Liv. 21.17.1Nōminātae iam anteā cōnsulibus prōvinciae erant;The provinces had already been named for the consuls earlier; Liv. 21.17.1tum sortīrī iussī.then they were ordered to draw lots. Liv. 21.17.1Cornēliō Hispānia, Semprōniō Āfrica cum Siciliā ēvēnit.Spain fell to Cornelius, Africa together with Sicily to Sempronius. Liv. 21.17.2Sex in eum annum dēcrētae legiōnēs et socium quantum ipsīs vidērētur et classis quanta parārī posset.Six legions were decreed for that year, and as many allies as the consuls themselves thought fit, and as large a fleet as could be made ready. Liv. 21.17.3Quattuor et vīgintī peditum Rōmānōrum mīlia scrīpta et mīlle octingentī equitēs, sociōrum quadrāgintā mīlia peditum, quattuor mīlia et quadringentī equitēs;Twenty-four thousand Roman infantry were enrolled and eighteen hundred cavalry, forty thousand allied infantry and four thousand four hundred cavalry; Liv. 21.17.3nāvēs ducentae vīgintī quīnquerēmēs, celōcēs vīgintī dēductī.two hundred and twenty quinqueremes and twenty light vessels were launched. Liv. 21.17.4Lātum inde ad populum, vellent iubērent populō Carthāginiēnsī bellum indīcī;Then the question was put to the people whether they wished and ordered that war be declared on the Carthaginian people; Liv. 21.17.4eiusque bellī causā supplicātiō per urbem habita atque adōrātī Diī, ut bene ac fēlīciter ēvenīret quod bellum populus Rōmānus iussisset.and for the sake of that war a supplication was held throughout the city and the gods were entreated, that the war which the Roman people had ordered might turn out well and happily.
Liv. 21.17.4Inter cōnsulēs ita cōpiae dīvīsae: Semprōniō datae legiōnēs duae — ea quaterna mīlia erant peditum et trecēnī equitēs — et sociōrum sēdecim mīlia peditum, equitēs mīlle octingentī, nāvēs longae centum sexāgintā, celōcēs duodecim.The forces were divided between the consuls as follows: to Sempronius were given two legions — these numbered four thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry each — and sixteen thousand allied infantry, eighteen hundred cavalry, a hundred and sixty warships and twelve light vessels. Liv. 21.17.6Cum hīs terrestribus maritimīsque cōpiīs Ti. Semprōnius missus in Siciliam, ita in Āfricam trānsmissūrus, sī ad arcendum Ītaliā Poenum cōnsul alter satis esset.With these land and sea forces Tiberius Sempronius was sent to Sicily, intending to cross to Africa provided that the other consul was enough to keep the Carthaginian out of Italy. Liv. 21.17.7Cornēliō minus cōpiārum datum, quia L. Mānlius praetor et ipse cum haud invalidō praesidiō in Galliam mittēbātur;Cornelius was given fewer forces, because Lucius Manlius the praetor was also being sent to Gaul with a garrison of considerable strength; Liv. 21.17.8nāvium maximē Cornēliō numerus dēminūtus: sexāgintā quīnquerēmēs datae — neque enim marī ventūrum aut eā parte bellī dīmicātūrum hostem crēdēbant — et duae Rōmānae legiōnēs cum suō iūstō equitātū et quattuordecim mīlibus sociōrum peditum, equitibus mīlle sescentīs.it was above all in the number of ships that Cornelius' share was reduced: sixty quinqueremes were given to him — for they did not believe that the enemy would come by sea or fight in that sphere of the war — and two Roman legions with their regular cavalry, and fourteen thousand allied infantry and sixteen hundred cavalry.
Liv. 21.17.9Duās legiōnēs Rōmānās et decem mīlia sociōrum peditum, mīlle equitēs sociōs, sescentōs Rōmānōs Galliā prōvinciā eōdem versā in Pūnicum bellum habuit.The province of Gaul, likewise turned towards the Punic war, held two Roman legions and ten thousand allied infantry, a thousand allied cavalry and six hundred Roman.