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After
the triumph came the elections. The new consuls were L. Furius Purpurio
and M. Claudius Marcellus. The praetors elected the day following were Q.
Fabius Buteo, Tiberius Sempronius Longus, Q. Minucius Thermus, Manius
Acilius Glabrio, L. Apustius Fullo and C. Laelius. About the end of the year
despatches arrived from T. Quinctius stating that he had fought a pitched
battle with Philip in Thessaly, and that the enemy had been routed and put to
flight. These despatches were read by Sergius first in the senate and then,
with the sanction of the senate, at a meeting of the citizens. A five days'
thanksgiving was appointed for this success. The joint delegation from T.
Quinctius and Philip arrived soon afterwards. The Macedonians were
conducted to the Government building in the Campus Martius, where they
were accommodated as guests of the State. The senate received them in
audience in the temple of Bellona; no long speeches were made, for the
delegates simply stated that the king was prepared to act in accordance with
the wishes of the senate. Following the traditional usage, ten commissioners
were appointed to advise with T. Quinctius as to the terms on which peace
was to be granted to Philip, and a clause was added to the decree providing
that among the members of the commission should be included P. Sulpicius
and P. Villius, to whom Macedonia had been assigned as their province
when they were consuls. On the same day a petition was presented by the
inhabitants of Cosa praying that their numbers might be enlarged, and an
order was made for a thousand fresh colonists to be enrolled, no one to be
included in the number who had been an enemy alien since the consulship of
P. Cornelius and Tiberius Sempronius.
