qui censor, cum lustrum conderet inque solitaurilium sacrificio scriba ex publicis tabulis sollemne ei precationis carmen praeiret, quo di immortales ut populi Romani res meliores amplioresque facerent rogabantur, satis inquit bonae et magnae sunt: itaque precor ut eas perpetuo incolumes servent, ac protinus in publicis tabulis ad hunc modum carmen emendari iussit.
When as Censor he was winding up the census and in the sacrifice of solitaurilia the scribe was reciting before him from the public tables the formula of prayer in which the immortal gods were asked to make the state of the Roman people better and greater, It is good and great enough, said Scipio. So I pray the gods to keep it safe in perpetuity. And on the words he gave order that the formula in the public tables be emended accordingly.
final_alignments\Valerius_Memorable_Book4.json