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In regard to Hasdrubal's coming to Italy anxiety was daily increasing. First, ambassadors from Massilia
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had announced that he had passed over into Gaul, and that the Gauls
[3] After that, Sextus Antistius and Marcus Raecius, who were sent with them from Rome as ambassadors to look into the matter, had reported that with Massilians as guides they had sent men to ascertain all the facts through leading Gauls who were guestfriends of their guides, and to report;
[4] that they had established that Hasdrubal with a huge army already concentrated would cross the Alps the next spring, and that at that time nothing else was detaining him than that the Alps were closed by the winter.
[5] In place of Marcus Marcellus as augur Publius Aelius Paetus was elected and installed; and Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella was installed as
rex sacrorum in place of Marcus Marcius, who had died two years before.
[6] Also in the same year the lustration was completed
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by the censors, Publius Sempronius Tuditanus and Marcus Cornelius Cethegus.
[7] Enrolled in the census were 137,108 citizens, a considerably smaller number than it had been before the war.
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In that year for the first time since Hannibal had invaded Italy it is recorded that
[9] And they likewise gave three statues at the Temple of Ceres. There was also a banquet for Jupiter on account of the festival.
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Later on Gaius Claudius Nero and Marcus Livius
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entered upon their consulship, the latter for the second time.
[10] Because as consuls-elect they had already cast lots for their provinces, they ordered the praetors to cast lots.
[11] To Gaius Hostilius fell the city praetorship; the foreign praetorship also was assigned to him, to enable three praetors to go out to provinces.
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Sardinia fell to Aulus Hostilius, Sicily to Gaius Mamilius, Gaul to Lucius Porcius. The total of the legions was twenty-three, divided as follows among the provinces:
[12] the consuls were each to have two legions, Spain four, each of three praetors was to have two, in Sicily and Sardinia and Gaul, Gaius Terentius to
[13] have two in Etruria, Quintus Fulvius two in the land of the Bruttii, Quintus Claudius two in the vicinity of Tarentum and the Sallentini, Gaius Hostilius Tubulus one at Capua. Two city legions were to be enrolled.
[14] For the first four legions
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the people elected the tribunes, to the rest of the legions tribunes were sent by the consuls.
Ab urbe condita. Titus Livius (Livy). Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor). Medford, MA. .
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