Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 40
Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. and Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D., Ed.

44. In that year for the first time a motion was proposed by Lucius Villius, tribune of the people, fixing the ages at which each magistracy might be [p. 139]sought and held.¹ From this fact a cognomen was given² to his family, so that its members were called Annales. [2] After many years³ four praetors were chosen under the Baebian law, which provided that four should be chosen in alternate years.⁴ The praetors so elected were Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio, Gaius Valerius Laevinus and Quintus and Publius Mucius Scaevola, the sons of Quintus.

[3] To Quintus Fulvius and Lucius Manlius the consuls⁵ the same province which their predecessors had held was decreed with the same numbers of troops, infantry and cavalry, citizens and allies. [4] In the two Spains the imperium of Tiberius Sempronius and Lucius Postumius was prolonged, and they were to keep the same armies which they had; [5] and as replacements the consuls were ordered to enroll three thousand Roman infantry, three hundred cavalry, five thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry of the allies of the Latin confederacy. [6] Publius Mucius Scaevola received by lot the civil jurisdiction and also the duty of enquiring into cases of poisoning in the city and within a distance of ten miles from the city, Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio that between citizens and aliens, Quintus Mucius Scaevola Sicily, Gaius Valerius Laevinus Sardinia.

[7] Quintus Fulvius the consul said that before he brought up any matter of public business he wished to free himself and the state of an obligation to the [p. 141]gods by fulfilling his vows. [8] He had vowed, he said, on⁶ the day when he had last fought with the Celtiberians, to give games to Jupiter Optimus Maximus and a temple to Fortuna Equestris: [9] for this purpose money had been collected for him by the Spaniards.⁷ It was decreed that the games should be held and that two commissioners should be chosen to contract for the temple. [10] As to the cost, the limit was set that a greater sum might not be spent for the games than the amount that had been decreed to Fulvius Nobilior⁸ when he gave his games after the Aetolian war, and it was voted too that he should not invite, compel or accept [11??] contributions for these or do anything contrary to that decree of the senate which had been passed regarding games in the consulship of Lucius Aemilius and Gnaeus Baebius.⁹ [12] The senate had passed this decree because of the lavish expenditures made on games by Tiberius Sempronius the aedile, which had been a burden, not only on Italy and the allies of the Latin confederacy, but on outside provinces as well.¹⁰