Φάβιος Μάξιμος

Sections

1.1 – 1.2 1.3 – 1.4 1.5 – 2.3 2.4 – 2.5 3.1 – 3.3 3.4 – 3.6 4.1 – 4.2 4.3 – 4.4 4.5 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.3 5.4 – 5.5 5.6 – 6.1 6.2 – 6.3 6.4 – 6.6 6.7 – 7.1 7.2 – 7.3 7.4 – 7.5 8.1 – 8.3 8.4 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.3 9.4 – 10.2 10.3 – 10.5 11.1 – 11.2 11.3 – 11.4 12.1 – 12.3 12.4 – 13.1 13.2 – 13.4 13.5 – 14.1 14.2 – 14.3 14.4 – 15.1 15.2 – 16.1 16.2 – 16.3 16.4 – 16.6 16.7 – 17.1 17.2 – 17.4 17.5 – 18.2 18.3 – 19.1 19.2 – 19.4 19.5 – 19.6 20.1 – 20.3 20.4 – 20.6 21.1 – 21.2 21.3 – 22.1 22.2 – 22.3 22.4 – 22.6 23.1 – 23.3 24.1 – 24.2 24.3 – 25.1 25.2 – 25.3 25.4 – 26.1 26.2 – 26.4 26.5 – 27.1 27.2 – 27.2

İngilizce Yunanca

4.3 After this, he began with the gods, which is the fairest of all beginnings, and showed the people that the recent disaster was due to the neglect and scorn with which their general had treated religious rites, and not to the cowardice of those who fought under him. He thus induced them, instead of fearing their enemies, to propitiate and honour the gods. It was not that he filled them with superstition, but rather that he emboldened their valour with piety, allaying and removing the fear which their enemies inspired, with hopes of aid from the gods.

4.4 At this time, moreover, many of the so-called Sibylline books, containing secrets of service to the state, were consulted, and it is said that some of the oracular sayings therein preserved corresponded with the fortunes and events of the time. What was thus ascertained, however, could not be made public, but the dictator, in the presence of all the people, vowed to sacrifice to the gods an entire year’s increase in goats, swine, sheep, and cattle, that is, all that Italy’s mountains, plains, rivers, and meadows should breed in the coming spring. Ver sacrum (Livy xxii. 10). He likewise vowed to celebrate a musical and dramatic festival in honour of the gods, which should cost three hundred and thirty-three sestertia, plus three hundred and thirty-three denarii, plus one third of a denarius.