Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 42
Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. and Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D., Ed.

9. The consul turned the arrogance of soul which he had displayed towards the Ligurians to disobeying the senate. [2] He straightway sent the legions into winter-quarters at Pisa, and himself, angry with the Fathers and enraged at the praetor, returned to Rome; and immediately summoning the senate to the temple of Bellona, he assailed at great length the praetor who, although by reason of the success in [3??] the war he ought to have put to the senate a motion that honour be paid to the immortal [p. 317]gods, had proposed a decree of the senate directed¹ against Popilius and in favour of the enemy, by which he was transferring the consul's victory to the Ligurians and (although himself only a praetor) was almost ordering the consul to be delivered to them: [4] therefore he imposed a fine upon the praetor; he begged the Fathers to order that the decree of the senate which had been passed against him [5??] should be repealed, and that the thanksgiving which they should have voted in his absence, in consequence of the dispatches which he had sent regarding his victory, should now be decreed in his presence: first, to render honour to the gods; second, to show at least some sign of respect to himself. [6] The consul was attacked by a number of the senators in speeches no less severe than those delivered in his absence, and returned to his province without obtaining either petition.²

[7] The other consul, Postumius, spent the summer surveying the public lands, and without seeing his province at all returned to Rome to hold the elections. [8] He announced the choice of Gaius Popilius Laenas and Publius Aelius Ligus.³ Next the praetors were chosen: Gaius Licinius Crassus, Marcus Junius Pennus, Spurius Lucretius, Spurius Cluvius, Gnaeus Sicinius, Gaius Memmius (for the second time).⁴