Publius Aelius Tubero and Lucius Laetorius, plebeian aediles, on account of some informality in their creation, abdicated their office, after having celebrated the games, and the banquet on occasion of the games, in honour of Jupiter, and after having placed in the Capitol three statues made out of silver paid as fines.

The dictator and master of the horse celebrated the games in honour of Ceres, in conformity with a decree of the senate.
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The Roman, together with the Carthaginian ambassadors, having arrived at Rome from Africa, the senate was assembled at the temple of Bellona; when Lucius Veturius Philo stated, to the great joy of the senate, that a battle had been fought with Hannibal, which was decisive of the fate of the Carthaginians, and that a period was at length put to that calamitous war.

He added what formed a small accession to their successes, that Vermina, the son of Syphax, had been vanquished.

He was then ordered to go forth to the public assembly, and impart the joyful tidings to the people.