[47.2] [159] A law against bribery was passed.

[47.3] The censors performed the lustrum ceremony. 

[47.4] 328,316 citizens were registered.

[47.5] The first man in the Senate was Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

[47.6] A treaty was negotiated between the two Ptolemaean brothers. One was to rule Egypt, the other Cyrene.

[47.7] King Ariarathes [V Philopator] of Cappadocia, who had been expelled from his kingdom on the initiative and with troops of king Demetrius [I Soter] of Syria, was restored by the Senate.

[47.8] A delegation was sent by the Senate to settle a border dispute between Massinissa and the Carthaginians.

[47.9] [156] Consul Gaius Marcius [Figulus] fought against the Dalmatians, at first unsuccessfully, later with more luck.

[47.10] The reason for going to war was that they had attacked the Illyrians, allies of the Roman people; [155] consul Cornelius Nasica subdued the Dalmatians.

[47.11] [154] Consul Quintus Opimius subdued the Transalpine Ligurians, who had attacked two towns of the Massiliots, Antipolis and Nicaea.

[47.12] It^note[Book 47.] also contains an account of several unsuccessful campaigns in Hispania by various commanders.

[47.13] In the five hundred and ninety-eighth year after the founding of the city, the consuls began to enter upon their office on 1 January. 

[47.14] The cause of this change in the date of the elections was a rebellion in Hispania.

[47.15] Envoys sent to negotiate between the Carthaginians and Massinissa said they had seen lots of timber in Carthage.

[47.16] Several praetors were charged with peculiation and condemned.

From Book 47

[47.1] Praetor Gnaeus Tremellius was fined, because he had illegally opposed pontifex maximus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. The claims of the religious authorities were stronger than that of the magistrates.