Livy concludes chapter 18 of the 39 book of his Stories citing an important provision probably approved in the third senatus consultation on the Bacchanalia  and an extract of the legislative norms approved by the senate in the session of October 7 of 186 BC. These rules were later rendered executive with an edict of the consuls of which we possess an original copy found on a bronze tablet in Tiriolo (Catanzaro). Livy makes no reference to this edict of the consuls, but simply reproduces a concise summary of the provisions approved by the Senate, probably made from its source. In fact, he did not have the habit of going to consult the documents in their original, but he accepted those he found reported by the analysts. The author of the summary reported by Livy was based not on the text of the edict of the consuls, erroneously considered the text of the senatus consultation, but on the minutes of the consultation of the senate. Thus both the author of the summary reported by Livy and the consuls in formulating their edict had as their basis the same source.