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5·/ The games<br />

Kalends of June , on the Capitoline, the emperor Caesar Augustus sacrificed a<br />

bull to Jupiter Optimus Maximus burnt whole for him, and in the same place Marcus<br />

Agrippa* sacrificed a second. They spoke a prayer, as follows:<br />

'Jupiter Optimus Maximus. As it is prescribed for you in those books - and for this<br />

[reason] may every good fortune attend the Roman people, the Quirites-let sacrifice be<br />

made to you with this fine bull. I beg you and pray.' The rest as above.<br />

At the sacred vessel 9<br />

were Caesar, Agrippa, Scaevola, Sentius, Lollius, Asmius Callus,<br />

Rebilus. 10<br />

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Then the Latin games n<br />

were celebrated in a wooden theatre which had been erected on<br />

the Campus Martius next to the Tiber. And in the same manner women who were<br />

mistresses of households held sellisternm, and the games which had begun to take place at<br />

night were not interrupted.<br />

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And an edict was issued: 'The quindecimviri sacris faciundis decree: Since, insofar as it<br />

accords with proper custom, and in like manner has been observed in numerous<br />

precedents, whenever there has been a rightful cause for public celebration, it has been<br />

decided that the mourning of women should be suspended; and since It seems that it is<br />

appropriate both to the honour of the gods and to the remembrance of their worship that<br />

that should apply to the time of solemn rites and games and that it should be<br />

scrupulously observed - therefore we have decided that it is incumbent on us to issue to<br />

women a decree by edict, that they should suspend mourning.'<br />

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Then by night, next to the Tiber, the emperor Caesar Augustus made sacrifice to the<br />

divine Ilythiae 12<br />

prayer:<br />

with nine cakes, nine popana, nine phthoes; 1<br />

'' he spoke the following<br />

'Ilythia. As it is prescribed for you in those books - and for this reason [may every<br />

good fortune attend] the Roman people the Quirites-\zt sacrifice be made to you with<br />

nine popana, nine cakes, nine phthoes. I beg you and pray.' The rest as above.<br />

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Four days before the Nones of June

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