The people of Perusia, Clusium, and Rusella furnished firs for building ships, and a great quantity of corn.
Scipio had firs out of the public woods.

The states of Umbria, and, besides them, the people of Nursia, Reate, and Amiternum, and all those of the Sabine territory, promised soldiers.

Many of the Marsians, Pelignians, and Marrucinians volunteered to serve in the fleet.

The Cameritans, as they were joined with the Romans in league on equal terms, sent an armed cohort of six hundred men.

Having laid the keels of thirty ships, twenty of which were quinqueremes, and ten quadriremes, he prosecuted the work with such diligence, that, on the forty-fifth day after the materials were taken from the woods, the ships, being fully equipped and armed, were launched.
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