RES GESTAE SENATUS POPVLIQVE ROMANI

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In the year of the consuls Q. Ogulinus Gallus and G. Fabius Pictor many improvements were made to the city of Roma and her allies. The portus mercatorius was completed in Capua, while Arpi and Rhegion recieved an horreum and drainage respectively. A circus simplex was build in Arretium and the augurum aedes was finished at Roma. These improvements were made at public expense. In the winter of that year, M' Curius Dentatus died, Primus inter Pares, Pontifex Maximus, etc. Gn. Cornelius Blasio, his heir, was immediately hailed as Primus inter Pares and promptly appointed Pontifex Maximus.The four hundred eighty-fifth year AVC ended with no hostilities against the Senate and People of Rome.



In the year of the consuls P. Sempronius Sophus and Ap. Claudius Russus the Senate and People of Rome voted to build a ludus in Capua and a medicus in Arpi. Taras was formally admitted to the Administratio Regionum Italicarum. In this four hundred eighty-sixth year AVC Roma and her allies saw no war.

In the year of the consuls M. Atilius Regulus and L. Iulius Libo the Senate and Roman People voted to build housing for augurs in both Arretium and Arpi. Capua received a circus simplex while a Villa Propraetoris was finished at Taras. The mines of Rhegion were opened and Ariminum was officially admitted to the Administratio Regionum Italicarum. This four hundred eighty-seventh year AVC was the third consecutive year in which the Senate and People of Rome saw no war with her neighbors.

In the year of the consuls D. Iunius Pera and Num. Fabius Pictor the Senate and People of Rome voted to give L. Cornelius Scipio imperium pro consule to pacify the region of Bononia. He besieged that city in the spring, having with him G. Aurelius Cotta as tribune and the better part of a legion.



During the summer of that year, an army of dissidents from the Po valley made an attack on the territory of Ariminum. Scipio, occupied with the seige of Bononia, sent Cotta with a cavalry force to join with the half-legion stationed near Arretium and engage the threat.



Cotta brought the enemy force to bay on a hill outside Ariminum and formed his battle line. As the enemy would not move to the attack, preferring rather to take cover among the trees, he was forced to attack uphill through several volleys of darts. The lines closed under the trees, and Cotta was hard-pressed to keep his troops in the fight, as they were by now tired and he was not experienced in times of doubt.







For all that his men were heartened the less by his youth, nonetheless Cotta proved the stronger on that day, as, at a prearranged signal, his Rorarii, to that point held in reserve under the eaves, issued forth upon the unprotected right of the enemy, letting fly a rain of darts before charging home. They wrought much dismay and caused the enemy line to collapse upon itself. Soon the enemy fled, making for the Po valley and hope of safety there, but no longer a coherent threat.





Cotta returned to the area of Arretium to resupply, intending thence to rejoin Scipio. So ended the four hundred eighty-eighth year AVC.