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DEcius Iunius Brutus had good fortune in the farther province of Spaine, fighting with the Galli∣cians. But M. Aemylius Lepidus pro-consull sped far otherwise in his wars against the Vaccci, and suffered the like overthrow to that other received from the Numantines. When Mancinus the autheur and maker of the accord
〈…〉〈…〉 when he was unwilling to accept thereof, by reason of a law forbidding expressely,* 1.1 that any 〈…〉〈…〉 hee created Cos. the second time, hee had a dispensation, and was freed from the law in that 〈…〉〈…〉 as from the * 1.2 other in his former Consullship. There was an insurrection of bondslaves arose 〈…〉〈…〉 when it could not be suppressed by the Pretours and lord governours, C. Fulvius had the charge of that province and service. This war began by occasion of one Etinus a bondslave and a Syri∣an borne, who having assembled together a power of rusticall peasants and countrie slaves, broken pri∣sons sons and horses of correction, came to have a full and complete armie. Moreover, Cleon also another no∣table slave, raised to the number of 70000 villaines like himselfe: and they both ioining their forces to∣gether, waged war many times against the people of Rome and their armie in those parts.
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