| Ostiam vero ideo veteres consecratam esse voluerunt, sicut Tiberim, ut si quid bello navali ageretur, id auspicato fieret ex maritima et effata urbe, ut ubique coniunctum auspici, ut Tiberis, cum colonia esset.
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The ancients wanted Ostia to be consecrated, just like the Tiber, so that if something would be settled by a battle at sea, it would be carried out, after having taken the auspices, from a maritime and speaking city, so that it would be connected in any place with the colony for the person taking the auspices, like the Tiber.
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