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History of Rome, Vol III

BOOK XXXVI
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Likewise, Caius Licinius Lucullus, being appointed duumvir, dedicated the temple of Youth in the great circus.

This temple had been vowed sixteen years before by Marcus Livius, consul, on the day wherein he cut off Hasdrubal and his army; and the same person, when censor, in the consulate of Marcus Cornelius and Publius Sempronius, had contracted for the building of it.

Games were also exhibited on occasion of this consecration, and every thing was performed with the greater degree of religious zeal, on account of the impending war with Antiochus.
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At the beginning of the year in which those transactions passed, after Manius Acilius had gone to open the campaign, and while the other consul, Publius Cornelius, yet remained in Rome, two tame oxen, it is said, climbed up by ladders on the tiles of a house in the Carina.

The aruspices ordered them to be burned alive, and their ashes to be thrown into the Tiber.


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