These were the transactions at home and abroad during that year.
18.

The following year was disastrous, whether by the intemperature of the air, or by human guilt, Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Caius Valerius being consuls.

I find in the annals Flaccus and Potitus variously given as the surname of the consul; but in this it is of little consequence which is the true one.

I would heartily wish that this other account were a false one, (nor indeed do all writers mention it,) viz.

that those persons, whose death rendered the year signal for the pestilence, were carried off by poison.