The Breviarie of L. Florus, upon the fourteenth Booke.
PYrrhus passed the seas into Sicilie. When among other prodigies and fearefull tokens, the image of Iupiter in the Capitoll, was overt browne and smitten downe with lightning, the head therof was recovered & found again by the soothsaiers. Curius Dentatus, as he was taking musters, sold in port-sale the goods of one, that would not answere to his name when he was called. He defaited Pyrrhus, after his return again out of Sicily into Italy; & forced him to void & depart once for all. Fabricius a Censor, cassed and displaced out of his Senatours rowme, P. Cornelius Rufinus, one [unspec E] that had been Consul, for that he had in silver plate, to the waight of ten pounds. There was a Lustrum holden by the Censours, and therein were found 271224 citizens. A societie and alliance was contracted with Ptolomee K. of Aegypt. Sextilia a prosessed vestall Nun was convicted of uncleannesse and fornica∣tion, & buried quick. Two new Colonies were erected, to wit, Posidonia and Consa. A fleet of Carthagini∣ans arrived, to aid the Mamertines: by occasion whereof, the league was broken. This booke compriseth also, the happie exploits against the Lucanians, Samnites, and Brutians: together with the death of king Pyrrhus.