Liv. 22.1.1Iam vēr adpetēbat;Spring was now approaching; Liv. 22.1.1itaque Hannibal ex hībernīs mōvit, et nēquīquam ante cōnātus trānscendere Appennīnum intolerandīs frīgoribus et cum ingentī perīculō morātus ac metū.and so Hannibal moved out of his winter quarters, having earlier tried in vain to cross the Apennines because of the unbearable cold, and having stayed on amid great danger and fear. Liv. 22.1.2Gallī, quōs praedae populātiōnumque concīverat spēs, postquam prō eō, ut ipsī ex aliēnō agrō raperent agerentque, suās terrās sēdem bellī esse premīque utrīusque partis exercituum hībernīs vīdēre, vertērunt retrō in Hannibalem ab Rōmānīs odia;The Gauls, whom the hope of plunder and pillaging had stirred up, once they saw that instead of seizing and driving off spoil from another's land themselves, their own lands were the seat of the war and were burdened by the winter quarters of both sides' armies, turned their hatred back from the Romans upon Hannibal; Liv. 22.1.3petītusque saepe prīncipum īnsidiīs ipsōrum inter sē fraude, eādem levitāte, quā cōnsēnserant, cōnsēnsum indicantium, servātus erat et mūtandō nunc vestem nunc tegumenta capitis errōre etiam sēsē ab īnsidiīs mūnierat.and though he was often targeted by plots of their chieftains, he had been saved by their treachery towards one another, as they betrayed the conspiracy with the same fickleness with which they had conspired, and by changing now his clothing, now his head-coverings, he had also protected himself from plots through the confusion this caused.
Liv. 22.1.4Cēterum hic quoque eī timor causa fuit mātūrius movendī ex hībernīs.But this fear too was a reason for his moving out of winter quarters earlier. Liv. 22.1.4Per idem tempus Cn. Servīlius cōnsul Rōmae Īdibus Mārtiīs magistrātum iniit.At about the same time Gnaeus Servilius entered office as consul at Rome on the Ides of March. Liv. 22.1.5Ibi cum dē rē pūblicā rettulisset, redintegrāta in C. Flāminium invidia est: duōs sē cōnsulēs creāsse, ūnum habēre;There, when he had laid the state of the republic before the senate, the resentment against Gaius Flaminius was renewed: they had elected two consuls, they said, but had only one; Liv. 22.1.5quod enim illī iūstum imperium, quod auspicium esse?for what lawful authority, what auspices did that man have? Liv. 22.1.6Magistrātūs id ā domō, pūblicīs prīvātīsque penātibus, Latīnīs fēriīs āctīs, sacrificiō in monte perfectō, vōtīs rīte in Capitōliō nūncupātīs sēcum ferre;Magistrates carried these with them from home, from the public and private household gods, after the Latin Festival had been celebrated, the sacrifice on the mountain completed, and vows duly pronounced on the Capitol; Liv. 22.1.7nec prīvātum auspicia sequī, nec sine auspiciīs profectum in externō ea solō nova atque integra concipere posse.the auspices did not accompany a private citizen, nor could one who had set out without auspices take them fresh and untainted on foreign soil.
Liv. 22.1.8Augēbant metum prōdigia ex plūribus simul locīs nūntiāta: in Siciliā mīlitibus aliquot spīcula, in Sardiniā autem in mūrō circumeuntī vigiliās equitī scīpiōnem, quem manū tenuerit, ārsisse, et lītora crēbrīs ignibus fulsisse, et scūta duo sanguine sūdāsse, et mīlitēs quōsdam ictōs fulminibus, et sōlis orbem minuī vīsum, et Praeneste ārdentēs lapidēs caelō cecidisse, et Arpīs parmās in caelō vīsās pugnantemque cum lūnā sōlem, et Capēnae duās interdiū lūnās ortās, et aquās Caeretēs sanguine mīxtās flūxisse fontemque ipsum Herculis cruentīs mānāsse respersum maculīs, et Antiī metentibus cruentās in corbem spīcās cecidisse, et Faleriīs caelum findī velut magnō hiātū vīsum quāquē patuerit ingēns lūmen effulsisse, et sortēs adtenuātās ūnamque suā sponte excīdisse ita īnscrīptam "Māvors tēlum suum concutit," et per idem tempus Rōmae signum Mārtis Appiā viā ac simulācra lupōrum sūdāsse, et Capuae speciem caelī ārdentis fuisse lūnae que inter imbrem.cadentisFear was increased by prodigies reported from several places at once: that in Sicily the javelins of a number of soldiers, and in Sardinia the staff which a horseman going round the sentries on the wall held in his hand, had caught fire; and that the shores had blazed with frequent fires; and that two shields had sweated blood; and that some soldiers had been struck by lightning; and that the sun's disc had been seen to shrink; and that at Praeneste burning stones had fallen from the sky; and that at Arpi shields had been seen in the sky and the sun fighting with the moon; and that at Capena two moons had risen in the daytime; and that at Caere the waters had flowed mixed with blood, and the very spring of Hercules had run spattered with bloody spots; and that at Antium bloody ears of grain had fallen into the basket for the reapers; and that at Falerii the sky had been seen to split open as if with a great chasm, and where it had opened a vast light had shone forth; and that the oracle-lots had shrunk and one had fallen out of its own accord, inscribed thus: 'Mavors shakes his spear'; and that at the same time at Rome the statue of Mars on the Appian Way and the images of wolves had sweated; and that at Capua there had been the appearance of the sky on fire and of wool falling amid the rain.
