Besides, a great share of the honour of reducing the Samnites was attributed to the lieutenants-general, Publius Decius and Marcius Valerius: whom, at the next election, the people, with universal consent, declared the one consul, the other praetor.
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To Fabius, in consideration of his extraordinary merit in the conquest of Etruria, the consulship was continued.

Decius was appointed his colleague.

Valerius was created praetor a fourth time.
The consuls divided the provinces between them.

Etruria fell to Decius, Samnium to Fabius.