He distributed to each of his soldiers seventy asses,[3] to a horseman and a centurion double that sum.  Quintus Minucius, consul, triumphed on the Alban mount, over the Ligurian and Boian Gauls.  Although this triumph was less respectable, in regard to the place and the fame of his exploits, and because all knew the expense was not issued from the treasury; yet, in regard of the number of standards, chariots, and spoils, it was nearly equal to the other.  The amount of the money also was nearly equal.  Two hundred and fifty-four thousand asses[4] were conveyed to the treasury, and of silver denarii, stamped with a chariot, fifty-three thousand two hundred.[5] He likewise gave to the soldiers, horsemen, and centurions, severally, the same sums that his colleague had given.

[Footnote 1:  766l. 18s. 6-1/2d]

[Footnote 2:  2551l. 0s. 10d]

[Footnote 3:  4s. 6-1/2d]

[Footnote 4:  820l. 4s. 2d]

[Footnote 5:  1717l. 18s. 4d]

24.  After the triumph, the election of consuls came on.  The persons chosen were Lucius Furius Purpureo and Marcus Claudius Marcellus.  Next day, the following were elected praetors; Quintus Fabius Buteo, Tiberius Sempronius Longus, Quintus Minucius Thermus, Manius Acilius Glabrio, Lucius Apustius Fullo, and Caius Laelius.  Toward the close of this year, a letter came from Titus Quinctius, with information that he had fought a pitched battle with Philip in Thessaly, and that the army of the enemy had been routed and put to flight.  This letter was read by Sergius, the praetor, first in the senate, and then, by the direction of the fathers, in a general assembly; and supplications of five days’ continuance were decreed on account of those successes.  Soon after arrived the ambassadors, both from Titus Quinctius and from the king.  The Macedonians were conducted out of the city to the Villa Publica, where lodgings and every other accommodation were provided for them, and an audience of the senate was given them in the temple of Bellona.  Not many words passed; for the Macedonians declared, that whatever terms the senate should prescribe, the king was ready to comply with them.  It was decreed, that, conformably to ancient practice, ten ambassadors should be appointed, and that, in council with them, the general, Titus Quinctius, should grant terms of peace to Philip; and a clause was added, that, in the number of these ambassadors, should be Publius Sulpicius and Publius Villius, who in their consulship had held the province of Macedonia.  On the same day the inhabitants of Oossa having presented a petition, praying that the number of their colonists might be enlarged; an order was accordingly passed, that one thousand should be added to the list, with a provision, that no persons should be admitted into that number who, at any time since the consulate of Publius Cornelius and Tiberius Sempronius, had been partisans of the enemy.