The next day, when they had cooled upon it, and their trepidation had somewhat subsided, the principal men carried their point that they should collect all their property out of the fields, and fortify the city and the walls.
21.

Much about the same time letters were brought from Sicily and Sardinia.

That of Titus Otacilius the propraetor was first read in the senate.

It stated that Lucius Furius the praetor had arrived at Lilybaeum from Africa with his fleet.

That he himself, having been severely wounded, was in imminent danger of his life; that neither pay nor corn was punctually furnished to the soldiers or the marines; nor were there any resources from which they could be furnished.