In the year of the consuls Q. Fabius Maximus Gurges and L. Mamilius Vitulus the Senate and People of Rome voted to construct a magnus mercatorius portus at Roma with public funds. An aedicula Iovis was completed in the spring of that year as well. In the last week before summer began, the Boii sallied forth from Bononia to break the leaguer of L. Cornelius Scipio, who had been rejoined by G. Aurelius Cotta.



Scipio ordered his infantry to leave behind their rams so as to meet the enemy unencumbered. The Gauls, having worked themselves into a frenzy in the knowledge that they had either to fight or, facing starvation, remain within their walls growing ever weaker until Scipio mounted an assault, charged in poor order.



Scipio ordered his infantry to hold, showering the approaching Gauls with their darts, engaging only when they had passed through the hail, as few as did.



After a time, a sizeable force managed to fall upon the left of Scipio's line, but Cotta, leading the cavalry with him, outflanked this force and fell upon them, causing much distress.





While Scipio was occupied with the enemy on his left, the Gallic cavalry, having issued from a side gate, fell heavily upon his right, but the line held, eventually driving away the cavalry with their spears. Cotta pursued the enemy into the city, securing the square. The Boii made one last stand outside the city, but they fell after Cadwalador, their captain, was brought down along with his personal retinue by the principes and triarii.













In the summer of that year, a circus simplex was completed at Ariminum. Finally, before winter set in, the area around Bononia was pacified and an aedicula Minervae was completed for the people of Rhegion. So ended the four hundred eighty-ninth year AVC.