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Seruilius Q. Caecilius Metellus C. et M. Seruilii—Geminis ambobus cognomenerat—L. etA. Hostilii Catones P. Villius Tappulus M. Fuluius Flaccus P. AeliusPaetus T. Quinctius Flamininus. Livy 31.4.1-3Towards the close of the year the question was brought up as to the holdingswhich were to be assigned to the veteran soldiers who had served with Scipio inAfrica. The senator decreed that M. Junius, the City praetor, should at hisdiscretion appoint ten commissioners for the purpose of measuring and allottingthat portion of the Samnite and Apulian territory which had become State domain.The commissioners were P. Servilius, Q. Caecilius Marcellus, the two Servilii,Caius and Marcus - who were known as "The Twins" - the two Hostilii Catones,Lucius and Aulus, P. Villius Tappulus, M. Fulvius Flaccus, P. Aelius Paetus andT. Quinctius Flamininus. (Trans. Roberts)Ludi deinde a P. Cornelio Scipione quos consul in Africa uouerat magnoapparatu facti. et de agris militum eius decretum ut quot quisque eorum annos inHispania aut in Africa militasset, in singulos annos bina iugera agri acciperet:eum agrum decemuiri adsignarent. triumuiri item creati ad supplendum Venusiniscolonorum numerum, quod bello Hannibalis attenuatae uires eius coloniae erant,C. Terentius Varro T. Quinctius Flamininus P. Cornelius Cn. f. Scipio; hi colonosVenusiam adscripserunt. Livy 31.49.4-6The Games which Scipio had vowed when he was proconsul in Africa werecelebrated with great splendour. A decree was made for the allotment of land tohis soldiers; each man was to receive two iugera for every year he had served inSpain or in Africa, and the decemviri managed the allotment. Commissionerswere also appointed to fill up the number of colonists at Venusia, as the strengthof that colony had been diminished in the war with Hannibal. C. Terentius Varro,T. Quinctius Flamininus and P. Cornelius, the son of Cnaeus Scipio, were thecommissioners who undertook the task. (Trans. Roberts)Movement of Ligurians to Apulia and Samnium (180 BCE)P. Cornelius et M. Baebius, qui in consulatu nihil memorabile gesserant, inApuanos Ligures exercitum induxerunt. Ligures, qui ante aduentum inprouinciam consulum non exspectassent bellum, improuiso oppressi sunt; adduodecim milia hominum dediderunt se. eos consultoper litter as prius senatudeducere ex montibus in agros campestres procul ab domo, ne reditus spes esset,Cornelius et Baebius statuerunt, nullum ahum antefinem rati fore Ligustini belli.Ager publicus populi Romani erat in Samnitibus, qui Taurasinorum traducere Ligures Apuanos uellent, edixerunt, ut Ligures Apuani demontibus descenderent cum liberis coniugibusque, sua omnia secum portarent.Ligures saepeper legatos deprecati, nepenates, sedem in quageniti essent,sepulcra maiorum cogerentur relinquere, arma obsides pollicebantur. postquamnihil impetrabant neque uires ad bellandum erant, edicto paruerunt. traducti suntpublico sumptu ad quadraginta milia liberorum capitum cumfeminispuerisque.265

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