In Ltrllrla Uy the conspiracy trials winch the senate had ordered him to conduct, he named a Dictator to preside. ，XXVII. Distribution o f the Commands. In the beginning_ of the following year the consuls M. 5ervihus and Tibenus Claudius convened the senate in the Capitol to decide the allocation of the provinces. As they both wanted Africa they were anxious to. ballot for that province and for Italy. Mainly,_ however, owing to， the ettoA e . .t少of Q.典etellus,。 nothing was.呼ecided. about Africa;the consuls were instructed to arrange with the tribunes of the plebs for a vote of the people to be taken as to whom they wished to conduct the war in Africa. The tribes were unanimously in favour of P. Scipio. In spite of this the senate decreed that the two consuls should 饮山of and Africa, was drawn by Ti. Claudius, who was to take across a fleet of fifty vessels-all quinqueremes-and exercise the same powers as Scipio. Etruria fell to M. Servilius. C. Servilius who had held that province had his command extended in case the senate should require his presence in Rome. The praetors were distributed as follows: M. Sextius received Gaul and P. Quintilius Yarus. was to_..脚d.over two legions which he had there; t;. Livius was to hold Bruttium with the two legions which .Sempronius had commanded 比ere the vear before;Cnaeus Tremellius was sent to Sicily and took over the two legions Tappulus, the praetor of the previous year; rapacity of propraetor was furnished with twenty warships and iooo men for the protection of the Sicilian coast;- M. Pom porous was to in the twen remainii ig ships. The into the ham tyds of C. Aurelius Cotta. The other commands were unchanged. the 月Sixteen legions were cAPfpnrp of the dnminlnn f忠黔sufficient this year for In order that all things be undertaken and carried out with the favour of the was decided that before the consuls took the field they should celebrate the Games and offer the sacrifices which T. Manlius the， Dictator had vowed during the consulship of皿.Uaudius Marcellus and "1’。 Quinctius.吐the ，，.，、，...·……1二‘ repuDuc snouia maintain its position unimpaired ror five years. The Games were celebrated in the Circus, the celebration lasting four days; and the victims vowed to the several deities were duly sacrificed.