Liv. 2.36.1Lūdī forte ex īnstaurātiōne magnī Rōmae parābantur.It happened that the Great Games were being prepared at Rome to be held again. Liv. 2.36.1Īnstaurandī haec causa fuerat: lūdīs māne servum quīdam pater familiae nōndum commissō spectāculō sub furcā caesum mediō ēgerat circō;The reason for repeating them had been this: on the morning of the games, before the show had begun, a certain head of a household had driven a slave, flogged under the fork, through the middle of the Circus; Liv. 2.36.1coeptī inde lūdī, velut ea rēs nihil ad religiōnem pertinuisset.the games had then been started as if that act had nothing to do with religion. Liv. 2.36.2Haud ita multō post T. Latīniō, dē plēbe hominī, somnium fuit: vīsus Iuppiter dīcere sibi lūdīs praesultātōrem displicuisse;Not long afterwards Titus Latinius, a man of the plebs, had a dream: Jupiter seemed to tell him that the leading dancer at the games had displeased him; Liv. 2.36.3nisi magnificē īnstaurārentur iī lūdī, perīculum urbī fore;unless those games were repeated on a magnificent scale, there would be danger to the city; Liv. 2.36.3īret, ea cōnsulibus nūntiāret.he was to go and report this to the consuls.
Liv. 2.36.3Quamquam haud sānē līber erat religiōne animus, verēcundia tamen maiestātis magistrātuum cum timōre vīcit, nē in ōra hominum prō lūdibriō abīret.Although his mind was by no means free of religious scruple, yet his awe of the magistrates' majesty won out, together with the fear that he would become a laughing-stock on men's lips. Liv. 2.36.4Magnō illī ea cūnctātiō stetit;That hesitation cost him dear; Liv. 2.36.4fīlium namque intrā paucōs diēs āmīsit.for within a few days he lost his son. Liv. 2.36.4Cuius repentīnae clādis nē causa dubia esset, aegrō animī eadem illa in somnīs obversāta speciēs vīsa est rogitāre, satin magnam sprētī nūminis habēret mercēdem;So that the cause of this sudden disaster should not be in doubt, that same figure appeared before him, sick at heart, in his sleep, and seemed to ask whether he had a large enough payment for scorning the god's will; Liv. 2.36.4maiōrem īnstāre, nī eat properē ac nūntiet cōnsulibus.a larger one awaited him, unless he went quickly and told the consuls. Liv. 2.36.5Iam praesentior rēs erat.Now the matter was more pressing. Liv. 2.36.5Cūnctantem tamen ac prōlātantem ingēns vīs morbī adorta est dēbilitāte subitā.Still he delayed and put it off, and then a violent illness attacked him with sudden paralysis.
Liv. 2.36.6Tunc enimvērō deōrum īra admonuit.Then indeed the anger of the gods taught him a lesson. Liv. 2.36.6Fessus igitur malīs praeteritīs īnstantibusque cōnsiliō propinquōrum adhibitō cum vīsa atque audīta et obversātum totiēns somnō Iovem, minās īrāsque caelestēs repraesentātās cāsibus suīs exposuisset, cōnsēnsū inde haud dubiō omnium, quī aderant, in forum ad cōnsulēs lectīcā dēfertur.Worn out, therefore, by the evils past and threatening, he called his relatives into council, and when he had set out what he had seen and heard, Jupiter appearing so often in his sleep, the threats and anger of heaven made real in his own misfortunes, then with the unhesitating agreement of all who were present he is carried down in a litter to the Forum, to the consuls. Liv. 2.36.7Inde in cūriam iussū cōnsulum dēlātus eadem illa cum patribus ingentī omnium admīrātiōne ēnarrāsset, ecce aliud mīrāculum: quī captus omnibus membrīs dēlātus in cūriam esset, eum fūnctum officiō pedibus suīs domum redīsse trāditum memoriae est.From there, carried into the senate house by order of the consuls, he related the same story to the senators, to the great astonishment of all, and behold, another miracle: the tradition is that he who had been carried into the senate house disabled in every limb returned home on his own feet when he had done his duty.