Livy, Periochae 56-60

Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.

A large part of Livy's History of Rome since the Foundation is now lost, but fortunately we have an excerpt, called the Periochae, which helps us reconstruct the general scope. This translation was made by Jona Lendering.

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From Book 56
[56.1] In Hispania Ulterior, Decimus Junius Brutus successfully fought against the Gallaecians.
[56.2] Proconsul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus obtained different results against the Vaccaeans, against whom he suffered a defeat equal to that at Numantia.
[56.3] To release the nation from the ties of the treaty with Numantia, its instigator Mancinus was handed over to the Numantines, but they did not accept him.
[56.4] The censors performed the lustrum ceremony.
[56.5] 317,933 citizens were registered.
[56.6] [135 BCE] Consul Fulvius Flaccus subdued the Vardaeans in Illyricum.
[56.7] In Thrace, praetor Marcus Cosconius successfully fought against the Scordiscians.
[56.8] [134] Because of the mistakes of the commanders, and to the shame of the state, the Numantine war dragged on, so the Senate and people of Rome offered the consulship to Scipio Africanus [Aemilianus]; and because he could not accept this because of the law, which forbade second consulships, the rulers were changes, just as it had happened during his previous consulate.
[56.9] When the Servile War in Sicily could not be suppressed by the praetors, consul Gaius Fulvius was sent.
[56.10] This war was started by a Syrian slave named Eunus, who gathered rural slaves, opened the workhouses, and expanded his band to the size of an army.
[56.11] Another slave, Cleon, gathered seventy thousand slaves, and the Roman army was frequently defeated when the slave armies had united.

From Book 56