43.
When the people of Pisa offered land to which a Latin colony should be led, they received the thanks of the senate; for this purpose Quintus [p. 137]Fabius Buteo and Marcus and Publius Popilius Laenas1 were elected members of a board of three.
[2]
From the praetor Gaius Maenius, to whom, although the province of Sardinia had fallen to his lot, had been assigned the additional task of investigating cases of poisoning beyond ten miles from the City, a letter was received
[3??]
which said that he had already condemned three thousand persons, and that the investigation was assuming larger proportions by reason of the evidence received: he said that he would be compelled either to discontinue the investigation or give up his province.
[4]
Quintus Fulvius Flaccus returned from Spain to Rome, having earned great acclaim by his exploits; while he was waiting outside the City for the sake of a triumph, he was elected consul with Lucius Manlius Acidinus,2 and a few days later rode into the
[5??]
City in triumph, accompanied by the soldiers whom he had brought back with him.
[6]
He displayed in his triumph one hundred and twenty-four golden crowns and in addition thirty-one pounds of gold, of unwrought silver. . .3 of minted coins of Osca4 one hundred and seventy-three thousand two hundred.
[7]
To each of the infantry he gave out of the booty fifty denarii, twice that sum to the centurions and thrice to each of the cavalry, and the same amounts to the allies of the Latin confederacy,5 and to all double pay.
1 B.C. 180
2 Fulvius and Manlius were brothers (Fasti; Velleius II. viii. 2). This election, followed by that of M. Fulvius Nobilior as censor (xlv. 6 below), marks the climax of the political ascendancy of the Fulvii.
3 It is not difficult to supply argenti infecti, but the insertion of an indication of quantity would be purely a guess.
4 Cf. XXXIV. x. 4 and the note.
5 One might infer that the Latins did not usually receive the bonus.
Livy. Books XL-XLII With An English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1938: published without copyright notice.
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