The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books

BOOK LXIII.

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Caius Porcius, the consul, [Y. R. 638. B. C. 114,] fought against the Scordiscians in Thrace, unsuccessfully. The lustrum was closed by the censors: the number of the citizens amounts to three hundred and ninety-four thousand three hundred and thirty-six. Æmilia, Licinia, and Marcia, vestal virgins, were found guilty of incest. [Y. R. 639. B. C. 113.] The Cimbrians, a wandering people, came into Illyria, where they fight with and defeat the army of the consul, Papirius Carbo. [Y. R. 640. B. C. 112.] The consul, Livius Drusus, made war successfully upon the Scordiscians, a people descended from the Gauls.