Portents.---Before the consuls and praetors their respective steps were taken to expiate le明 户呀洁a 奋‘r 主O ﹄DU fS provinces portents which had been announced. The temples of Vulcan and Summanus in Rome the sky. became lit up during the night;at Aesula a two-headed lamb with hve feet was born;a t norm iae two wolves entered the town and mauled several people who fell in their way; at Rome a wolf entered the City a nd even made his way into the Capitol. C. Atunus, one of the tribunes of the plebs.carried a DroDosal ion iounding five colonies on the coast, two at the mouths of the Volturnus and， Liternus, one atn 11 1 77 T卵teoli, one at the Castrum. . _ :5aierni, and finally buxentum. It was decided that each colony should consist of 3oo households, and three commissioners were appointed to supervise the settlement. They were to hold office for three years. The commissioners were M. Serr7ilius Geminus, Q. M Mucius The rmus and Tiberius Semproni us Longus. Expedition into Gaul and L igurza. they had raised the required force and completed all the necessary business, both sacred and secular, both the consuls left for Gaul. Cornelius took the direct road to the Insubres.who in conjunction with the Cenomani were in arms:O Minucius bent his course -to the left side of Italy towards the Adriatic, and marching his army to Genua began operations in the direction of Liguria. Two fortified towns, Clastidium and Litubium both belonging to the Ligurians, and two of their communities. the Celeiates and the Cerdiciates, surrendered. All the tribes on this side the Po were now reduced except the Boii in Gaul and the Ilvates in Liguria. It was stated that i《fortified towns and ao,ooo men surrendered.