Servilius Caepio for Farther Spain, and to P. Furius Philus for Hither Spain, three thousand Roman infantry and one hundred and fifty cavalry, and five thousand infantry of the Latin allies with three hundred cavalry, were decreed; Sicily was decreed to L. Claudius without reinforcements.
§41.21.4duas praeterea legiones consules scribere iussi cum iusto numero peditum equitumque, et decem milia peditum sociis imperare et sescentos equites.
Besides, the consuls were ordered to enroll two legions with the regular number of infantry and cavalry, and to demand ten thousand infantry and six hundred cavalry from the allies.
§41.21.5dilectus consulibus eo difficilior erat, quod pestilentia, quae priore anno in boves ingruerat, eo verterat in hominum morbos.
The levy was the more difficult for the consuls because the pestilence, which in the previous year had fallen upon the cattle, had in this year turned into diseases among men.
qui inciderant, haud facile septimum diem superabant; qui superaverant, longinquo, maxime quartanae, inplicabantur morbo.
Those who had fallen ill scarcely survived the seventh day; and those who did survive were afflicted with a lingering disease, especially the quartan ague.
§41.21.6servitia maxime moriebantur; eorum strages per omnis vias insepultorum erat.
The slaves died in the greatest numbers; their unburied corpses lay in heaps along all the roads.
ne liberorum quidem funeribus Libitina sufficiebat.
Not even for the funerals of free citizens was Libitina sufficient.
cadavera intacta a canibus ac volturibus tabes absumebat;
The corpses, untouched by dogs and vultures, were consumed by decay.
§41.21.7satisque constabat nec illo nec priore anno in tanta strage boum hominumque volturium usquam visum.
And it was well established that neither in that nor in the previous year, in so great a slaughter of cattle and men, was a vulture seen anywhere.
§41.21.8sacerdotes publici ea pestilentia mortui sunt Cn.
The public priests who died of that pestilence were Cn.
Servilius Caepio pontifex, pater praetoris, et Ti.
Servilius Caepio, the pontiff, father of the praetor; Ti.
Sempronius Ti.
Sempronius Longus, son of Tiberius, a decemvir for sacred rites; P.
filius Longus decemvir sacrorum et P. Aelius Paetus augur et Ti.
Aelius Paetus, the augur; Ti.
Sempronius Gracchus et C. Mamilius Atellus curio maximus et M. Sempronius Tuditanus pontifex.
Sempronius Gracchus; C. Mamilius Atellus, the curio maximus; and M. Sempronius Tuditanus, the pontiff.
pontifices suffecti sunt C. Sulpicius Galba in locum Tuditani.
C. Sulpicius Galba was appointed pontiff in place of Tuditanus.
§41.21.9augures suffecti sunt in Gracchi locum T. Veturius Gracchus Sempronianus, in P. Aeli Q. Aelius Paetus.
The augurs appointed were T. Veturius Gracchus Sempronianus in place of Gracchus, and Q. Aelius Paetus in place of P. Aelius.
decemvir sacrorum C. Sempronius Longus, curio maximus C. Scribonius Curio sufficitur.
C. Sempronius Longus was appointed a decemvir for sacred rites, and C. Scribonius Curio was appointed curio maximus.
§41.21.10cum pestilentiae finis non fieret, senatus decrevit, uti decemviri libros Sibyllinos adirent.
Since there was no end to the pestilence, the senate decreed that the decemvirs should consult the Sibylline books.
§41.21.11ex decreto eorum diem unum supplicatio fuit, et Q. Marcio Philippo verba praeeunte populus in foro votum concepit, si morbus pestilentiaque ex agro Romano emota esset, biduum ferias ac supplicationem se habiturum.
According to their decree there was a supplication for one day, and, Q. Marcius Philippus dictating the words, the people in the forum made a vow that, if the disease and pestilence should be removed from the Roman territory, they would keep a festival and supplication for two days.
§41.21.12in Veienti agro biceps natus puer, et Sinuessae unimanus, et Auximi puella cum dentibus, et arcus interdiu sereno caelo super aedem Saturni in foro Romano intentus, §41.21.13et tres simul soles effulserunt, et faces eadem nocte plures per caelum lapsae sunt, et Lanuvini Caeritesque anguem in oppido suo iubatum, aureis maculis sparsum, apparuisse adfirmabant, et in agro Campano bovem locutum esse satis constabat.
In the territory of Veii a boy was born with two heads, and at Sinuessa a one-handed boy, and at Auximum a girl with teeth, and a rainbow was seen in the daytime in a clear sky over the temple of Saturn in the Roman forum stretched out, and three suns shone at the same time, and several torches glided through the sky on the same night, and the people of Lanuvium and Caere asserted that a crested serpent, speckled with golden spots, had appeared in their town, and it was well established that in the Campanian territory an ox had spoken.