Liv. 22.10.1Hīs senātūs cōnsultīs perfectīs L. Cornēlius Lentulus pontifex maximus cōnsulente collēgium praetōre omnium prīmum populum cōnsulendum dē vērē sacrō cēnset: iniussū populī vovērī nōn posse.When these decrees of the senate had been completed, Lucius Cornelius Lentulus, the pontifex maximus, when the praetor consulted the college, gives his opinion that first of all the people must be consulted about the sacred spring: it could not be vowed without the people's order. Liv. 22.10.2Rogātus in haec verba populus: " uelītis iubeātisne haec sīc fierī?The people were asked in these words: 'Do you wish and order these things to be done thus? Liv. 22.10.2Sī rēs pūblica populī Rōmānī Quirītium ad quīnquennium proximum, sīcut velim eam salvam, servāta erit hīsce duellīs, quod duellum populō Rōmānō cum Carthāginiēnsī est quaeque duella cum Gallīs sunt, quī cis Alpīs sunt, tum dōnum duit populus Rōmānus Quirītium, quod vēr attulerit ex suillō ovillō caprīnō bovillō grege quaeque profāna erunt, Iovī fierī, ex quā diē senātus populusque iusserit.If the republic of the Roman people, the Quirites, shall be preserved for the next five years, as I would wish it safe, in these wars — the war which the Roman people has with the Carthaginian, and the wars which it has with the Gauls who are on this side of the Alps — then let the Roman people, the Quirites, give as a gift whatever the spring shall have produced from the herds of swine, sheep, goats and cattle, and whatever shall not be consecrated, to be sacrificed to Jupiter from the day which the senate and people shall have ordered.
Liv. 22.10.4Quī faciet, quandō volet quāque lēge volet, facitō;Whoever shall sacrifice, let him sacrifice when he will and by what rite he will; Liv. 22.10.4quō modō faxit, probē factum Estō.in whatever way he does it, let it be deemed properly done. Liv. 22.10.5Sī id moritur quod fierī oportēbit, profānum Estō, neque scelus Estō.If the animal that ought to be sacrificed dies, let it be unconsecrated, and let there be no sin. Liv. 22.10.5Sī quis rumpet occidetve īnsciēns, nē fraus Estō.If anyone harms or kills it unknowingly, let it be no offence. Liv. 22.10.5Sī quis clepsit, nē populō scelus Estō nēve cui cleptum erit.If anyone steals it, let there be no sin on the people, nor on him from whom it was stolen. Liv. 22.10.6Sī ātrō diē faxit īnsciēns, probē factum Estō.If he sacrifices on an unlucky day unknowingly, let it be deemed properly done. Liv. 22.10.6Sī nocte sīve lūce, sī servus sīve līber faxit, probē factum Estō.Whether by night or by day, whether slave or free man sacrifices, let it be deemed properly done.
Liv. 22.10.6Sī antideā, quam senātus populusque iusserit fierī, faxitur, eō populus solūtus līber Estō."If it is sacrificed before the senate and people have ordered it to be done, let the people be absolved and free of it.' Liv. 22.10.7Eiusdem reī causā lūdī magnī vōtī aeris trecentīs trīgintā tribus mīlibus trecentīs trīgintā tribus triente, praetereā būbus Iovī trecentīs, multīs aliīs dīvīs būbus albīs atque cēterīs hostiīs.For the same purpose great games were vowed at a cost of three hundred and thirty-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three and a third asses, and in addition three hundred oxen to Jupiter, and to many other gods white oxen and other victims. Liv. 22.10.8Vōtīs rīte nūncupātīs supplicātiō ēdicta;When the vows had been duly pronounced, a supplication was proclaimed; Liv. 22.10.8supplicātumque iēre cum coniugibus ac līberīs nōn urbāna multitūdō tantum, sed agrestium etiam quōs in aliquā suā fortūnā pūblica quoque contingēbat cūra.and to offer supplication there went with their wives and children not only the city population but also those of the country folk whom, having some fortune of their own, concern for the public welfare also touched.
Liv. 22.10.9Tum lectisternium per trīduum habitum decemvirīs sacrōrum cūrantibus.Then a lectisternium was held for three days, with the decemvirs for sacred rites in charge. Liv. 22.10.9Sex pulvīnāria in cōnspectū fuērunt: Iovī ac Iūnōnī ūnum, alterum Neptūnō ac Minervae, tertium Mārtī ac Venerī, quartum Apollinī ac Diānae, quīntum Vulcānō ac Vestae, sextum Mercuriō et Cererī.Six couches were on view: one for Jupiter and Juno, a second for Neptune and Minerva, a third for Mars and Venus, a fourth for Apollo and Diana, a fifth for Vulcan and Vesta, a sixth for Mercury and Ceres. Liv. 22.10.9Tum aedēs vōtae.Then the temples were vowed. Liv. 22.10.10Venerī Erucīnae aedem Q. Fabius Maximus dictātor vōvit, quia ita ex fātālibus librīs ēditum erat, ut is vovēret, cuius maximum imperium in cīvitāte esset;A temple to Venus Erycina was vowed by Quintus Fabius Maximus the dictator, because it had been declared from the books of fate that the one who held the highest authority in the state should vow it; Liv. 22.10.10Mentī aedem T. Otacilius praetor vōvit.a temple to Mens was vowed by the praetor Titus Otacilius.