Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 30
Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University, Ed.

41. Publius Scipio's command in his province of Africa was continued with the armies which he already had. Of the praetors Marcus Valerius Falto was assigned in the land of the Bruttians two legions which Gaius Livius had commanded in the preceding year; [2] Publius Aelius was to receive two legions in Sicily from Gnaeus Tremelius; Marcus Fabius was assigned for Sardinia the one legion which Publius Lentulus had held as propraetor. [3] For Marcus Servilius, consul in the previous year, his command in Etruria was continued, likewise with his own two legions. [4] As for the Spanish provinces, they said that for some years already Lucius Cornelius Lentulus and Lucius Manlius Acidinus had been there;¹ that the consuls should urge the tribunes, if it met with their approval, to bring before the people the question who by their decree should be commander in Spain. [5] Out of the two armies the general was to enrol Roman soldiers in a single legion and Latin allies in fifteen cohorts, in order that with these he might hold the province. As for the veterans, Lucius Cornelius and Lucius Manlius were to bring them back to Italy.² [6] The consul³ was assigned a fleet of fifty ships, made up from two fleets, that of Gnaeus Octavius, which was in African waters, and [p. 523]that of Publius Villius, which was defending the coast⁴ of Sicily, the consul being free to select such ships as he pleased. [7] Publius Scipio was to have the forty war-ships which he had before,⁵ and if he desired that Gnaeus Octavius should command them, as he had done, Octavius was to have military authority as propraetor for that year. [8] If he should name Laelius commander, Octavius was to leave the province for Rome and to bring back such ships as the consul did not need. Ten war-ships also were assigned to Marcus Fabius for Sardinia. [9] And the consuls were ordered to enrol two city legions, so that in that year the state was carried on with fourteen legions⁶ and a hundred war-ships.