Meanwhile, in Rome… The consuls then were Publius Cornelius Scipio and Tiberius Sempronius Longus.  Shortly after the Saguntine ambassadors arrived in Rome appealed for help, news arrives that Saguntum is besieged.  The Senate was in an uproar—the treaty had been broken. After clamoring debate, it was decided that ambassadors should be sent to Spain to warn you to cease your attack. And if you were to not desist from war, then the ambassadors would go on to Carthage to demand atonement for the violation of the treaty. This opinion, which seemed the safest, prevailed.  


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