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History of Rome, Vol III

BOOK XXXI
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He carried into the treasury three hundred and twenty thousand _asses_,[1] and one hundred and seventy thousand pounds' weight of silver.

There were neither any prisoners led before his chariot, nor spoils carried before him, nor did any soldiers follow him.

It appeared that every thing, except the victory, belonged to the consul.

The games which Publius Scipio had vowed when consul in Africa, were then celebrated, in a magnificent manner and with respect to the lands for his soldiers, it was decreed, that whatever number of years each of them had served in Spain or in Africa, he should, for every year, receive two acres; and that ten commissioners should distribute that land.

Three commissioners were then appointed to fill up the number of colonists at Venusia, because the strength of that colony had been reduced in the war with Hannibal: Caius Terentius Varro, Titus Quintius Flamininus, Publius Cornelius, son of Cneius Scipio, enrolled the colonists for Venusia.


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