Liv. 22.33.1Per eōsdem diēs speculātor Carthāginiēnsis, quī per biennium fefellerat, Rōmae dēprēnsus praecīsīsque manibus dīmissus, et servī quīnque et vīgintī in crucem āctī, quod in campō Mārtiō coniūrāssent;During the same days a Carthaginian spy, who had escaped detection for two years, was caught at Rome and sent away with his hands cut off, and twenty-five slaves were crucified because they had conspired in the Campus Martius; Liv. 22.33.2indicī data lībertās et aeris gravis vīgintī mīlia.the informer was given his freedom and twenty thousand asses of heavy bronze. Liv. 22.33.2Lēgātī et ad Philippum Macedonum rēgem missī ad dēposcendum Dēmētrium Pharium, quī bellō victus ad eum fūgisset, et aliī in Ligurēs ad expostulandum, quod Poenum opibus auxiliīsque suīs iūvissent, simul ad vīsendum ex propinquō, quae in Boīs atque Īnsubribus gererentur.Envoys were also sent to Philip, king of the Macedonians, to demand the surrender of Demetrius of Pharos, who, beaten in war, had fled to him, and others to the Ligurians to protest that they had aided the Carthaginian with their resources and auxiliaries, and at the same time to observe from close at hand what was being done among the Boii and the Insubres.
Liv. 22.33.5Ad Pinnem quoque rēgem in Illyriōs lēgātī missī ad stīpendium, cuius diēs exierat, poscendum aut, sī diem prōferrī vellet, ad obsidēs accipiendōs.Envoys were also sent to King Pinnes in Illyria to demand the tribute whose day of payment had passed, or, if he wished the day to be put off, to receive hostages. Liv. 22.33.6Adeō, etsī bellum ingēns in cervīcibus erat, nūllīus usquam terrārum reī cūra Rōmānōs, nē longinquae quidem, effugiēbat.So true was it that, although a huge war was on their necks, no concern anywhere on earth, not even a distant one, escaped the Romans. Liv. 22.33.7In religiōnem etiam vēnit, aedem Concordiae, quam per sēditiōnem mīlitārem bienniō ante L. Mānlius praetor in Galliā vōvisset, locātam ad id tempus nōn esse.It also became a matter of religious scruple that the temple of Concord, which the praetor Lucius Manlius had vowed in Gaul during a mutiny of the soldiers two years before, had not been contracted for up to that time. Liv. 22.33.8Itaque duumvirī ad eam rem creātī ā M. Aemiliō praetōre urbānō C. Pūpius et K. Quīnctius Flāminīnus aedem in arce faciendam locāvērunt.Accordingly Gaius Pupius and Kaeso Quinctius Flamininus, appointed as a board of two for the purpose by Marcus Aemilius, the urban praetor, let the contract for building the temple on the citadel.
Liv. 22.33.9Ab eōdem praetōre ex senātūs cōnsultō litterae ad cōnsulēs missae, ut, sī iīs vidērētur, alter eōrum ad cōnsulēs creandōs Rōmam venīret;By the same praetor, in accordance with a decree of the senate, a letter was sent to the consuls, asking that, if they thought fit, one of them should come to Rome to hold the election of consuls; Liv. 22.33.9sē in eam diem, quam iussissent, comitia ēdictūrum.he would proclaim the election for whatever day they ordered. Liv. 22.33.10Ad haec ā cōnsulibus rescrīptum sine dētrīmentō reī pūblicae abscēdī nōn posse ab hoste;To this the consuls wrote back that they could not withdraw from the enemy without harm to the state; Liv. 22.33.10itaque per interrēgem comitia habenda esse potius, quam cōnsul alter ā bellō āvocārētur.and that the election should therefore be held by an interrex rather than one consul be called away from the war. Liv. 22.33.11Patribus rēctius vīsum est dictātōrem ā cōnsule dīcī comitiōrum habendōrum causā.The senators thought it more proper that a dictator should be named by a consul for the purpose of holding the election.
Liv. 22.33.11Dictus L. Veturius Philō M. Pompōnium Mathōnem magistrum equitum dīxit.Lucius Veturius Philo was named, and he named Marcus Pomponius Matho master of the horse. Liv. 22.33.12Iīs vitiō creātīs iussīsque diē quartō decimō sē magistrātū abdicāre, rēs ad interregnum rediit.Since they had been appointed with a flaw in the auspices and were ordered on the fourteenth day to resign their office, the matter reverted to an interregnum.