the city, to receive from Quinctius a recital of his services; and, with high satisfaction, a well-merited triumph was decreed him.  His triumph lasted three days.  On the first day were carried in procession, armour, weapons, brazen and marble statues of which he had taken greater numbers from Philip than from the states of Greece.  On the second, gold and silver wrought, unwrought, and coined.  Of unwrought silver, there were eighteen thousand pounds’ weight; and of wrought, two hundred and seventy thousand; consisting of many vessels of various sorts, most of them engraved, and several of exquisite workmanship; also a great many others made of brass; and besides these, ten shields of silver.  The coined silver amounted to eighty-four thousand of the Attic coin, called Tetradrachmus, containing each of silver about the weight of four denarii.[1] Of gold there were three thousand seven hundred and fourteen pounds, and one shield wholly of gold:  and of the gold coin called Philippics, fourteen thousand five hundred and fourteen.[2] On the third day were carried golden crowns, presented by the several states, in number one hundred and fourteen; then the victims.  Before his chariot went many illustrious persons, captives and hostages, among whom were Demetrius, son of king Philip, and Armenes, a Lacedaemonian, son of the tyrant Nabis.  Then Quinctius himself rode into the city, followed by a numerous body of soldiers, as the whole army had been brought home from the province.  Among these he distributed two hundred and fifty asses[3] to each footman, double to a centurion, triple to a horseman.  Those who had been redeemed from captivity added to the grandeur of the procession, walking after him with their heads shaven.

[Footnote 1:  10,849l. 18s.]

[Footnote 2:  936l. 10s.]

[Footnote 3:  16s. 1-1/4d.]

53.  In the latter part of this year Quintus Aelius Tubero, plebeian tribune, in pursuance of a decree of the senate, proposed to the people, and the people ordered, that “two Latin colonies should be settled, one in Bruttium, the other in the territory of Thurium.”  For making these settlements commissioners were appointed, who were to hold the office for three years; for Bruttium, Quintus Naevius, Marcus Minucius Rufus, and Marcus Furius Crassipes; and for the district of Thurium, Cneius Manlius, Quintus Aelius, and Lucius Apustius.  The assemblies of election to these two appointments were held in the Capitol by Cneius Domitius, city praetor.  Several temples were dedicated this year:  one of Juno Sospita, in the herb market, vowed and contracted for four years before, in the time of the Gallic war, by Cneius Cornelius, consul; and the same person, now censor, performed the dedication.  Another of Faunus, the building of which had been agreed for two years before, and a fund formed for it out of fines estreated by the aediles, Caius Scribonius and Cneius Domitius; the latter of whom, now city praetor,