Incidents in Italy.-The consul Cnaeus Servilius, fully persuadedt hd 【edtat the credit of restoring peace in Italy was due to hirh and that it was he who had driven Hannibal out of the country, followed the Carthaginian commander to Sicily, intending to sail from there to Africa. When this became known 热Rome the senate decided that the praetor should write to him and inform him that the senate thought it right that he should remain in Italy. The praetor said that Servilius would 伴y no attention letter from him and on this it was resolved to appoint Su1D1ciuS Dictator. and he by virtue of his superior autho to注·ntdel lj户3︺r L‘‘ro .二，)1e.吞1 called the consul to Italy. Th e Dictator spent the remainder the vear in visitinz. accompanied 卜.0 y迁 M. Servilius, his Master of the Horse, the different cities Italy which had fallen away from Rome during the war, and holding an enquiry in each case. The Carthaginians break the Truce.--During the armistice a hundred transports carrying supplies and escorted by twenty warships were despatched from Sardinia by Lentulus the praetor and reached Africa without any damage either from the enemy or from storms. Cnaeus Octavius sailed from Sicily with two hundred transports and thirty warshiDS. but was not equally fortunate. He had‘a favourable voyage until he was almost within sight of Africa, when he was becalmed;·then south-westerly win d sprang up which scattered his ships in all directions. Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of the rowers against the adverse waves, Octavius succeeded in making the Promontory of Apollo. The greater part of the transports were driven to Aegimurus, an island’which forms a breakwater to the bay on which Carthage is situated and about thirty miles distant from the city. Other were carried up to the city itself as far as the Aquae Calidae(“hot-springs，’)· All this was visible from Carthage, and a crowd gathered from all parts of the city in the forum. The m呼strates convened the senate:the people who were in the vestibule of the senatenouse protestea against so much pooty Deing auowea to sup out of their hands and out, of their sight. Some objected that this would be a breach of faith whilst peace negotiations were zoina on. others were for respecting the truce which had not vet eXAirea. 1 ne popular assemtiiv was so mixea up witn the senate tnat tnev aunost rormea one poav. ana tnev unanunousiv decided that Hasdrubal should proceed to Aezimurum with arty snips of war ana pica up the tcoman snips wnicn were scattered along the coast or in the harbours. Those transports which had been abandoned by their crews at Aegimurum were towed to Carthage, and subsequently others were brought in from Aquae Calidae.