The praetors were ordered to proceed to their provinces.

Directions were given to the consuls, that before they left the city they should celebrate the great games which Titus Manlius Torquatus, when dictator, had vowed to exhibited in the fifth year, if the condition of the state remained unaltered.

Accounts of prodigies brought from several places excited fresh superstitious fears in the minds of men.

It was believed that crows had not only torn with their beaks some gold in the Capitol, but had even eaten it.

At Antium mice gnawed a golden crown.