Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 27
Frank Gardner Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University, Ed.

36. In regard to Hasdrubal's coming to Italy anxiety was daily increasing. First, ambassadors from Massilia¹ had announced that he had passed over into Gaul, and that the Gauls [2??] were aroused by [p. 355]his coming,² because he was said to have brought a³ great amount of gold in order to hire mercenaries. [3] After that, Sextus Antistius and Marcus Raecius, who were sent with them from Rome as ambassadors to look into the matter, had reported that with Massilians as guides they had sent men to ascertain all the facts through leading Gauls who were guestfriends of their guides, and to report; [4] that they had established that Hasdrubal with a huge army already concentrated would cross the Alps the next spring, and that at that time nothing else was detaining him than that the Alps were closed by the winter.

[5] In place of Marcus Marcellus as augur Publius Aelius Paetus was elected and installed; and Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella was installed as rex sacrorum in place of Marcus Marcius, who had died two years before. [6] Also in the same year the lustration was completed⁴ by the censors, Publius Sempronius Tuditanus and Marcus Cornelius Cethegus. [7] Enrolled in the census were 137,108 citizens, a considerably smaller number than it had been before the war.⁵ In that year for the first time since Hannibal had invaded Italy it is recorded that [8??] the Comitium was covered,⁶ and that the Roman Games were repeated for one day by the curule aediles, Quintus Metellus and Gaius Servilius. And at the [p. 357]Plebeian Games there was a repetition for two days⁷ by order of Gaius Mamilius and Marcus Caecilius Metellus, plebeian aediles. [9] And they likewise gave three statues at the Temple of Ceres. There was also a banquet for Jupiter on account of the festival.⁸

Later on Gaius Claudius Nero and Marcus Livius⁹ entered upon their consulship, the latter for the second time. [10] Because as consuls-elect they had already cast lots for their provinces, they ordered the praetors to cast lots. [11] To Gaius Hostilius fell the city praetorship; the foreign praetorship also was assigned to him, to enable three praetors to go out to provinces.¹⁰ Sardinia fell to Aulus Hostilius, Sicily to Gaius Mamilius, Gaul to Lucius Porcius. The total of the legions was twenty-three, divided as follows among the provinces: [12] the consuls were each to have two legions, Spain four, each of three praetors was to have two, in Sicily and Sardinia and Gaul, Gaius Terentius to [13??] have two in Etruria, Quintus Fulvius two in the land of the Bruttii, Quintus Claudius two in the vicinity of Tarentum and the Sallentini, Gaius Hostilius Tubulus one at Capua. Two city legions were to be enrolled. [14] For the first four legions¹¹ the people elected the tribunes, to the rest of the legions tribunes were sent by the consuls.