The Erection of a temple to Apollo to ward off a pestilence

The pestilence during that year afforded a quiet in other matters. A temple was vowed to Apollo for the health of the people. The duumvirs did much, by direction of the books, for the purpose of appeasing the wrath of heaven and averting the plague from the people; a great mortality however was sustained in the city and country, by the death of men and of cattle promiscuously.

Literally translated by D. Spillan, A.M. M.D. London, Henry g. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden.

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