Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 20s

THE Faliscans, having revolted, were on the sixth day subdued and permitted to surrender. colony was plantedat Spoletium. for the first time an army marched against the Ligurians. The Sardinians and Corsicans having revolted were reduced to subjection., a Vestal Virgin, was convicted of unchastity. War was declared against the Illyrians on account of the murder of one of the envoys who had been dispatched to them, and they were subdued and received in surrender. The number of praetors was enlarged to four. Gauls who had made an incursion into Italy were cut to pieces. The author states that in that war the Roman People had under arms 800,000 men, of their own and of the Latin name. for the first time Roman armies crossed the Po, and defeating the Insubrian Gauls in several battles, received their submission. The consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus having slain the chief of the Insubrian Gauls, Vertomarus, brought back the spoils of honour. The Histrians were subjugated. The Illyrians having gone to war a second time were defeated and their submission was received. The census was thrice taken by the censors. the first census there were registered 270,212 citizens... The freedmen were assigned to four tribes, whereas before they had been dispersed through them all —the four being the Esquilina, the Palatina, the Suburana, the Collina. The censor Gaius Flaminius built 'the Flaminian Way and the Flaminian Circus. were established in the territory taken from the Gauls, at Placentia and Cremona.