Please note that Mommsen uses the AUC chronology (Ab Urbe Condita), i.e. from the founding of the City of Rome. You can use this reference table to have the B.C. dates
The following poem, belonging, it is true, to a
far later age, may give an idea of it:--
Quod re sua difeidens--aspere afleicta
Parens timens heic vovit--voto hoc soluto
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Decuma facta poloucta--leibereis lubentis
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Donu danunt__hercolei--maxsume--mereto
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Semol te orant se voti--crebro con__demnes.
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That which, misfortune dreading--sharply to afflict him, An anxious
parent vowed here,--when his wish was granted, A sacred tenth for
banquet--gladly give his children to Hercules a tribute--most of
all deserving; And now they thee beseech, that--often thou wouldst
hear them.
