LXXI.
Incessit dein religio quonam in templo locandum foret (quonam in templo locandum foret: indirect question, where quonam is partly exclamatory: ‘in which temple on earth was [the offering] to be kept?’) donum quod pro valetudine Augustae (pro valetudine Augustae: ‘for the recovery of Julia Augusta’; cf. ch. 64.) equites Romani voverant equestri Fortunae: nam etsi delubra eius deae multa in urbe, nullum tamen tali cognomento erat. repertum est aedem esse apud Antium quae sic nuncuparetur, (repertum est aedem esse apud Antium quae sic nuncuparetur: ‘it was reported that there was a shrine in Antium which was so named’; nuncuparetur is subjunctive for rel. clause in indirect discourse after repertum est. Antium is Anzio, 50 km. or 32 miles south of Rome, on the coast.) cunctasque caerimonias Italicis in oppidis templaque et numinum effigies iuris atque imperii Romani esse. ita donum apud Antium statuitur. et quoniam de religionibus tractabatur, (quoniam de religionibus tractabatur: ‘since it was deliberated about religious matters, …’; quoniam, like quia and quod, is normally with indicative; tractabatur is impersonal use of passive.) dilatum nuper responsum adversus Servium Maluginensem flaminem Dialem prompsit Caesar (dilatum nuper responsum adversus Servium Maluginensem … prompsit Caesar: ‘Tiberius made known the answer, previously deferred, with regard to Servius Maluginensis.’ Cf. ch. 59. adversus is prep. + acc.) recitavitque decretum pontificum, quotiens valetudo adversa flaminem Dialem incessisset, ut pontificis maximi arbitrio plus quam binoctium abesset, (recitavitque decretum, …quotiens valetudo adversa flaminem Dialem incessisset, ut pontificis maximi arbitrio plus quam binoctium abesset: lit. ‘he quoted the decree [mandating] that (ut) whenever (quotiens) a harmful illness would have affected a priest of Jupiter, he might be absent longer than two nights with the permission of the Pontifex Maximus.’ decretum …ut: the verb decerno, from which the noun decretum is derived is often followed by subjunctive, with or without ut. quotiens …incessisset: quotiens is similar to temporal ubi, meaning ‘every time that …’, and before imperial times was regularly followed by indicative; here the subjunctive is in any case demanded by indirect style after decretum.) dum ne diebus publici sacrificii neu saepius quam bis eundem in annum; (dum ne diebus publici sacrificii neu saepius quam bis eundem in annum: dum ne …neu …: dum in this case introduces a negative proviso: ‘provided [it was] not on days of public sacrifice, nor more than twice in the same year’) quae principe Augusto constituta satis ostendebant annuam absentiam et provinciarum administrationem dialibus non concedi. memorabaturque L. Metelli pontificis maximi exemplum qui Aulum Postumium flaminem (L. Metelli pontificis maximi … Aulum Postumium flaminem: Lucius Metellus was supreme pontiff during the first Punic war, 264 – 221 B.C.; Aulus Postumius was flamen of Mars, not Jupiter.) attinuisset. ita sors Asiae (sors Asiae: sors is used here with the sense of ‘allotment’, ‘assignment’, ‘bestowal’) in eum qui consularium Maluginensi proximus erat conlata.