The praetors Fulvius and Scribonius.whose JL产 ment was the administration of iustice. were charged task of fitting out i oo quinqueremes in addition to which Atilius was to command. Portents.-'Before the consul and the praetors left to take up their appointments solemn intercessions were made on account of various portents. A report came from Picenum that a shegoat had produced six kids at one birth;at Arretium a boy had been born with only one hand;at Amiternum there was a were shower of earth; at Formiae the wall and one of the gatesstruck with lightning. But the most appalling report wasan ox belonging to Cn. Domitius had uttered the words " R that 0爪a， cave tibi”(“Rome, be on thy guard!”).With respect to the r portents public supplications were offered un. but in the ‘几几几L， of the ox the haruspices ordered it to be carefully kept and The flooded Tiber made a more serious attac k upon the City than in the previous year and destroyed two bridges and numerous buildings.most of them in the neighbourhood of the Porta Flumentana. A huge mass of rock. undermined either by 、v 755 E the heavy rains or by an earthquake not felt at the time, fell from the Capitol into the Vicus Tugarius and crushed a number or people. In the countrv aistricts cattle ana sneCD were cameo orr Dy the nooas in au airections ana many rarmnouses were laid in ruins. Before the consul L. Quinctius reached his province Q. Minucius fought a pitched battle with the Ligurians near Pisae. He killed gooo of the enemy and drove the rest in flight to their camp, which was attacked and defended顽th furious fighting until nightfall. During the night the Ligurians stole away in silence, and at daybreak the Romans entered the deserted camp. They found less plunder than might have been expected, as the Ligurians made a practice of sending what they seized in the fields to their homes. After this Minucius gave them no respite: advancing from Pisae he laid waste their fortified 1了 villages and homesteads, and the Roman soldiers loaded themselves with the plunder which the Ligurians had carried off from Etruria and sent to their homes.