Livy concludes the eighteenth chapter of the thirty-ninth book of his Stories citing an important provision probably approved in the first senatus consultum 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.Therefore the author of the summary of the rules recommended by the consuls on Bacchanals reported by Livio was based not on the text of the edict of the consuls, erroneously believed to be the text of the senate, but on the minutes of the consultum of the senate.