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Aquileia, a city situated on land
belonging to the Gauls, received this year a body of Latin colonists; 3000
infantry soldiers were settled there, and each man was allotted 50 jugera, the
centurions 100, and the cavalry men 140. The supervisors of the settlement
were P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, C. Flaminius and L. Manlius Acidinus. Two
temples were dedicated during the year, one to Venus Erycina, by the Porta
Collina -this temple had been vowed by L. Porcius in the Ligurian war and
was dedicated by his son -the other, the temple of Pietas in the Forum
Olitorium. Manius Acilius Glabrio dedicated this temple and set up a gilt
statue of his father Glabrio, the first gilded statue to be set up in Italy. He
had himself vowed this temple on the day of his battle with Antiochus at
Thermopylae and had also contracted for the building of it in accordance
with a resolution of the senate. At the time of the dedication of these temples
L. Aemilius Paulus celebrated his triumph over the Ingauni. Twenty-five
golden crowns were borne in the procession; there was no other gold or
silver in the triumph. Many Ligurian chiefs walked as prisoners before his
chariot. To each soldier he gave as his share of the booty 300 ases. His
triumph was notable for the presence of Ligurian envoys who had come to
pray for a perpetual peace. So thoroughly had he made that people
understand that they must never again take up arms except at the bidding of
Rome. By order of the senate the praetor informed them in answer to their
request that this was no new petition on the part of the Ligurians, there must
be a new spirit and temper corresponding to it, and this rested above all with
themselves. They must go to the consuls and carry out whatever they
ordered. The senate would not believe that the Ligurians meant honestly and
sincerely to keep the peace on any one's word but the consuls'. Peace was
established with them. In Corsica there was fighting with the natives, M.
Pinarius slew 2000 of them in battle. Through this defeat they were driven to
give hostages and also 100,000 pounds of wax. Pinarius took his army to
Sardinia and fought successful actions with the Ilienses, a tribe which to this
day is not thoroughly pacified. In the course of this year the hundred
hostages were restored to the Carthaginians and the Roman people brought
about peace not only on their side, but also on the side of Masinissa, who
was in forcible occupation of the disputed territory.
