Accepto dehinc senatus consulto Helvidium et Deme-trium in cubiculum inducit; porrectisque utriusque brachii venis, postquam cruorem effudit, humum super spargens, propius vocato quaestore, Libamus inquit Iovi liberatori.
Then, taking the decree of the senate, he led Helvidius and Demetrius into his bedroom, offered the arteries of both arms to the knife, and, when the blood had begun to flow, sprinkled it upon the ground, and called the quaestor nearer: We are making a libation, he said, to Jove the Liberator.
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