1The town was taken with an immense amount of plunder. 1Although most things had been deliberately destroyed by their owners, and anger had made hardly any distinction of age in the killing, and the captives had been the soldiers' booty, nevertheless it is agreed both that a considerable sum of money was raised from the price of goods sold and that much costly furniture and clothing was sent to Carthage. 3Some have written that Saguntum was captured in the eighth month after the siege began; 3that Hannibal then withdrew to New Carthage into winter quarters; 3and that in the fifth month after setting out from Carthage he reached Italy. 4If this is so, it cannot have been the case that Publius Cornelius and Tiberius Sempronius were the consuls to whom the Saguntine envoys were sent at the beginning of the siege, and who in their year of office fought with Hannibal, one at the river Ticinus, both somewhat later at the Trebia.
5Either everything took somewhat less time, or Saguntum was not first attacked but captured at the beginning of the year in which Publius Cornelius and Tiberius Sempronius were consuls. 6For the battle at the Trebia cannot have fallen as late as the year of Gnaeus Servilius and Gaius Flaminius, because Gaius Flaminius entered his consulship at Ariminum, having been elected under the presidency of the consul Tiberius Sempronius, who, after coming to Rome following the battle at the Trebia to hold the consular elections, returned to the army in winter quarters once the elections were over.