37.2
The
praetors then balloted for their provinces. L. Aurunculeius received the
urban and Cneius Fulvius the alien jurisdiction; L. Aemilius Regillus the
command of the fleet; P. Junius Brutus the administration of Etruria; M.
Tuccius, Apulia and Bruttium; and C. Atinius, Sicily. The consul to whom
Greece had been decreed, in addition to the army of two legions which he
was to take over from Manius Acilius, was further reinforced by 3000
Roman infantry and 100 cavalry and allied troops to the number of 5000
infantry and 200 cavalry. It was further decided that after he had arrived in
his province he should, if he thought it expedient, take his army into Asia.
The other consul was supplied with an entirely fresh army, two Roman
legions and 15,000 infantry and 600 cavalry from the allies. Q. Minucius had
written to say that his province was pacified and the whole of the Ligurians
had made their surrender; he was now ordered to take his army into the
country of the Boii and hand it over to P. Cornelius, who was acting as
proconsul. The city legions which had been raised the previous year were to
be withdrawn from the territory of which the Boii had been mulcted after
their defeat and given to the praetor M. Tuccius. These, reinforced by
15,000 allied infantry and 600 cavalry, were to occupy Apulia and Bruttium.
A. Cornelius, who had commanded in Bruttium as praetor during the past
year, received instructions to transfer his legions to Aetolia if the consul
approved and hand them over to Manius Acilius in case he wished to remain
there, but if Acilius preferred to return to Rome, Cornelius was to keep that
army in Aetolia. It was further arranged that C. Atinius Labeo should take
over the province of Sicily and the army of occupation from M. Aemilius and
raise reinforcements if he wished to do so in the island itself to the number of
2000 infantry and 100 cavalry. P. Junius Brutus was to raise a new army for
service in Etruria consisting of one Roman legion and 10,000 infantry and
400 cavalry of allied troops. L. Aemilius, to whom the naval command had
fallen, was to receive from his predecessor, M. Junius, twenty ships of war
with their crews and to enlist in addition 1000 seamen and 2000 infantry
soldiers to serve as marines. With his fleet thus manned he was to proceed to
Asia and take over the fleet which C. Livius had commanded. The praetors
commanding in the two Spains were continued in office and retained their
armies. Sicily and Sardinia were each required to supply two-tenths of their
corn harvest for the year; the whole of the corn from Sicily was to be
transported to Aetolia for the use of the army, that from Sardinia was to go
partly to Rome and partly to Aetolia, like the corn from Sicily.