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The ''senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus'' ("senatorial decree concerning the Bacchanalia") is a notable Old Latin inscription〔CIL i2 2, 581.〕 dating to AUC 568, or 186 BC. It was discovered in 1640 at Tiriolo, southern Italy. Published by the presiding praetor, it conveys the substance of a decree of the Roman Senate prohibiting the Bacchanalia throughout all Italy, except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate. When members of the elite began to participate, information was put before the Senate by Publius Aebutius and his lover and neighbour Hispala Faecenia, who was also a well-known prostitute, as told in the ''Ab Urbe Condita Libri'' of Livy. The cult was held to be a threat to the security of the state, investigators were appointed, rewards were offered to informants, legal processes were put in place and the Senate began the official suppression of the cult throughout Italy. According to the Augustan historian Livy, the chief historical source, many committed suicide to avoid indictment.〔 (The full account is from 39.8-39.18)〕 The stated penalty for leadership was death. Livy stated that there were more executions than imprisonments.〔 〕 After the conspiracy had been quelled the Bacchanalia survived in southern Italy. ==Text== The surviving copy is inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Calabria in Southern Italy (1640), now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The text as copied from the inscription is as follows. # () MARCIUS L F S POSTUMIUS L F COS SENATUM CONSOLUERUNT N OCTOB APUD AEDEM # DUELONAI SC ARF M CLAUDI M F L VALERI P F Q MINUCI C F DE BACANALIBUS QUEI FOIDERATEI # ESENT ITA EXDEICENDUM CENSUERE NEIQUIS EORUM BACANAL HABUISE VELET SEI QUES # ESENT QUEI SIBEI DEICERENT NECESUS ESE BACANAL HABERE EEIS UTEI AD PR URBANUM # ROMAM VENIRENT DEQUE EEIS REBUS UBEI EORUM VER()A AUDITA ESENT UTEI SENATUS # NOSTER DECERNERET DUM NE MINUS SENATOR()BUS C ADESENT (E )A RES COSOLORETUR # BACAS VIR NEQUIS ADIESE VELET CEIVIS ROMANUS NEVE NOMINUS LATINI NEVE SOCIUM # QUISQUAM NISEI PR URBANUM ADIESENT ISQUE ()E SENATUOS SENTENTIAD DUM NE # MINUS SENATORIBUS C ADESENT QUOM EA RES COSOLERETUR IOUSISENT CE()SUERE # SACERDOS NEQUIS VIR ESET MAGISTER NEQUE VIR NEQUE MULIER QUISQUAM ESET # NEVE PECUNIAM QUISQUAM EORUM COMOINE(H )ABUISE VE()ET NEVE MAGISTRATUM # NEVE PRO MAGISTRATUD NEQUE VIRUM (MUL )IEREM QUISQUAM FECISE VELET # NEVE POST HAC INTER SED CONIOURA(NEV )E COMVOVISE NEVE CONSPONDISE # NEVE CONPROMESISE VELET NEVE QUISQUAM FIDEM INTER SED DEDISE VELET # SACRA IN OQVOLTOD NE QUISQUAM FECISE VELET NEVE IN POPLICOD NEVE IN # PREIVATOD NEVE EXSTRAD URBEM SACRA QUISQUAM FECISE VELET NISEI # PR URBANUM ADIESET ISQUE DE SENATUOS SENTENTIAD DUM NE MINUS # SENATORIBUS C ADESENT QUOM EA RES COSOLERETUR IOUSISENT CENSUERE # HOMINES PLOUS V OINVORSEI VIREI ATQUE MULIERES SACRA NE QUISQUAM # FECISE VELET NEVE INTER IBEI VIREI PLOUS DUOBUS MULIERIBUS PLOUS TRIBUS # ARFUISE VELENT NISEI DE PR URBANI SENATUOSQUE SENTENTIAD UTEI SUPRAD # SCRIPTUM EST HAICE UTEI IN COVENTIONID EXDEICATIS NE MINUS TRINUM # NOUNDINUM SENATUOSQUE SENTENTIAM UTEI SCIENTES ESETIS EORUM # SENTENTIA ITA FUIT SEI QUES ESENT QUEI ARVORSUM EAD FECISENT QUAM SUPRAD # SCRIPTUM EST EEIS REM CAPUTALEM FACIENDAM CENSUERE ATQUE UTEI # HOCE IN TABOLAM AHENAM INCEIDERETIS ITA SENATUS AIQUOM CENSUIT # UTEIQUE EAM FIGIER IOUBEATIS UBI FACILUMED GNOSCIER POTISIT ATQUE # UTEI EA BACANALIA SEI QUA SUNT EXSTRAD QUAM SEI QUID IBEI SACRI EST # ITA UTEI SUPRAD SCRIPTUM EST IN DIEBUS X QUIBUS VOBEIS TABELAI DATAI # ERUNT FACIATIS UTEI DISMOTA SIENT IN AGRO TEURANO 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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