History of Rome

​The censors elected in that year, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus and Aulus Postumius Albinus, revised the roll of the senate; Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the pontifex maximus, was chosen as leader of the senate.

​They expelled nine from the senate; the most notable marks of censure were those of Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis, who had been praetor in Spain two years before, Lucius Cornelius Scipio, the praetor whose jurisdiction at that time was between citizens and foreigners, and Lucius Fulvius, who was the full brother and, as Valerius Antias reports, also the co-heir of the censor.

​The consuls, having pronounced their vows on the Capitol, set out for their provinces. Of these, the senate gave Marcus Aemilius the task of suppressing the sedition of the Patavians in Venetia, whom their own envoys had reported to have flared up into internal war through factional strife.

​The envoys who had gone to Aetolia to suppress similar disturbances reported that the madness of that nation could not be restrained. The arrival of the consul brought salvation to the Patavians; and since he had nothing else to do in the province, he returned to Rome.

​The censors were the first of all to contract for the paving of streets with basalt in the city, and for laying gravel foundations and adding margins to roads outside the city, and for building bridges in many places; and for providing a stage for the aediles and praetors;

​and they also took care that starting-gates should be made in the Circus, and eggs as markers for counting the laps, and turning-posts across, and iron cages through which wild beasts might be let in, and lodgings for the consuls during the Latin festival on the Alban Mount, and that the Capitoline Clivus should be paved with basalt, ​and a portico from the temple of Saturn to the senaculum on the Capitol, and a senate-house above it.

​And outside the Trigeminina gate they paved the emporium with stone and enclosed it with palisades, and took care to repair the Aemilian portico, and made an ascent with steps from the Tiber to the emporium.

​And inside the same gate they paved a portico leading to the Aventine with basalt, and † made a path from the temple of Venus from that public ground. † ​The same censors contracted for the building of walls at Calatia and Auximum; and having sold public lands there, they spent the money which had been realized in surrounding both forums with shops.

​And the other of them, Fulvius Flaccus — for Postumius declared that he would contract for nothing except by order of the Roman senate or people — with their own money contracted for the building of a temple of Jupiter at Pesaro, at Fundi, and at Potentia, also for the bringing in of water, and for paving the road at Pesaro with basalt, ​and at Sinuessa for the adding of huts * to the aviaries, and in these places for sewers and the drawing of a wall around, and for enclosing the forum with porticoes and shops, and for building three Januses.

​These works, contracted for by only one censor, met with great gratitude from the colonists. The censorship was also diligent and severe in regulating morals. Many had their horses taken away.