When one of the consuls was immolating the first victim, the head of the liver was wanting.

These prodigies were expiated with victims of the larger kind.

The college of pontiffs gave out to what gods sacrifice was to be made.
3.

After these matters were finished, the consuls and praetors set out for their provinces.

All, however, made Africa the great object of their concern, as though it had been allotted to them; whether it was because they saw that the welfare of the state and the issue of the war turned upon the operations there, or that they might oblige Scipio, on whom the whole state was then intent.