Quod animi iudicium in privatorum quoque pectoribus versatum est: urbe enim a Gallis capta, cum flamen Quirinalis virginesque Vestales sacra onere partito ferrent, easque pontem Sublicium transgressas et clivum, qui ducit ad Ianiculum, escendere incipientes L. Albanius plaustro coniugem et liberos vehens aspexisset, propior publicae religioni quam privatae caritati sui<s> ut plaustro descenderent imperavit, atque in id virgines et sacra imposita omisso coepto itinere Caere oppidum pervexit, ubi cum summa veneratione recepta.
This conviction has also been at work in the hearts of private persons. When Rome was captured by the Gauls and the Flamen of Quirinus and the Vestal Virgins were transporting the sacred objects, dividing the load between them, they crossed the Pons Sublicius and began to ascend the slope that leads to Janiculum. L. Albanius, who was carrying his wife and daughters in a cart, saw them. Public religion being closer to him than private affection, he told his family to get down from the cart and put the Virgins and cult objects into it, and abandoning the journey he had begun took them to the town of Caere, where they were received with profound reverence.
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