Distribution of the commands.-The consuls now brought before the senate the allocation of provinces. It was decided that they should ballot for Aetolia and Asia. The one to whom Asia fell was to take over L. Scipio's army together with reinforcements amounting to 40oo Roman infantry and aoo cavalry and 8ooo infantry with 400 cavalry furnished by the Latins and allies. With this force he was to conduct the war with Antiochus. The other consul was to take over the army in Aetolia, and he was commissioned to raise reinforcements in the same number and proportion as his colleague. He was also required to fit out and take with him the ships which had been got ready the year before, and not to confine his operations to Aetolia, but to sail across to the island of alania. He was further requested to gu to Rome for the elec s, if he could do so consistently with the interests of the State, for in addition to the appointment of the annual magistrates it was resolved that censors also should be chosen. If circumstances prevented his leavinLy his post. he 1，.尸几产 was to inform the senate that he could not be present at that time. Aetolia fell to M. Fulvius and Asia to Cn. Manlius. The praetors' ballot followed. Sp. Postumius Albinus received the cjvic and alien jurisdiction; M. Sempronius Tuditanus, Sicily;Q. Fabius Pictor--the Flamen Quirinalis-obtained Sardini(-+;Q. Fabius Labeo was assigned the naval command; Hither "--oain fell to L. Plautius Hypsaeus, and Further Spain to L. BaeAus Dives. It was decreed that one legion and the fleet which was in the province at the time should be allotted to Sicily, and. also. that the new praetor should。order the_ Sicilians to. supply two-tenths of.their， corn, one-tenth.to De sent， into _gsia, the other into Aetolia. -hlle same requisition was mace on Sardinia, and that corn was to be sent to the same armies as the Sicilian supply. L. Baebius in Spain received reinforcements to the extent of i ooo infantry and Soo cavalry, as well as 6ooo infantry and Zoo cavalry from the Latins and allies, so that each of the Spanish provinces might have one legion in full strength. Amongst the magistrates of the previous vear。 几J， C. Laelius retained his province and his army for another year, as did also P. Junius in Etruria and M .Tuccius in Bruttium and Apulia.