Book LXI.
Caius Sextius, the pro-consul, [Y.R. 630. B.C. 122,] having subdued the nation of the
Salyans, founds a colony, which he named Aquae Sextiae, after his own name, and on account
of the abundance of water which he found there, flowing both from hot and cold springs.
[Y.R. 631. B.C. 121.] Cneius Domitius, the proconsul, fought the Allobrogians with success
at the town of Vindalium. The cause of this war was their receiving, and furnishing with
all the aid in their power, Teutomalius, the king of the Salyans, who had fled to them,
and their ravaging the lands of the Aeduans, who were in alliance with the people of Rome.
[Y.R. 632. B.C. 120.] Caius Gracchus, upon the expiration of his seditious tribunate,
seized upon the Aventine mount with a considerable number of armed followers; Lucius
Opimius, by a decree of the senate, armed the people, drove him from it, and put him to
death, together with Fulvius Flaccus, a man of consular rank, a participator of the same
wild project. Quintus Fabius Maximus, the consul, nephew of Paullus, gained a battle
against the Allobrogians and Bituitus, king of the Arvernians, in which one thousand one
hundred and twenty of the army of Bituitus were slain. [Y.R. 633. B.C. 119.] The king
having come to Rome to make satisfaction to the senate, was sent prisoner to Alba, there
to be kept in custody, as it was not considered safe to send him back to Gaul. A decree
was also passed, that his
[p. 2187] son, Congentiatus, should be taken
and sent to Rome. The Allobrogians were admitted to a capitulation. Lucius Opimius, being
brought to trial before the people for committing to prison some citizens who had not been
condemned, was acquitted.
