Syphax, having married a daughter of Hasdrubal, renounces his alliance with Scipio.

Masinissa, who had been expelled his kingdom by Syphax, joins Scipio with two hundred horsemen; they defeat a large army commanded by Hanno.
Hasdrubal and Syphax approach with a most numerous force.
Scipio raises the siege of Utica, and fortifies a post for the winter.

The consul Sempronius gets the better of Hannibal in a battle near Croton.

Dispute between Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero, censors._ 1.

Scipio, after his arrival in Sicily, formed his volunteers into cohorts and centuries.