From Book 26

[26.1] [211 BCE] Hannibal built his camp at the third milestone from Rome, near the Anio.

[26.2] He personally came up to the Porta Capena^note[A mistake. The Porta Collina is meant.] with two thousand cavalry, to inspect the city's lie. 

[26.3] And when for three days the battle lines on both sides had been ready, a tempest broke off the engagement; when Hannibal had returned to his camp, tranquility returned.

[26.4] Capua was captured by consuls Quintus Fulvius and Appius Claudius.

[26.5] The Campanian leaders killed themselves with poison.

[26.6] When the Campanian senators had been tied to the stakes to be decapitated, consul Quintus Fulvius received a letter from the Senate, in which he was ordered to be merciful, but he kept it in the fold [of his toga], and before he had read it, he had already ordered that the law was to be applied, and the executions had already taken place.

[26.7] When at the elections the people were asked who wanted the Spanish command and nobody dared to accept it, Publius [Cornelius] Scipio (the son of the Publius who had fallen in Hispania), announced that he would go; and having been sent by the people's vote and general agreement, he captured New Carthage, and although he was only twenty-four, he appeared to be a son of a god, because from the moment he had accepted the toga, he was every day in the [temple of Jupiter on the] Capitol, and often, a serpent had been seen in the bed room of his mother.

[26.8] It^note[Book 26.] also contains accounts of the events on Sicily, [210] a treaty of friendship with the Aetolians, and war against the Acarnanians and king Philip of Macedonia.