Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 39
Evan T. Sage, Ph.D., Ed.

55. The Roman ambassadors were graciously answered by the Transalpine peoples. Their elders [p. 395]reproved the Roman people for their excessive¹ [2??] lenience, because those men who had set out without the permission of their state and had attempted to occupy land belonging to the Roman empire and to build a town on others' soil had been let go unpunished: they should have been made to pay a heavy toll for their rash action. [3] Moreover, as to the restoration of their property, the elders feared that such generosity might tempt more peoples to try the same venture. [4] The ambassadors were both received and sent on their way with gifts.

Marcus Claudius the consul, having expelled the Gauls from the province, began to scheme for a war with the Histrians,² sending letters to the senate for permission to lead the legions into Histria. [5] This did not please the senate. They were discussing the question of establishing a colony at Aquileia, but it was not generally agreed whether it should be a Latin colony or one of Roman citizens. Finally, the Fathers voted that a Latin colony rather should be founded. [6] The three commissioners elected were Publius Scipio Nasica, Gaius Flaminius, Lucius Manlius Acidinus.

In the same year Mutina and Parma, colonies of Roman citizens, were established. [7] Two thousand men in each case were settled on the land that had recently belonged to the Boi³ and previously to the Etruscans, and the allotments at Parma were eight iugera each, at Mutina five. [8] The board of three which founded them consisted of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Titus Aebutius Parrus, Lucius Quinctius Crispinus. [9] Also, a colony of Roman citizens was established at Saturnia in the ager Caletranus.⁴ The board of three [p. 397]which founded it consisted of Quintus Fabius Labeo,⁵ Gaius Afranius Stellio, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. Ten iugera were given to each colonist.