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ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

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ex Gallia legatos Placentinorum et Cremonensium L. Aurunculeius praetor insenatum introduxit. Us querentibus inopiam colonorum, aliis belli casibus, aliismorbo absumptis, quosdam taedio accolarum Gallorum reliquisse colonias,decreuit senatus, uti C. Laelius consul, si ei uideretur, sex milia familiarumconscriberet, quae in eas colonias diuiderentur, et ut L. Aurunculeius praetortriumuiros crearet ad eos colonos deducendos. creati M. Atilius Serranus L.Ualerius P.f. Flaccus L. Ualerius C.f. Tappo. Haud ita multopost, cum iamconsularium comitiorum appeteret tempus, C. Laelius consul ex Gallia Romamrediit. is non solum ex facto absente se senatus consulto in supplementumCremonae et Placentiae colonos scripsit, sed, ut nouae coloniae duae in agrum,qui Boiorum fuisset, deducerentur, et rettulit et auctore eopatres censuerunt.Livy 37.46.9-47.2A deputation arrived from Placentia and Cremona in Gaul, and were introduced tothe senate by L. Aurunculeius. They complained of the scarcity of men; some hadbeen carried off by the casualties of war, others by illness, and some had leftowing to the annoyance from the Gauls in their neighborhood. The senate decreedthat the consul C. Laelius should, if he approved, draw up a list of 6000 familiesto be distributed between the two colonies, and L. Aurunculeius was to nominatethe commissioners for settling the new colonists. Those nominated were M.Atilius Serranus, L. Valerius, P. F. Flaccus, L. Valerius and C. F. Tappo. [37.47]Not long afterwards, as the date of the consular elections was approaching, theconsul C. Laelius returned from Gaul. In pursuance of the decree which the senatehad made before his arrival, he enrolled colonists to reinforce the population ofCremona and Placentia, and he also brought forward a proposal which the senateadopted for founding two new colonies on land which had belonged to the Boii.(Trans. Roberts)eodem anno ante diem tertium Kal. Ianuarias Bononiam Latinam coloniam exsenatus consulto L. Ualerius Flaccus M. Atilius Serranus L. Ualerius Tappotriumuiri deduxerunt. tria milia hominum sunt deducta; equitibus septuagenaiugera, ceteris colonis quinquagena sunt data, ager captus de Gallis Boisfuerat;Galli Tuscos expulerant. Livy 37.57.7-8On December 13th of this year the colony of Bononia was founded in pursuanceof a senatorial decree, the three commissioners being L. Valerius Flaccus, M.Atilius Serranus and L. Valerius Tappo. The colonists numbered 3000; the equitesreceived each seventy iugera, the other settlers fifty. The land had been takenfrom the Boii who had themselves formerly expelled the Etruscans from it.(Trans. Roberts)Sipontum and Buxentum (suppl): (Livy 39.23.3-4)extremo anni, quia Sp. Postumius consul renuntiauerat peragrantem se propterquaestiones utrumque litus Italiae desertas colonias Sipontum supero, Buxentuminfero mari inuenisse, triumuiri ad colonos eo scribendos ex senatus consulto ab259

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