Liv. 22.11.1Ita rēbus dīvīnīs perāctīs tum dē bellō dēque rē pūblicā dictātor rettulit, quibus quotve legiōnibus victōrī hostī obviam eundum esse patrēs cēnsērent.When religious matters had thus been completed, the dictator then put the question of the war and the state, asking with which and how many legions the fathers thought the victorious enemy should be met. Liv. 22.11.2Dēcrētum ut ab Cn. Servīliō cōnsule exercitum acciperet;It was decreed that he should take over the army from the consul Gnaeus Servilius; Liv. 22.11.2scrīberet praetereā ex cīvibus sociīsque quantum equitum ac peditum vidērētur;should enrol, besides, from citizens and allies as many cavalry and infantry as he saw fit; Liv. 22.11.2cētera omnia ageret faceretque, ut ē rē pūblicā dūceret.and should do and perform everything else as he judged to be in the interest of the republic. Liv. 22.11.3Fabius duās legiōnēs sē adiectūrum ad Servīliānum exercitum dīxit.Fabius said that he would add two legions to the army of Servilius. Liv. 22.11.3Iīs per magistrum equitum scrīptīs Tībur diem ad conveniendum ēdīxit;When these had been enrolled through the master of the horse, he proclaimed a day for them to assemble at Tibur; Liv. 22.11.4ēdictōque prōpositō, ut, quibus oppida castellaque immūnīta essent, ut iī commigrārent in loca tūta, ex agrīs quoque dēmigrārent omnēs regiōnis eius, quā itūrus Hannibal esset, tēctīs prius incēnsīs ac frūgibus corruptīs, nē cuius reī cōpia esset, ipse viā Flāminiā profectus obviam cōnsulī exercituīque cum ad Tiberim circā Ocriculum prōspexisset agmen cōnsulemque cum equitibus ad sē prōgredientem, viātōrem mīsit, quī cōnsulī nūntiāret, ut sine līctōribus ad dictātōrem venīret.and having published an edict that those whose towns and forts were unfortified should move into safe places, and that all the inhabitants of the region through which Hannibal was going to pass should also move out of the countryside, first burning their buildings and destroying their crops, so that there should be a supply of nothing, he himself set out along the Flaminian Way to meet the consul and his army, and when near Ocriculum by the Tiber he caught sight of the column and the consul advancing towards him with the cavalry, he sent an orderly to tell the consul to come to the dictator without his lictors.
Liv. 22.11.6Quī cum dictō pāruisset congressusque eōrum ingentem speciem dictātūrae apud cīvēs sociōsque vetustāte iam prope oblītōs eius imperiī fēcisset, litterae ab urbe allātae sunt, nāvēs onerāriās commeātum ab Ōstiā in Hispāniam ad exercitum portantēs ā classe Pūnicā circā portum Cosānum captās esse.When he had obeyed the order, and their meeting had made a great show of the dictatorship before citizens and allies, who through lapse of time had now almost forgotten that office, a letter was brought from the city saying that merchant ships carrying supplies from Ostia to the army in Spain had been captured by the Carthaginian fleet near the harbour of Cosa. Liv. 22.11.7Itaque extemplō cōnsul Ōstiam proficīscī iussus nāvibusque, quae ad urbem Rōmānam aut Ōstiae essent, complētīs mīlite ac nāvālibus sociīs persequī hostium classem ac lītora Ītaliae tūtārī.And so the consul was at once ordered to set out for Ostia and, manning the ships that were at the city of Rome or at Ostia with soldiers and naval allies, to pursue the enemy fleet and guard the coasts of Italy. Liv. 22.11.8Magna vīs hominum cōnscrīpta Rōmae erat;A great number of men had been enrolled at Rome; Liv. 22.11.8lībertīnī etiam, quibus līberī essent et aetās mīlitāris, in verba iūrāverant.even freedmen who had children and were of military age had taken the oath.
Liv. 22.11.9Ex hōc urbānō exercitū quī minōrēs quīnque et trīgintā annīs erant in nāvīs inpositī, aliī, ut urbī praesidērent, relictī.Of this city army, those who were under thirty-five years of age were put on board the ships; the others were left to guard the city.