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70. M. Lepido Munatio Planco coss. AUC 712/42 BC

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mula Romae ad duodecim portas peperit. canis aeditui mortua a cane tracta. lux ita <nocte> fulsit, ut tamquam die orto ad opus surgeretur. in Mutinensi victoriae Marianae signum meridiem spectans sua sponte conversum in septentrionem hora quarta. cum haec victimis expiarentur, soles tres circiter hora tertia diei visi, mox in unum orbem contracti. Latinis in Albano monte cum sacrificaretur, ex hum<er>o et pollice Iovis cruor manavit. per Cassium et Brutum in provinciis direptionibus sociorum bella gesta. notatum est prodigii loco fuisse, quod P. Titius praetor propter dissensiones collegae magistratum abrogavit; et ante annum est mortuus. constat neminem, qui magistratum collegae abstulerat, annum vixisse. abrogaverunt autem hi: Lucius Iunius Brutus consul Tarquinio Collatino, Tib. Gracchus M. Octavio <Cn. Octavius L. Cinnae>, Cn. Cinna tr. pl. P. Marullo, Tullius * *, Bruto et Cassio pugnam adversus Caesarem et Antonium molientibus in castris Cassii examen apium consedit. locus aruspicum iussu interclusus interius ducto vallo. vulturum et aliarum alitum, quibus stragem cadaverum pabulo est, ingens vis exercitum advolavit. puer in pompa Victoriae cultu cum ferretur, ferculo decidit. lustratione lictor perversis fascibus lauream imposuit. Brutianis in proelium egredientibus Aethiops in porta occurrit et a militibus confossus. Cassius et Brutus interierunt. At Rome a mule gave birth by the Twelve Gates. A dead bitch belonging to a temple keeper was dragged away by a dog. Light so shone at night, that it seemed that people woke up for work as though it was daybreak. At Mutina the south facing standard of the Marian victory, of its own accord, turned northward at the fourth hour. When these things were being expiated by sacrificial victims, three suns were seen at around the third hour of the day, then they drew together as one globe. At Latinum on the Alban Mount when a sacrifice was taking place, blood flowed from the shoulder and thumb of Jupiter. War was waged by Cassius and Brutus in the provinces accompanied by the plundering of the allies. It was designated as a prodigy that the praetor P. Titius had deposed a colleague because of dissension; and before the end of the year he was dead. It is agreed that no-one who had deposed a colleague had lived another year. But these men deposed others: L. Junius Brutus as consul deposed Tarquinius Collatinus, Tib. Gracchus M. Octavius; <Cn. Octavius, L. Cinna>; Cn. Cinna, as tribune of the people, P. Marullus, Tullius * *. As Brutus and Cassius were preparing their battle against Caesar and Antony a swarm of bees settled in the camp of Cassius. On the orders of the haruspices the place was encircled with the vallum further drawn in. A vast multitude of vultures and other winged creatures which feed on the carnage of dead bodies, flew up to the army. When a boy was being carried in the procession of Victory in costume, he fell off the litter. When there was a ceremony of lustration the lictor placed the laurel wreath on the fasces when they were the wrong way round. As Brutus and his army were going out to battle an Ethiopian met them at the gate and was run through by the soldiers. Cassius and Brutus perished.