39.3
In Gaul
all was peaceful, but the praetor M. Furius, anxious to make it appear as
though he were engaged in war, deprived the unoffending Cenomani of their
arms. They sent to Rome to complain and were referred by the senate to
Aemilius, who was empowered to investigate the case. There was a long and
heated debate with the praetor, but they maintained their ground throughout,
and Furius was ordered to restore their arms and leave his province. The
senate then gave audience to the deputations who had come from all the
cities and colonies of the Latin allies. Their grievance was that a large
number of their citizens had migrated to Rome and were placed on the
census there. Q. Terentius Culleo, one of the praetors, was charged with the
task of finding them out, and whoever was proved to have been registered at
home during the censorship of C. Claudius and M. Livius or their successors,
he was to order his return to the city in which he had been registered; 12,000
Latins returned in consequence to their homes. Even then the City was
overcrowded by the multitude of immigrants.
