In this year a colony was settled at Vibo, in pursuance of a decree of the senate and an order of the people; three thousand seven hundred footmen, and three hundred horsemen, went out thither, conducted by the commissioners Quintus Naevius, Marcus Minucius, and Marcus Furius Crassipes.

Fifteen acres of ground were assigned to each footman, double that quantity to a horseman.

This land had been last in possession of the Bruttians, who had taken it from the Greeks.

About this time two dreadful causes of alarm happened at Rome, one of which continued long, but was less active than the other.

An earthquake lasted through thirty-eight days; during all which time there was a total cessation of business, amidst anxiety and fears.