The Elections.-The time was approaching for the elections and it was decided that they should be conducted by a Dicta C. Claudius Nero named his colleague M. Livius as Dicta and he -nominated Q. Caecilius as his Master of the Horse. L. Veturius and Q. Caecilius were both elected consuls. Then came the election of praetors;those appointed were C. Servilius, M. Caecilius Metellus, Tiberius Claudius Asellus and Q. Mamilius Turrinus, who was a plebeian aedile at the time. When the elections were over, the Dictator laid down his office and after .disbanding his army went on a mission to Etruria. He had been commissioned by the senate to hold an enquiry as to which .cantons in Etruria had entertained the design of deserting to Hasdrubal as soon as he appeared, and also which of them had assisted him with supplies, or men, or in any other way. Such were the events of the year at home and abroad. The Roman Games were celebrated in full on three successive days by the curule aediles, Cnaeus Servilius Caepio and Servilius Cornelius Lentulus;similarly the Plebeian Games were celebrated by the plebeian aediles, M。Pomponius Matho and Q. Mamilius Turrinus. It was now the thirteenth year of the Punic War. Both the consuls, L. Veturius Philo and Q. Caecilius Metellus, had the same province--Bruttium-assigned to them, that they might jointly carry on operations against Hannibal. The praetors ballofbale d loted for their1 provinces. M. Caecilius Metellus obtained the City j u isdiction:0. Mamilius. that over aliens. Sicily fell to C. Servil ius and Sardinia to Ti. Claudius. _The、_Vilitary Dispositions for the Year.-The armies were distributed as follows:One of the consuls took overNero's army;the other, that which Q.M Claudius had commanded; each consisted、of two legions. .Livius，who was acting as proconsul for the year, took over from C. Terentius the two legions of volunteer slaves in Etruria b It was also decreed that Q. Mamilius, to whom the jurisdiction over aliens had been allotted, should transfer his judicial business to his colleague, and hold Gaul with the army which L. Porcius had commanded as propraetor;he was also instructed to ravage the fields of those Gauls who had gone over to the Carthaginians on the arrival of Hasdrubal. C. Servilius was to protect Sicily, as C. Mamilius had done, with the two legions of the survivors of Cannae. The old army in Sardinia, under A. Hostilius, was recalled, and the consuls enrolled a new legion which Tiberius Claudius was to take with him to the island. A year's extension of command was granted to Q. Claudius, that he might remain in charge at Tarentum, and to C. Hostilius Tubero, that he iv 749 F might continue to act at Capua. M. Valerius, who had been charged with.the defence of the Sicilian seaboard, was ordered to hand over thirty ships to the praetor, C. Servilius and return to Rome with the rest of his fleet.