Plutarch's Lives : the translation called Dryden's . the minds of the Romans, who were about to undertake awar so near home and upon their own borders -, and re-garded the Gauls, because they had once taken their city,with more apprehension than any people, as is apparentfrom the enactment which from that time forth provided,that the high-priests should enjoy an exemption from allmilitary duty, except only in Gallic insurrections. The great preparations, also, made by the Romans forwar (for it is not reported that the people of Rome everhad at one time so many legions in arms, either before or
Plutarch's Lives : the translation called Dryden's . the minds of the Romans, who were about to undertake awar so near home and upon their own borders -, and re-garded the Gauls, because they had once taken their city,with more apprehension than any people, as is apparentfrom the enactment which from that time forth provided,that the high-priests should enjoy an exemption from allmilitary duty, except only in Gallic insurrections. The great preparations, also, made by the Romans forwar (for it is not reported that the people of Rome everhad at one time so many legions in arms, either before orsince), and their extraordinary sacrifices, were plain argu-ments of their fear. For though they were most averse tobarbarous and cruel rites, and entertained more than anynation the same pious and reverent sentiments of the godswith the Greeks; yet, when this war was coming uponthem, they then, from some prophecies in the Sibyls books,put alive underground a pair of Greeks, one male, the otherfemale; and likewise two Gauls, one of each sex, in the. Naval tialit during the lirst Punic War. MARCELLUS. 175 market callea the beast market: cfmtinuinc^ even to thisday to offer to these Greeks and Gauls certain ceremonialobservances in the month of November. In the beginning of this war, in which the Romans some-times obtahied remarkable victories, sometimes were slianie-fully beaten, nothing was done toward the deternnnationof the contest, until Flaminius and Furius, being consuls,led large forces against the Insubrians. At the time oftheir departure, the river that runs through the countiyof Picenum was seen flowing with blood ; there was a re-port, that three moons had been seen at once at Ariminum;and, in the consular assembly, the augurs declared, thatthe consuls had been unduly and inauspiciously senate, therefore, immediately sent letters to the camp,recalling the consuls to Rome with all possible speed, and5ommanding them to forbear from acting against the ene-mie
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