Distribution o f the Civil and Military Commands一 It was now the eleventh year of the Punic War when M.Marcellus and T. Quinctius Crispinus entered upon their duties as consuls. Reckoning the consulship to which Marcellus had been elected, but in which, owing to some flaw in his election, he did not act, this was the fifth time he had held the office. Italy was assigned to both consuls as their province, and the two armies which the previous consuls had had, and a third which Marcellus had commanded and which was at the time in Venusia, were all placed at their disposal so that they could select which of the three they chose. The remaining one would then be given to the commander to whom Tarentum and the Sallentini should be allotted. The other spheres were allocated as follows: P. Licinius Varus was placed in charge of the city jurisdiction P. Licinius Crassus the Pontifex Maximus hack J““曰分‘勺.‘U“，~’~‘~““一甘~“’.“一~““~一甘“，“，‘.幻‘~“““、 the jurisdiction over aliens and also wherever the senate might determine. Sicily was allotted to Sextus Julius Caesar, Taren- ’tum to Q. Claudius the Fiamen. Q. Fulvius Flaccus had his command extended for a year and was to hold the district of Capua, which T. Quinctius had previously held as praetor, with one legion.C. Hostilius Tubulus also had his command extended, he was to succeed C. Calpurnius as propraetor with two legions in Etruria. A similar extension of command was granted to L. Veturius Philo, who was to remain in Gaul as DrODraetor with the two legions he had previously commanded. The same order was made in the case of C. Aurunculeius.who had administered Sardinia as praetor;the fifty ships which P. Scipio.was to send from Spain were. assigned to him for theP 1 T n . 7 11 r h " 1 protection or his province. r. Scipio and Ivl·,wianus were confirmed in their commands for another year. Out of the ships which Scipio had brou t with him from Italy or captured from the Carthaginians-ei 99奋L hhh ty in all--he was instructed to send fifty to Sardinia, as ere were rumours of extensive naval preparations at Carthage,. It was said.that they were fitting OUT Zoo snips to menace the whole of the Italian, Sicilian and Sardinian coasts. In Sici it was arranged that the army of Cannae should be given y‘0 Caesar whilst M. Valerius Sextus Laevinus, whose command had also been extended, was to retain the fleet of seventy ships which was stationed off Sicily, and augment it with the thirty vessels which had lain at Tarentum du ring the past year. This fleet of one hundred ships he was to employ, if he thought good, in harrying the African seaboard. P. Sulpicius was to continue to hold Macedonia and Greece in check with the fleet which he had. There was no change in the case of the two legions which were quartered in the City. The consuls were commissioned to raise fresh troops where it was necessary, in order to bring up the leg: to their proper strength. Thus one-and-twenty egions were under arms to defend the Roman empire. P. Licinius Varus.the City praetor. was charged with the task ot retitting the thirty old warships which were laid up at Ostia. and manning with their full complement twentv new ones. so that he might have a fleet ot htty ships for the vrotection of that part of the。 coast which，was nearest to Rome., " r t,. Ca1purnius receivea strict oraers not to move his army from Arretium before the arrival of Tubulus who was to succeed him;Tubulus was also enjoined to be especially on his guard in case any revolutionary projects were formed.