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2. The praetors then drew for their provinces;1 Lucius Aurunculeius receiving the civil jurisdiction, Gnaeus Fulvius that between citizens and aliens, Lucius Aemilius Regillus the fleet, Publius Junius Brutus the Etruscans, Marcus Tuccius Apulia and the Brutti, Gaius Atinius Sicily. [2] Then for the consul to whom the province of Greece had been decreed, in addition to the army which he would take over from Manius Acilius —this now consisted of two legions2 —there [3] were authorized as reinforcements three thousand infantry of Roman citizens and one hundred cavalry, and of the allies of the Latin confederacy five thousand infantry and two hundred cavalry; it was also appended to this that when he arrived in the province, if the public interest seemed to demand it, he should lead the army over into Asia. [4] To the other consul an entirely new army was assigned, two Roman legions and of the allies of the Latin confederacy fifteen thousand infantry and six hundred cavalry. [5] Quintus Minucius was directed to transfer his army from the Ligures — for he had now written that the province had been completely reduced and that all the people of the Ligures had surrendered —to the territory of the Boii and hand it over to Publius Scipio the proconsul, who was removing the Boii from the land of which he had deprived them after their defeat in the war.3 [6] The two reserve legions4 which had been enlisted the year before were assigned to Marcus Tuccius, along with fifteen thousand infantry and six hundred cavalry of the allies of the Latin confederacy, to [p. 297]hold Apulia and the Brutti. [7] Aulus Cornelius,5 6 praetor of the preceding year, who had held the Brutti with an army, was ordered to transport the legions to Aetolia, if such was the pleasure of the consul, and turn them over to Manius Acilius, if he wished to remain there; if Acilius preferred to return to Rome, Aulus Cornelius with this army should remain in [8] Aetolia. Gaius Atinius Labeo, it was decided, should receive the province of Sicily and the army from Marcus Aemilius7 the praetor and as reinforcements should enrol from the province itself two thousand infantry and one hundred [9] cavalry. Publius Junius Brutus was instructed to enlist a new army to serve against the Etruscans, one Roman legion and ten thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry of the allies of the Latin [10] confederacy; Lucius Aemilius, to whom the maritime province had been allotted, was ordered to receive twenty warships and the naval allies from Marcus Junius, praetor of the previous year, to enrol himself a thousand naval allies and two thousand marines, to proceed with these ships and troops to Asia and to take over the fleet from Gaius [11] Livius. For the governors of the two Spains and Sardinia the imperium was prolonged for a year and the same armies [12] assigned. Two tithes of grain, just as in the preceding year,8 were levied upon Sicily and Sardinia; they ordered all the Sicilian grain to be transported to Aetolia, part of the Sardinian to Rome and part to Aetolia, the same destination as the Sicilian.

1 B.C. 190

2 This statement is inconsistent with that in XXXVI. xiv. 1.

3 Cf. XXXVI. xxxix. 3.

4 This statement is inconsistent with that in XXXVI. i. 9; like that in sect. 2 above, it is probably derived from a different annalistic source.

5 1 Cf. XXXVI. ii. 2.

6 B.C. 190

7 Livy says nothing about Valerius (XXXVI. ii. 11), who had shared the responsibility for Sicily.

8 Cf. XXXVI. ii. 12-13.

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