From Book 39

[39.1] [187] After he had defeated the Ligurians, consul Marcus Aemilius built a road from Placentia to Ariminum, where it joined the Via Flaminia.

[39.2] There is an account of the beginning of luxury, which was introduced into the city by the army of [Lucius Cornelius Scipio] Asiaticus.

[39.3] The Ligurians who live on this side of the Apennines were subdued.

[39.4] [186] The Bacchanals, a Greek and nocturnal rite and the source of all evil, were suppressed when many people were involved in this conspiracy. After the investigation, many people were punished.

[39.5] [184] The censors Lucius Valerius Flaccus and Marcus Porcius Cato (a remarkable man in times of war and times of peace) removed from the Senate Lucius Quinctius Flamininus, the brother of Titus, because he had, when he had been in the province of Gaul as consul, on request of his lover, the well-known prostitute Philip of Carthage, personally killed a certain Gaul, or, as some say, had beheaded a condemned criminal to please the courtesan Placentina, for whom he was deadly in love.

[39.6] (The speech by Marcus [Porcius] Cato] still exists.)

[39.7] [183] As if Fortune wanted to unite two remarkable men with their funerals, Scipio died in Liternum, and Hannibal poisoned himself at the same time. After Antiochus [III the Great] had been defeated, Hannibal had fled to king Prusias [I the Lame] of Bithynia, who wanted to hand him over to the Romans, who had sent Titus Quinctius Flamininus

[39.8] [182] Philopoemen, the leader of the Achaeans and a great man, was also poisoned, by the Messenians who had captured him during a war.

[39.9] [184] The colonies of Potentia, Pisaurum, Mutina, and Parma were founded.

[39.10] [181] It^note[Book 39.] also contains accounts of successful wars against the Celtiberians and the causes of the Macedonian war,

[39.11] which were that Philip did not accept that his power was diminished by the Romans and that he was forced by the Thracians to relocate his garrisons.