§40.18.1comitia consulibus rogandis fuere: creati P. Cornelius Lentulus M. Baebius Tamphilus.
The comitia for electing consuls was held; Publius Cornelius Lentulus and Marcus Baebius Tamphilus were elected.
§40.18.2praetores inde facti duo Q. Fabii, Maximus et Buteo, Ti. Claudius Nero Q. Petilius Spurinus M. Pinarius Rusca L. Duronius.
Then the praetors were elected: two Quintus Fabii, Maximus and Buteo, Tiberius Claudius Nero, Quintus Petilius Spurinus, Marcus Pinarius Rusca, and Lucius Duronius.
§40.18.3his inito magistratu provinciae ita sorte evenerunt: Ligures consulibus, praetoribus Q. Petilio urbana, Q. Fabio Maximo peregrina, Q. Fabio Buteoni Gallia, Ti. Claudio Neroni Sicilia, M. Pinario Sardinia, L. Duronio Apulia; §40.18.4et Histri adiecti, quod Tarentini Brundisinique nuntiabant maritimos agros infestos transmarinarum navium latrociniis esse.
Upon their entering office, the provinces fell to them by lot as follows: Liguria to the consuls; of the praetors, the urban jurisdiction to Quintus Petilius, the foreign jurisdiction to Quintus Fabius Maximus, Gaul to Quintus Fabius Buteo, Sicily to Tiberius Claudius Nero, Sardinia to Marcus Pinarius, and Apulia to Lucius Duronius; and Histria was added, because the people of Tarentum and Brundisium reported that the coastal fields were infested by the piracy of ships from across the sea.
eadem Massilienses de Ligurum navibus querebantur.
The Massilians made the same complaint concerning the ships of the Ligurians.
§40.18.5exercitus inde decreti, quattuor legiones consulibus, quae quina milia ducenos Romanos pedites, trecenos haberent equites, et quindecim milia socium ac Latini nominis, octingenti equites.
Then the armies were decreed: four legions for the consuls, which were to contain five thousand two hundred Roman infantry and three hundred cavalry each, and fifteen thousand infantry and eight hundred cavalry of the allies and the Latin name.
§40.18.6in Hispaniis prorogatum veteribus praetoribus imperium est cum exercitibus, quos haberent, et in supplementum decreta tria milia civium Romanorulm ducenti equites, et socium Latini nominis sex milia peditum, trecenti equites.
In the Spains, the command was prolonged for the former praetors with the armies which they had, and as a reinforcement there were decreed three thousand Roman citizens and two hundred cavalry, and six thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry of the allies and the Latin name.
§40.18.7nec rei navalis cura omissa.
Nor was care for naval affairs neglected.
duumviros in eam rem consules creare iussi, per quos naves viginti deductae navalibus sociis civibus Romanis, qui servitutem servissent, complerentur, ingenui tantum ut iis praeessent.
The consuls were ordered to appoint duumviri for this purpose, through whom twenty ships, having been launched, were to be manned by naval allies who were Roman citizens that had served in slavery, with the condition that only free-born men should command them.
§40.18.8inter duumviros ita divisa tuenda denis navibus maritima ora, ut promunturium iis Minervae velut cardo in medio esset; alter inde dextram partem usque ad Massiliam, laevam alter usque ad Barium tueretur.
The coastal line to be protected with ten ships each was divided between the duumviri in such a way that the promontory of Minerva was to be, as it were, a hinge in the middle; one of them was to protect the right-hand part from there as far as Massilia, the other the left-hand part as far as Barium.