Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 28
Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University, Ed.

38. Such were the results in Spain under the command and auspices of Publius Scipio. Turning over the province to Lucius Lentulus and Lucius Manlius Acidinus, the propraetors,¹ Scipio himself returned to Rome with ten ships. [2] And when a session of the senate was granted him in the Temple of Bellona² outside the city, he set forth his achievements in Spain; how many times he had fought pitched battles; how many towns he had taken by force from the enemy; what tribes he had subjected to the sway of the Roman people. [3] He had gone to Spain, he said, against four generals-in-command,³ against four victorious armies; he had left not a Carthaginian in that country. [4] For these achievements he sought the desired triumph but did not make an insistent demand, because it was established that down to that time no one who had commanded without being a magistrate had triumphed. [5] The senate having [p. 153]adjourned, he entered the city on foot,⁴ and before⁵ him he caused fourteen thousand three hundred and forty-two pounds of silver to be carried to the treasury, and a great number of silver coins. [6] Then an election for the choice of consuls was conducted by Lucius Veturius Philo, and all the centuries with great enthusiasm named Publius Cornelius Scipio consul. As his colleague he was given Publius Licinius Crassus, the pontifex maximus. [7] The election was thronged, it is further related, by greater numbers than any other during that war. [8] From every side they had come together, not only to vote but also to get a sight of Publius Scipio, and they flocked in large numbers both to his house⁶ and to him on the Capitol as he was sacrificing, offering up to Jupiter the hundred oxen he had vowed in Spain. [9] They promised themselves also that, just as Gaius Lutatius had finished the former Punic war, so Publius Cornelius would finish the war that was upon them; [10] and that as he had driven the Carthaginians entirely out of Spain, so he would drive them out of Italy; further assuring themselves that Africa should be his province, just as if the war in Italy were over. [11] Then the election of praetors was held. Two who at that time were plebeian aediles were elected, Spurius Lucretius and Gnaeus Octavius, and from private life Gnaeus Servilius Caepio and Lucius Aemilius Papus.

[12] In the fourteenth year of the Punic war, at the⁷ time Publius Cornelius Scipio and Publius Licinius Crassus entered upon their consulship, the consuls' provinces were designated, Sicily for Scipio — [p. 155]without casting lots, as his colleague gave way⁸ because the charge of religious rites kept a pontifex maximus in Italy —and the land of the Bruttians for Crassus. [13] Then the praetorian assignments were determined by lot. The city praetorship fell to Gnaeus Servilius, Ariminum⁹ —so they used to designate Gaul —to Spurius Lucretius, Sicily to Lucius Aemilius, Sardinia to Gnaeus Octavius.

The senate met on the Capitol.¹⁰ [14] There, the question being raised by Publius Scipio, a decree of the senate was passed that the games which he had vowed during the mutiny of the soldiers in Spain should be celebrated by him, drawing upon the money which he had himself brought into the treasury.