Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 23
Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University, Ed.

21. About the same time letters from Sicily and Sardinia were brought to Rome. [2] First to be read in the senate were those from Sicily and Titus Otacilius, the propraetor, reporting that Publius Furius, the praetor, had come with his fleet from Africa to Lilybaeum; that Furius himself had been seriously wounded and his life was in the utmost danger; [3] that neither pay nor grain was being furnished to the [4??] soldiers and the crews at the proper date, and they had no means of doing so; [5] that he strongly urged that both be sent as soon as possible, and that they send a successor chosen, if they saw fit, from the number of the new praetors. [6] Much the same facts in regard to pay and grain were reported from Sardinia by Aulus Cornelius Mammula, the propraetor. To each the reply was that there [p. 73]was nothing on hand to send, and they were ordered¹ to provide for their own fleets and armies. [7] Titus Otacilius sent legates to Hiero, the mainstay of the Roman people,²