At the close of the delegate's speech, Q. Fabius enquired whether they had laid their complaints before Scipio. They stated in reply that they had sent a deputation to him, but he was fully occupied with his preparations for war and had either sailed or was going to sail in a very few days for Africa. They had had proof of the high favour in which Pleminius stood with his commander-in-chief, for after investigating the circumstances which led to the dispute between him and the military tribunes Scipio had thrown the tribunes into chains and allowed his subordinate to retain his command though he was equally or even more guiltv. Thev were then ordered to withdraw, and in the discussion wiuch tonowea Dom riemimus ana 6cipio were very severely handled by the leaders of the House, especially by Quintus Fabius. He declared that Scipio was born to destrov all militarv aiscipme. It was the same in 6pain:more men had been lost tnere in mutiny tnan in battle. tiis conduct was that of some foreign tyrant, first indulging the licence of the soldiers and then punishing them. Fabius closed his attack with the follow-- 势g drastic resoluT 1 t气ion:“I.move that犷leminius be brought to Mine to plead his cause in cnalns. and it the charges wnicn X，、沙 the Locrians have brought against him are substantiated, that he be put to death in prison and his property confiscated. With regard to Publius Scipio, as he has left his province without orders, I move that he be recalled and that it be referred to the tribunes of the plebs to bring in a bill before the Assembly to relieve him of his command. As to the Locrians, I that they be brought back into the House, and that we them in reply to their complaint that the senate and the alike disapprove of what has been done. and that we recognise ‘J.， them as good and trusty allies and friends. And, further, that their wives and children and all that has been taken away from them be restored, and that all the money abstracted from Proserpine's treasury be collected, and double the amount put The question of expiation must be referred to the pontifical e, who must decide what expiatory rites are to be observed, deities are to be propitiated and what victims are to be sacrificed in cases where sacred treasures have been violated. The soldiers at Locri must be transferred to Sicily and four Latin cohorts sent to garrison the place." Owing to the heated debate between Scipio's supporters ODDOnents the votes could not be collected that day '2 Not only had he to bear the odium of Ylemlnius' criminal brutality towards the Locrians, but the Roman commander was even taunted with his style of dress as being un-Roman and even unsoldierly. It was asserted that he walked about the gymnasium in a Greek mantle and Greek slippers and spent his time amongst rhetoricians and athletes and that the whole of his staff were eniovine the attractions of Svracuse and living a life of similar sect-inaulgence ana erreminacy. 1 ney naa compieteiy Lost 吨ht of Hannibal and the Carthaginians;the entire army was demoralised and out of hand;like the one formerly at Sucro