Minus miram in homine parum considerato temeritatem Ti. Gracchi gravissimi civis tristis exitus et prodigio denuntiatus nec evitatus consilio facit: consul enim cum in Lucanis sacrificasset, angues duae ex occulto prolapsae repente hostiae, quam immolaverat, adeso iocinere in easdem se latebras rettulerunt.
Such temerity in a man of little judgment is rendered less strange by the sad end of a most respected citizen, Ti. Gracchus, which a prodigy warned of but prudence did not avoid. For when as Consul he made sacrifice in Lucania, two snakes suddenly slid from hiding, ate the liver of the victim he had immolated, and withdrew into the same lair.
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