There was then no further doubt but that every one of the tribes would vote for the repeal of the law.
Thus was this law annulled, in the twentieth year after it had been made.

The consul Marcus Porcius, as soon as the Oppian law was abolished, sailed immediately, with twenty-five ships of war, of which five belonged to the allies, to the port of Luna, where he ordered the troops to assemble; and having sent an edict along the sea-coast, to collect ships of every description, at his departure from Luna he left orders that they should follow him to the harbour of Pyrenaeus, as he intended to proceed thence against the enemy with his collective fleet.

They accordingly, after sailing by the Ligurian mountains and the Gallic bay, congregated together on the day appointed.

From thence they went to Rhoda, and forcibly dislodged a garrison of Spaniards that were in that fortress.

From Rhoda they proceeded with a favourable wind to Emporiae, and there landed all the forces, excepting the crews of the ships.
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