On account of this event, a supplication was performed of three days' continuance.

The other was not a mere fright, but attended with the actual loss of many lives.

In consequence of a fire breaking out in the cattle-market, the conflagration, among the houses near to the Tiber, continued through all that day and the following night, and all the shops, with wares of very great value, were reduced to ashes.
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The year was now almost at an end, while the rumours of impending hostility, and, consequently, the anxiety of the senate, daily increased.

They therefore set about adjusting the provinces of the magistrates elect, in order that they might be all the more intent on duty.