Liv. 22.1.13Inde minōribus etiam dictū prōdigiīs fidēs habita: caprās lānātās quibusdam factās, et gallīnam in marem, gallum in fēminam sēsē vertisse.After that, credence was given even to prodigies more trivial in the telling: that some people's goats had become woolly, and that a hen had turned itself into a male and a cock into a female. Liv. 22.1.14Hīs, sīcut erant nūntiāta, expositīs auctōribusque in cūriam intrōductīs cōnsul dē religiōne patrēs cōnsuluit.When these had been set out just as they had been reported, and the witnesses brought into the senate house, the consul consulted the fathers on matters of religion. Liv. 22.1.15Dēcrētum, ut ea prōdigia partim maiōribus hostiīs partim lactentibus prōcūrārentur, et utī supplicātiō per trīduum ad omnia pulvīnāria habērētur;It was decreed that these prodigies should be expiated partly with full-grown victims, partly with sucklings, and that a supplication should be held for three days at all the couches of the gods; Liv. 22.1.16cētera, cum decemvirī librōs īnspēxissent, ut ita fierent, quem ad modum cordī esse dīvīs ē carminibus praefārentur.as for the rest, that when the decemvirs had inspected the books, things should be done as they declared from the oracles to be pleasing to the gods.
Liv. 22.1.17Decemvirōrum monitū dēcrētum est, Iovī prīmum fulmen aureum pondō quīnquāgintā fieret, et Iūnōnī Minervaeque ex argentō dōna darentur, et Iūnōnī rēgīnae in Aventīnō Iūnōnīque Sōspitae Lānuviī maiōribus hostiīs sacrificārētur, mātronaeque pecūniā conlātā, quantum cōnferre cuique commodum esset, dōnum Iūnōnī rēgīnae in Aventīnum ferrent, lectisterniumque fieret, et ut lībertīnae et ipsae, unde Fērōniae dōnum darētur, pecūniam prō facultātibus suīs cōnferrent.On the advice of the decemvirs it was decreed that first a golden thunderbolt fifty pounds in weight should be made for Jupiter, and that gifts of silver should be given to Juno and Minerva, and that sacrifice should be made with full-grown victims to Queen Juno on the Aventine and to Juno the Saviour at Lanuvium, and that the matrons, having collected money, as much as it suited each to contribute, should bring a gift to Queen Juno on the Aventine, and that a lectisternium should be held, and that the freedwomen too should contribute money according to their means, from which a gift might be given to Feronia.
Liv. 22.1.19Haec ubi facta decemvirī Ardeae in forō maiōribus hostiīs sacrificārunt.When these things had been done, the decemvirs sacrificed with full-grown victims in the forum at Ardea. Liv. 22.1.19Postrēmō Decembrī iam mēnse ad aedem Sāturnī Rōmae immolātum est lectisterniumque imperātum — et eum lectum senātōrēs strāvērunt _ et convīvium pūblicum, ac per urbem Sāturnālia diem ac noctem clāmāta, populusque eum diem fēstum habēre ac servāre in perpetuum iussus.Finally, now in the month of December, a sacrifice was offered at the temple of Saturn at Rome and a lectisternium ordered — the senators spread that couch — and a public banquet, and through the city the cry of the Saturnalia was raised for a day and a night, and the people were ordered to keep that day as a holiday and observe it for ever.