Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus - Transliteration Into Classical Latin

Transliteration Into Classical Latin

The following passage uses classical reflexes of the Old Latin lexical items:

  1. Mārcius L(ūciī) f(īlius), S(purius) Postumius L(ūciī) f(īlius) cō(n)s(ulēs) senātum cōnsuluērunt N(ōnīs) Octōb(ribus), apud aedem
  2. Bellōnae. Sc(rībendō) adf(uērunt) M(ārcus) Claudi(us) M(ārcī) f(īlius), L(ūcius) Valeri(us) P(ubliī) f(īlius), Q(uīntus) Minuci(us) C (=Gaiī) f(īlius). Dē Bacchānālibus quī foederātī
  3. essent, ita ēdīcendum cēnsuēre: «Nēquis eōrum acchānal habuisse vellet. Sī quis
  4. essent, quī sibī dīcerent necesse esse Bacchānal habēre, eīs utī ad pr(aetōrem) urbānum
  5. Rōmam venīrent, dēque eīs rēbus, ubī eōrum vra audīta essent, utī senātus
  6. noster dēcerneret, dum nē minus senatōrbus C adessent, a rēs cōnsulerētur.
  7. Bacchās vir nēquis adiisse vellet cīvis Rōmānus nēve nōminis Latīnī nēve sociōrum
  8. quisquam, nisi pr(aetōrem) urbānum adiissent, isque ē senātūs sententiā, dum nē
  9. minus senātōribus C adessent, cum ea rēs cōnsulerētur, iussissent. Cēnsuēre.
  10. Sacerdōs nēquis vir esset; magister neque vir neque mulier quisquam esset.
  11. Nēve pecūniam quisquam eōrum commūneabuisse vellet; nēve magistrātum,
  12. nēve prō magistrātū, neque virum ierem quiquam fecisse vellet,
  13. nēve posthāc inter sē coniūrāse convōvisse nēve cōnspondisse
  14. nēve comprōmīsisse vellet, nēve quisquam fidem inter sē dedisse vellet.
  15. Sacra in occultō nē quisquam fēcisse vellet. Nēve in publicō nēve in
  16. prīvātō nēve extrā urbem sacra quisquam fēcisse vellet, nisi
  17. pr(aetōrem) urbānum adiisset, isque dē senātūs sententiā, dum nē minus
  18. senatōribus C adessent, cum ea rēs cōnsulerētur, iussissent. Cēnsuēre.
  19. Hominēs plūs V ūniversī virī atque mulierēs sacra nē quisquam
  20. fēcisse vellet, nēve inter ibī virī plūs duōbus, mulieribus plūs tribus
  21. adfuisse vellent, nisi dē pr(aetōris) urbānī senātūsque sententiā, utī suprā
  22. scrīptum est.» Haec utī in cōntiōne ēdīcātis nē minus trīnum
  23. nūndinum, senātūsque sententiam utī scientēs essētis, eōrum
  24. sententia ita fuit: «Sī quis essent, quī adversum ea fēcissent, quam suprā
  25. scrīptum est, eīs rem capitālem faciendam cēnsuēre». Atque utī
  26. hoc in tabulam ahēnam inciderētis, ita senātus aequum cēnsuit,
  27. utīque eam fīgī iubeātis, ubī facillimē nōscī possit; atque
  28. utī ea Bacchānālia, sī quae sunt, extrā quam sī quid ibī sacrī est,
  29. (ita utī suprā scrīptum est) in diēbus X, quibus vōbīs tabellae datae
  30. erunt, faciātis utī dīmōta sint. In agrō Teurānō.

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