June 8 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius
G N MENTI • IN • CAPIT | VI Eid. | VI.241-248, a sanctuary to the goddess Mind was dedicated during the throes of the Second Punic War.
Mens quoque numen habet. Mentis delubra videmus
vota metu belli, perfide Poene, tui.
Poene, rebellaras, et leto consulis omnes
attoniti Mauras pertimuere manus.
spem metus expulerat, cum Menti vota senatus 245
suscipit, et melior protinus illa venit.
aspicit instantes mediis sex lucibus Idus
illa dies, qua sunt vota soluta deae.
241 The mind also has its divinity. We see that a sanctuary was vowed to Mind during the terror of thy war, thou treacherous Carthaginian. Thou didst renew the war, thou Carthaginian, and, thunderstruck by the consul’s death, all dreaded the Moorish bands. Fear had driven out hope, when the Senate made vows to Mind,1 and straightway she came better disposed. The day on which the vows were paid to the goddess is separated from the coming Ides by six intermediate days.
After the defeat at Lake Trasimene, 217 B.C.