Before the consuls set out, the nine days' sacred rite was performed, as a shower of stones had fallen from the sky at Veii.
After the mention of one prodigy, others also were reported, as usual.
At Minturnae, that the temple of Jupiter and the grove of Marica, and at Atella also that a wall and gate, had been struck by lightning.
The people of Minturnae added what was more alarming, that a stream of blood had flowed at their gate.

At Capua, a wolf, which had entered at the gate by night, had torn a watchman.

These prodigies were expiated with victims of the larger kind, and a supplication for one day was made, according to a decree of the pontiffs.

The nine days' sacred rite was then performed again, because a shower of stones had been seen to fall in the armilustrum.

After the people's minds had been freed from superstitious fears, they were again disturbed by intelligence that an infant had been born at Frusino as large as a child of four years old, and not so much an object of wonder from its size, as that it was born without any certain mark of distinction whether it was male or female, which was the case two years before at Sinuessa.