[25.15] Marcius was surnamed Dux, Leader.

From Book 25

[25.1] Publius Cornelius Scipio, later called Africanus, was made aedile before he had reached the minimum age.

[25.2] [212] Aided by a group of young Tarentines who pretended to go out hunting during the night, Hannibal captured Tarentum, except for the citadel, to which the Roman garrison had escaped.

[25.3] The Games of Apollo were organized in accordance with the Oracles of Marcius, which had predicted the disaster at Cannae.

[25.4] Consuls Quintus Fulvius and Appius Claudius successfully fought against the Carthaginian leader Hanno.

[25.5] Proconsul Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, led into an ambush by his host in Lucania, was killed by Mago.

[25.6] Centennius Paenula, who had served as a centurion, asked the Senate to give him an army and promissed a victory over Hannibal if he received it, received eight thousand soldiers, was made general, engaged Hannibal, and was slain with his army.

[25.7] Capua was besieged by consuls Quintus Fulvius and Appius Claudius.

[25.8] Praetor Gnaeus Fulvius unsuccessfully fought against Hannibal.

[25.9] Twenty thousand men were killed in action, but he himself escaped with two hundred cavalry.

[25.10] In the third year, [Marcus] Claudius Marcellus took Syracuse, and behaved himself as a great man.

[25.11] In the chaos of the captured city, Archimedes, concentrated on the figures he had drawn in the sand, was murdered.

[25.12] After many successes, Publius and Gnaeus [Cornelius] Scipio met with a sad end in the eighth year after their arrival in Hispania, when they were massacred with almost their entire army.

[25.13] Possession of that province would have been lost, had not the remnants of the armies been regrouped by the valor and energy of Lucius Marcius [Septimus], a Roman knight, who encouraged the soldiers and stormed two enemy camps. 

[25.14] About twenty-seven thousand were killed; thousand and eighty men and an enormous booty were captured.