 At the end of the year, soon after the elections of the new consuls and praetors, news arrived that the army of Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus had been routed in Hispania Citerior and that the praetor had been mortally wounded.There is no record of what happened in Hispania Ulterior.In 196 BC, Hispania Ulterior was assigned to "Quintus Fabius Buteo" and Hispania Citerior to Quintus Minucius Thermus.