Let him who shall make an offering do it when he please, and in what manner he please; in whatsoever manner he does it, let it be considered duly done.

If that which ought to be sacrificed die, let it be unconsecrated, and let no guilt attach; if any one unwittingly wound or kill it, let it be no injury to him; if any one shall steal it, let no guilt attach to the people or to him from whom it was stolen; if any one shall unwittingly offer it on a forbidden day, let it be esteemed duly offered; also whether by night or day, whether slave or free-man perform it.

If the senate and people shall order it to be offered sooner than any person shall offer it, let the people being acquitted of it be free.

On the same account great games were vowed, at an expense of three hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three _asses_ and a third; moreover, it was decreed that sacrifice should be done to Jupiter with three hundred oxen, to many other deities with white oxen and the other victims.

The vows being duly made, a supplication was proclaimed; and not only the inhabitants of the city went with their wives and children, but such of the rustics also as, possessing any property themselves, were interested in the welfare of the state.