Ab urbe condita

Titus Livius (Livy)

Livy. History of Rome, Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.

Several[*](Affairs in the City.) portents occurred this year and, with the view of averting them, the senate passed a decree that special intercessions should be offered for two days.

The wine and incense were provided at the public cost, and both men and women attended the religious functions in great numbers.

This time of special observance was rendered memorable by a quarrel which broke out amongst the matrons in the chapel of the Patrician Pudicitia, which is in the Forum Boarium, against the round temple of Hercules.