Military Dispositions for the Year.-The new consuls, Cn, Fulvius Centimalus and P. Sulpicius Galba, entered upon office on the isth of March, and at once convened a meeting of the senate in the Capitol to discuss questions of State, the conduct of the war and t恤distribution of the provinces and the armies· The retiring consuls--Q. Fulvius and Appius Claudius-retained their- commands and were instructed to prosecute the siege of Capua unremittingly until they had effected its capture. The recovery of this city was the main concern of the Romans now. What determined them was not only the bitter resentment which its defection had evoked, a feeling which was never more justified in'the case of any city, but also the certainty they felt that, as in its revolt it had drawn many communities NNrith it, owing to its greatness and strength, so its recapture would create amongst these communities a feeling of respect for the power whose sovereignty they had formerly acknowledged. The praetors of the past year, M. Junius in Etruria and P. Sem- onius in Gaul, had their commands extended and were each 讲to the two le彭ons they had. M.Marcellus was to act proconsul and finish. the war in Sicily with the army whichT0 7 f ., ahb See had. it he neeaea reinforcements he was to take them from troops which’P. Cornelius was commanding in Sicily, but none were to be selected from those who had been forbidden by the senate to take a furlough or return home before the end of the war. The province of Sicily was assigned to C. Sulpicius, and he 二was to take over the two legions which were with P. Cornelius; any- reinforcements he needed were to be supplied from the. .army of Cn. Fulvius which had been so disgracefully routed and cut up the previous year in Apulia. The soldiers who had so disgraced themselves were placed under the same. conditions with regard to length of service as the survivors of Cannae. As an additional brand of ijznominy the men of both these armies were toraiaaen to winter in towns or to construct winter ers柳thems弓ves within ten mules of any town.. The twoAr * Is , -. ‘wnicn壁.mucius had commanded in Sardinia were given to I,. Cornelius., and any additional 呼force he might require,f% . "" 40 r .<-r was to be raised by the consuls. T.， vzacilxus and m。valenus were ordered to cruise off the coasts of Sicily and Greece respectively with the fleets and soldiers they had previously commanded. The former had a