none of them
should become a Roman citizen or a Latin confederate; and that none of
those who had been at Capua while the gates were shut should remain in
the city or territory of Capua after a certain day. That a place
should be assigned to them to inhabit beyond the Tiber, but not
contiguous to it. That those who had neither been in Capua nor in any
Campanian city which had revolted from the Romans during the war,
should inhabit a place on this side the river Liris towards Rome; and
that those who had come over to the Romans before Hannibal arrived at
Capua, should be removed to a place on this side the Vulturnus, with a
proviso, that none of them should have either land or house within
fifteen miles of the sea. That such of them as were removed to a place
beyond the Tiber, should neither themselves nor their posterity
acquire or possess any property any where, except in the Veientian,
Sutrian, or Nepetian territories; and, except on condition, that no
one should possess a greater extent of land than fifty acres. That the
goods of all the senators, and such as had been magistrates at Capua,
Calatia, and Atella, should be sold at Capua; but that the free
persons who were decreed to be exposed to sale, should be sent to Rome
and sold there. As to the images and brazen statues, which were said
to have been taken from the enemy, whether sacred or profane, they
referred them to the college of pontiffs. They sent the Campanians
away, considerably more grieved than they were when they came, in
consequence of these decrees; and now they no longer complained of the
severity of Quintus Fulvius towards them, but of the malignity of the
gods and their own accursed fortune.

35. After the Sicilians and Campanians were dismissed, a levy was
made; and after the troops had been enlisted for the army, they then
began to consider about making up the number of rowers; but as there
was neither a sufficient supply of men for that purpose, nor any money
at that time in the treasury by which they might be purchased or paid,
the consuls issued an edict, that private persons should furnish
rowers in proportion to their income and rank, as had been done
before, with pay and provisions for thirty days. So great was the
murmuring and indignation of the people, on account of this edict,
that a leader, rather than matter, was wanting for an insurrection. It
was said, that "the consuls, after having ruined the Sicilians and
Campanians, had underta