Liv. 22.57.1Litterīs cōnsulis praetōrisque recitātīs cēnsuērunt praetōrem M. Claudium, quī classī ad Ōstiam stantī praeesset, Canusium ad exercitum mittendum, scrībendumque cōnsulī, ut, cum praetōrī exercitum trādidisset, prīmō quōque tempore, quantum per commodum reī pūblicae fierī posset, Rōmam venīret.When the letters of the consul and the praetor had been read out, they decreed that the praetor Marcus Claudius, who commanded the fleet lying at Ostia, should be sent to the army at Canusium, and that the consul should be written to, telling him that when he had handed over the army to the praetor, he should come to Rome at the earliest opportunity, as far as could be done consistently with the public interest. Liv. 22.57.2Territī etiam super tantās clādēs cum cēterīs prōdigiīs, tum quod duae Vestālēs eō annō, Opīmia atque Flōrōnia, stuprī compertae alterā sub terrā, utī mōs est, ad portam Collīnam necāta fuerat, altera sibimet ipsa mortem cōnscīverat.They were alarmed, besides such great disasters, both by other prodigies and because two Vestals that year, Opimia and Floronia, had been convicted of unchastity, and one had been put to death underground, as is the custom, near the Colline Gate, while the other had taken her own life.
Liv. 22.57.3L. Cantilius scrība pontificius, quōs nunc minōrēs pontificēs appellant, quī cum Flōrōniā stuprum fēcerat, ā pontifice maximō eō ūsque virgīs in comitiō caesus erat, ut inter verbera expīrāret.Lucius Cantilius, a clerk of the pontiffs (of those now called the lesser pontiffs), who had committed the offence with Floronia, had been beaten with rods by the chief pontiff in the comitium so severely that he died under the blows. Liv. 22.57.4Hoc nefās cum inter tot, ut fit, clādēs in prōdigium versum esset, decemvirī librōs adīre iussī sunt, et Q. Fabius Pictor Delphōs ad ōrāculum missus est scīscitātum, quibus precibus suppliciīsque deōs possent plācāre, et quaenam futūra fīnis tantīs clādibus foret.Since this wickedness, as happens amid so many disasters, had been turned into a prodigy, the decemvirs were ordered to consult the books, and Quintus Fabius Pictor was sent to the oracle at Delphi to ask by what prayers and offerings they could appease the gods, and what end there would be to such great disasters. Liv. 22.57.6Interim ex fātālibus librīs sacrificia aliquot extraōrdināria facta;Meanwhile, on the authority of the books of fate, some extraordinary sacrifices were performed; Liv. 22.57.6inter quae Gallus et Galla, Graecus et Graeca in forō bovāriō sub terram vīvī dēmissī sunt in locum saxō cōnsaeptum, iam ante hostiīs hūmānīs, minimē Rōmānō sacrō, inbūtum.among them a Gallic man and a Gallic woman, a Greek man and a Greek woman were buried alive in the Cattle Market, in a place walled round with stone, already stained before with human victims, a rite not at all Roman.
Liv. 22.57.7Plācātīs satis ut rēbantur, deīs M. Claudius Mārcellus ab Ōstiā mīlle et quīngentōs mīlitēs, quōs in classem scrīptōs habēbat, Rōmam, ut urbī praesidiō essent, mittit;When the gods had been appeased sufficiently, as they thought, Marcus Claudius Marcellus sends from Ostia to Rome fifteen hundred soldiers whom he had enrolled for the fleet, to serve as a garrison for the city; Liv. 22.57.8ipse, legiōne classicā — ea legiō tertia erat — cum tribūnīs mīlitum Teānum Sidicīnum praemissā, classe trāditā P. Fūriō Philō collēgae, paucōs post diēs Canusium magnīs itineribus contendit.he himself, having sent ahead the marine legion (this was the third legion) with the military tribunes to Teanum Sidicinum, and having handed over the fleet to his colleague Publius Furius Philus, a few days later hurried to Canusium by forced marches. Liv. 22.57.9Inde dictātor ex auctōritāte patrum dictus M. Iūnius et Ti. Semprōnius magister equitum dīlēctū ēdictō iūniōrēs ab annīs septemdecim et quōsdam praetextātōs scrībunt.Then Marcus Junius, named dictator on the authority of the senate, and Tiberius Sempronius, master of horse, proclaimed a levy and enrolled the younger men from seventeen years upward and some who still wore the boy's toga.
Liv. 22.57.9Quattuor ex hīs legiōnēs et mīlle equitēs effectī.Four legions and a thousand horsemen were formed from these. Liv. 22.57.10Item ad sociōs Latīnumque nōmen ad mīlitēs ex fōrmulā accipiendōs mittunt.They also send to the allies and the Latin name to receive soldiers according to the treaty schedule. Liv. 22.57.10Arma, tēla, alia parārī iubent et vetera spolia hostium dētrahunt templīs porticibusque.They order arms, missiles and other equipment to be prepared, and take down from temples and colonnades old spoils taken from the enemy. Liv. 22.57.11Et fōrmam novī dīlēctūs inopia līberōrum capitum ac necessitās dedit: octō mīlia iuvenum validōrum ex servitiīs prius scīscitantēs singulōs, vellentne mīlitāre ēmpta pūblicē armāvērunt.The shortage of free men and necessity also gave rise to a new form of levy: they armed at public expense eight thousand sturdy young men from among the slaves, bought by the state, first asking each one individually whether he wished to serve. Liv. 22.57.12Hic mīles magis placuit cum pretiō minōre redimendī captīvōs cōpia fieret.This kind of soldier was preferred, although there was the opportunity of ransoming the captives at a lower price.