§33.26.1praetores deinde provincias sortiti, L. Apustius Fullo urbanam iurisdictionem, M’. Acilius Glabrio inter civis et peregrinos, Q. Fabius Buteo Hispaniam ulteriorem, §33.26.2Q. Minucius Thermus citeriorem, C. Laelius Siciliam, Ti. Sempronius Longus Sardiniam.
Next, the praetors drew lots for their provinces: Lucius Apustius Fullo obtained the jurisdiction of the city; Manius Acilius Glabrio, that between citizens and foreigners; Quintus Fabius Buteo, Farther Spain; Quintus Minucius Thermus, Nearer Spain; Gaius Laelius, Sicily; Tiberius Sempronius Longus, Sardinia.
§33.26.3Q. Fabio Buteoni et Q. Minucio, quibus Hispaniae provinciae evenerant; consules legiones singulas ex quattuor ab se scriptis, §33.26.4quas videretur, ut darent decretum est et socium ac Latini nominis quaterna milia peditum, trecenos equites; iique primo quoque tempore in provincias ire iussi.
For Quintus Fabius Buteo and Quintus Minucius, to whom the Spanish provinces had fallen, it was decreed that the consuls should give one legion each out of the four enrolled by them, whichever seemed best, and four thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry of the allies and the Latin name; and they were ordered to proceed to their provinces at the earliest possible moment.
§33.26.5bellum in Hispania quinto post anno motum est, quam simul cum Punico bello fuerat finitum.
The war in Spain was renewed five years after it had been finished at the same time as the Punic War.
§33.26.6priusquam aut hi praetores ad bellum prope novum, quia tum primum suo nomine sine ullo Punico exercitu aut duce ad arma ierant, proficiscerentur, aut ipsi consules ab urbe moverent, procurare, ut adsolet, prodigia, quae nuntiabantur, iussi.
Before either these praetors set out for what was almost a new war—since then for the first time they had taken up arms in their own name without any Carthaginian army or general—or the consuls themselves moved from the city, they were ordered to expiate, as was customary, the portents which were reported.
§33.26.7P. Villius eques Romanus in Sabinos proficiscens fulmine ipse equusque exanimati fuerant;
Publius Villius, a Roman knight, on his way to the Sabine country, was killed along with his horse by lightning.
§33.26.8aedis Feroniae in Capenati de caelo tacta erat; ad Monetae duarum hastarum spicula arserant; lupus Esquilina porta ingressus, frequentissima parte urbis cum in forum decurrisset, §33.26.9Tusco vico atque inde Cermalo per portam Capenam prope intactus evaserat.
The temple of Feronia in the territory of Capena was struck by lightning; at the temple of Moneta the points of two spears burned; a wolf, entering by the Esquiline gate and running down into the forum through the most crowded part of the city, escaped almost untouched through the Tuscan Street, and thence by the Cermalus, out of the Capene gate.
haec prodigia maioribus hostiis sunt procurata.
These portents were expiated with the larger victims.