§45.2.1postero die senatus in curia habitus, supplicationesque decretae et senatus consultum factum est, ut consul, quos praeter milites sociosque navales coniuratos haberet, dimitteret: §45.2.2de militibus sociisque navalibus dimittendis referretur, cum legati ab L. Aemilio consule, a quibus praemissus tabellarius esset, venissent.
On the following day, the senate was held in the curia, and thanksgivings were decreed, and a decree of the senate was passed that the consul should discharge those whom, besides the soldiers and naval allies, he held bound by oath; as for the discharge of the soldiers and naval allies, the matter should be referred when the legates from the consul L. Aemilius, by whom the courier had been sent ahead, had arrived.
ante diem sextum kal. §45.2.3Octobres hora fere secunda legati urbem ingressi sunt; ingentem secum occurrentium, quacumque ibant, prosequentiumque trahentes turbam in forum perrexerunt.
On the sixth day before the Kalends of October, at about the second hour, the legates entered the city; drawing along with them a huge crowd of people who met them and followed them wherever they went, they proceeded into the forum.
§45.2.4senatus forte in curia erat; eo legatos consul introduxit.
The senate happened to be in the curia; there the consul introduced the legates.
ibi tantum temporis retenti, dum exponerent, quantae regiae copiae peditum equitumque fuissent, quot milia ex iis caesa, quot capta forent, quam paucorum militum iactura tanta hostium strages facta, quam praeceps rex fugisset; §45.2.5existimari Samothraciam petiturum; paratam classem ad persequendum esse, neque terra neque mari elabi posse.
There they were detained for so long a time as was necessary to explain how great the royal forces of infantry and cavalry had been, how many thousands of them had been slain, how many captured, with how small a loss of soldiers so great a slaughter of the enemy had been made, and how precipitately the king had fled; that he was thought to be heading for Samothrace; that the fleet was ready for pursuit, and that he could not escape either by land or by sea.
§45.2.6eadem haec paulo post in contionem traducti exposuerunt; renovataque laetitia, cum consul edixisset, ut omnes aedes sacrae aperirentur, pro se quisque ex contione ad gratias agendas ire dis, §45.2.7ingentique turba non virorum modo sed etiam feminarum conpleri tota urbe deorum immortalium templa.
A little later, being brought into the public assembly, they explained these same things; and with joy renewed, when the consul had proclaimed that all the sacred temples should be opened, everyone went from the assembly to give thanks to the gods, and the temples of the immortal gods throughout the whole city were filled with a huge crowd, not only of men but also of women.
§45.2.8senatus revocatus in curiam supplicationes ob rem egregie gestam ab L. Aemilio consule in quinque dies circa omnia pulvinaria decrevit hostiisque maioribus sacrificari iussit.
The senate, recalled to the curia, decreed a thanksgiving of five days around all the couches of the gods for the glorious success achieved by the consul L. Aemilius, and ordered sacrifice to be made with larger victims.
§45.2.9naves, quae in Tiberi paratae instructaeque stabant, ut, si res posceret, in Macedoniam mitterentur, subduci et in navalibus conlocari, §45.2.10socios navalis dato annuo stipendio dimitti et cum iis omnes, qui in consulis verba iuraverant; §45.2.11et quod militum Corcyrae, Brundisi, ad mare superum aut in agro Larinati esset — omnibus his locis dispositus exercitus fuerat, cum quo, si res posceret, C. Licinius collegae ferret opem —, hos omnes milites dimitti placuit.
The ships which were standing ready and equipped in the Tiber, to be sent to Macedonia if circumstances should require, were to be hauled up and placed in the dockyards; the naval allies were to be discharged, having been paid a year's pay, and with them all who had taken the oath to the consul; and whatever soldiers were at Corcyra, Brundisium, on the upper sea, or in the territory of Larinum—for in all these places an army had been stationed, with which, if circumstances should require, C. Licinius might bring help to his colleague—it was decided that all these soldiers should be discharged.
§45.2.12supplicatio pro contione populo indicta est ex ante diem quintum idus Octobres cum eo die in quinque dies.
A thanksgiving was proclaimed to the people before the assembly, to begin on the fifth day before the Ides of October, and to last for five days from that day.