From Book 29

[29.1] Gaius Laelius, sent by Scipio from Sicily to Africa, brought back enormous booty and gave Scipio Massinissa's messages, in which he complained that he had not yet sent his army to Africa.

[29.2] When Indebilis provoked a war in Hispania, it ended with a Roman victory; he himself was killed in action, and Mandonius was handed over by his relatives when the Romans asked for it.

[29.3] Mago, who was at Albingaunum in Liguria, received many soldiers and money to hire auxiliaries, and was ordered to join Hannibal.

[29.4] Scipio crossed from Sicily to Bruttium and recaptured Locri by putting its Carthaginian garrison to flight and routing Hannibal.

[29.5] A peace treaty was concluded with Philip [V of Macedonia].

[29.6] [204] In accordance with an oracle found in the Sibylline books, which stated that a foreign invader would be expelled if the Idaean Mother^note[Cybele.] had been brought to Rome, the Idaean Mother was brought to Rome from the Phrygian town Pessinus.

[29.7] She was given to the Romans by king Attalus [I Soter] of Asia.

[29.8] According to the natives, the Mother of the gods was a stone.

[29.9] Because the oracle had ordered that the deity had to be received and consecrated by the best man, she was received by Publius [Cornelius] Scipio Nasica (son of the Gnaeus who had perished in Hispania), who was judged by the Senate to be the best man, although he was young and had not even reached the quaestorship.

[29.10] The Locrians sent envoys to Rome to complain about the shocking behavior of Pleminius, who had confiscated the money of Prosepina, and had outraged their children and wives.

[29.11] In chains, he was sent to Rome, where he died in jail.

[29.12] When a false rumor concerning proconsul Publius [Cornelius] Scipio, who was on Sicily, circulated in the city, concerning his life in luxury, the Senate sent envoys to investigate the truth of the rumor; Scipio was cleared of the accusation and with the Senate's permission, he crossed to Africa.

[29.13] Syphax, who had married a daughter of Hasdrubal, son of Gesco, renounced his friendship with Scipio.

[29.14] King Massinissa of the Massylians, who had fought for the Carthaginians in Hispania, had been excluded from the kingship when he lost his father Gala.

[29.15] He had repeatedly tried to regain it by war, but had in several battles been defeated by king Syphax of Numidia, and had lost everything. As an exile he and two hundred cavalry joined Scipio, and with his help, Scipio defeated Hanno, the son of Hamilcar, together with many soldiers, right at the beginning of the war.

[29.16] When Hasdrubal, Syphax, and hundred thousand men approached, Scipio was forced to raise the siege of Utica, and settle in a winter camp.

[29.17] Consul Sempronius successfully fought against Hannibal in the country of Croton.

[29.18] There was a remarkable quarrel between the two censors Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero.

[29.19] Because on the one hand, Claudius took away the [public] horse from his colleague because he had once been condemned and had been exiled by the people, and on the other hand Livius did the same to Claudius, because he had spoken falsely about him and had been insincere when they had been reconciled.

[29.20] He also registered all districts (except for one) as tax payers of the lowest order, because they had once condemned him, although he had been innocent and they had later made him consul and censor.

[29.21] The censors celebrated the lustrum ceremony.

[29.22] 214,000 citizens were registered.