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

59. One of the consuls, Quintus Fulvius, triumphed over the Ligurians; this triumph was clearly due to influence rather than to the greatness of his achievements.¹ [2] He carried in the triumph a great quantity of arms taken from the enemy, [p. 179]but practically no money. Still he distributed to the² soldiers three hundred asses each to the infantry, twice that sum to the centurions and thrice to the cavalry. [3] Nothing in the triumph was more noteworthy than that it happened to occur on the same day on which, in the previous year, he had triumphed after his praetorship. [4] After the triumph he announced the elections, at which Marcus Junius Brutus and Aulus Manlius Volso were chosen consuls. [5] The election of praetors, after three had been chosen, was broken up by a storm.³ The following day, this being the fourth day before the Ides of March, the other three were elected, Marcus Titinius Curvus, Tiberius Claudius Nero, Titus Fonteius Capito. [6] The ludi Romani were repeated by the curule aediles, Gnaeus Servilius Caepio and Appius Claudius Cento, by reason of the prodigies which had occurred. [7] The earth shook; in the shrines of the gods, when the lectisternium was being held, the heads of the gods who were on the couches turned away, and the platter with its lids which had been set before Jupiter fell from the table. [8] It was also interpreted as a portent that the mice tasted the olives.⁴ To make atonement for them, nothing else was done than to repeat the Games.