To comply with the Dictator's orders, Salii run to the Regia and take out the hastae and the 12 scutii from Aedes Martis. Their procession started in the afternoom of the day before the Mars Vigilia (the day before to depart to the war), to end in Campus Martis at the Ara.

There Dictator Drusus is waiting along with Marcus Claudius Asiaticus, both wearing their armour.

"Mars pater, te precor quesoque uti sies volens propitius nobis.
(venerable Mars, we implore and ask you will be propitious toward us)
The sacred hasta has been shaken, two legios of your sons are ready to fight the evil Mauretanians who raised the sword against Roma's allies without any sort of declaration of war, hence they are in the wrong. Mars pater, please accept the gift of a pig, a sheep and a bull. We have chosen these because they are blemish-less white hostiae. Might their blood satisfy you."

With the public supplicationem complete, Drusus in his capacity as Pontifex Maximus confirms the ritual has been perfectly carried out. And Caius Livius Drusus examines the entrails of the beasts and declares the omens for Asiaticus' march to Mauretania to be most favourable.

Then the procession will pass through the Forum and, along the Sacra Via, move towards Porta Capena to reach the Simulacra Luporum in Clivus Martis on Via Appia. There Marcus Claudius Asiaticus will receive officially his imperium and make his vows for the mission. There Asiaticus will receive the hasta he will shake and drive into Mauretanian earth to remind Kings Bocchus and Bogud that the wrath of Roma is incoming, the time to talk is gone.