This province fell to P. Sulpicius, an that he should propose to the Assembly th., lawless actions and armed attacks committed allies of Rome, it is the will and order of the Roman people that war 撬瞬恕against Philip, King ofMacedonians." Macedonia, and against TThe other consul, Aurelius, recThen the praetors balloted for恕 Italy for his province.
respective commands. C. Sergius Plancus drew the City; Q. Fulvius Gillo, Sicily; Q. Minucius Rufus, Bruttium, and L. Furius, Gaul.
‘llc F1 vFvacu UCA;UL d L1VIl Ul wdr agUH15L flaCeWnla Was almost unanimously rejected at the first meeting of the Assembly.2 The length and exhausting demands of the late war had made men weary of fighting and they shrank from incurring further toils and dangers. One of the tribunes of the plebs, Q. Baebius, too, had adopted the old plan of abusing the patricians for perpetually sowing the seeds of fresh wars to prevent the plebeians from ever enjoying any rest. The patricians were extremely angry and the tribune was bitterly attacked in the senate, each of the senators in turn urging the consul to call another meeting of the Assembly to consider the proposal afresh and at the same time to rebuke the people for their want of spirit and show them what loss and diserace would be .entailed by the postponement of that war.
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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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