Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 24
Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University, Ed.

9. While Titus Otacilius was fiercely and noisily shouting that Fabius wanted to have his consulship prolonged, the consul ordered [2??] the lictors to go up to him, and, as he had not entered the city, having gone without [3??] a halt directly to the Campus, he warned Otacilius that the fasces carried before the consul had their axes.¹ [4] Meanwhile the leading century proceeded to vote, and in it were elected consuls Quintus Fabius Maximus for the fourth time and Marcus Marcellus for the third time. [5] The rest of the centuries without exception named the same men as consuls. And of the praetors one, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, was reflected, the others newly created, Titus [6??] Otacilius Crassus for the second time,² Quintus Fabius, son of the consul and at the time curule aedile, and Publius Cornelius Lentulus. [7] The election of praetors being now completed, the senate decreed³ that Quintus Fulvius by special designation should have the duties of city praetor, and that he, and [8??] no one else, should be in charge of the city when the consuls took the field. [9] There were great floods twice [p. 205]that year and the Tiber overflowed the farms with⁴ great destruction of buildings and cattle and much loss of life.

[10] In the fifth year of the Second Punic War, Quintus⁵ Fabius Maximus entering his fourth consulship and Marcus Claudius Marcellus his third attracted the attention of the citizens more than was usual. [11] For many years there had been no such pair of consuls. Old men recalled that thus Maximus Rullus had been declared consul⁶