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Both the consuls set out into Liguria, which at that time was the only consular province.
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A supplication for one day was decreed because prosperity had attended their affairs in that quarter. About two thousand Ligurians came to the extreme borders of the Gallic province, where Marcellus lay encamped, requesting him to receive their submission.
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Marcellus, having ordered the Ligurians to wait in the same place, consulted the senate through the medium of a letter.
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The senate ordered Marcus Ogulnius, praetor, to write back to Marcellus, that "it would have been more proper for the consuls, whose province it was, than for them, to decide what might tend to the interest of the republic;
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that in this case [p. 1873]too it was their pleasure, if he should receive the surrender of the Ligurians, that their arms should not be taken from them when admitted to a surrender, and that the senate thought proper that the Ligurians should be sent to the consul.
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The praetors arrived at the same time in Spain; Publius Manlius in the Farther province, which he had governed in his former praetorship, and Quintus Fulvius Flaccus in the Hither one, and he received the command of the army from Terentius; for the Farther province, by the death of the propraetor, Publius Sempronius, had been without a governor.
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The Celtiberians attacked Fulvius Flaccus while besieging a town of the Spaniards, called Urbicua. Many severe actions were fought there, and many of the Roman soldiers killed and wounded.
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They were vanquished by Fulvius' perseverance, because he could by no force be diverted from the siege; the Celtiberians, wearied out with so many battles, retired. The city, having lost their assistance, was within a few days taken and sacked; the praetor bestowed the booty on the soldiers.
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Fulvius having taken this town, and Publius Manlius having only gathered together his army, which had been scattered, without having achieved any other memorable action, led their armies into winter quarters.
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These were the transactions of that summer in Spain. Terentius, who had come home from that province, entered the city in ovation.
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He carried in the procession nine thousand three hundred and twenty pounds' weight of silver, eighty pounds' weight of gold, and two golden crowns of the weight of sixty-seven pounds.
Livy. History of Rome by Titus Livius, books thirty-seven to the end, with the epitomes and fragments of the lost books. literally translated, with notes and illustrations, by. William A. McDevitte. York Street, Covent Garden, London. Henry G. Bohn. John Child and son, printers, Bungay. 1850. 4.
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