The three appointed were, Publius and Sextus Aelius, both surnamed Paetus, and Caius Cornelius Lentulus.

The favour granted to the Narnians, of filling up their number of colonists, was refused to the people of Cossa, who applied for it.
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The consuls, having finished the business that was to be done at Rome, set out for their provinces.

Publius Villius, on coming into Macedonia, found the soldiers in a violent mutiny, which had been previously excited, and not sufficiently repressed at the commencement.

They were the two thousand who, after Hannibal had been vanquished, had been transported from Africa to Sicily, and then, in about a year after, into Macedonia, as volunteers; they denied, however, that this was done with their consent, affirming, that "they had been put on board the ships, by the tribunes, contrary to their remonstrances; but, in what manner soever they had become engaged in that service, whether it had been voluntarily undertaken or imposed on them, the time of it was now expired, and it was reasonable that some end should be put to their warfare.