This war in Spain broke out in the fifth year after the former had been ended, together with the Punic war.

The Spaniards now, for the first time, had taken arms in their own name, unconnected with any Carthaginian army or general.
Before the consuls stirred from the city, however, they were ordered, as usual, to expiate the reported prodigies.

Publius Villius, a Roman knight, on the road to Sabinia, had been killed by lightning, together with his horse.

The temple of Feronia, in the Capenatian district, had been struck by lightning.

At the temple of Moneta, the shafts of two spears had taken fire and burned.