in qua cum <M.  Marcellus quintum consulatum gerens templum Honori et Virtuti, Clastidio prius deinde Syracusis potitus, nuncupatis debitum votis consecrare vellet, a collegio pontificum impeditus est, negante unam cellam duobus dis recte dicari: futurum enim, si quid prodigii in ea accidisset, ne dinosceretur utri rem divinam fieri oporteret, nec duobus nisi certis dis una sacrificari solere.
In which community, when M. Marcellus, taker first of Clastidium and then of Syracuse, desired in his fifth Consulship to consecrate a temple to Honour and Virtue in due discharge of vows taken, he was obstructed by the College of Pontiffs on the ground that a single sanctuary could not properly be dedicated to two deities, arguing that if some prodigy were to occur therein, it would be impossible to determine to which of the two an expiatory ceremony should be performed and that it was not customary to sacrifice to two deities at once, with certain exceptions.
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