Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 36
Evan T. Sage, PhD professor of latin and head of the department of classics in the University of Pittsburgh, Ed.

3. Commissioners were sent to Africa, three each to the Carthaginians and to Numidia, to solicit [p. 163]grain to be shipped to Greece, for which the Roman¹ people would pay. [2] And so absorbed was the state in the preparation and provision for this war that Publius Cornelius the consul issued an edict to the effect that, of [3??] those who were senators and those who had the right to vote in the senate² and those who held the lesser offices, no one should be so far distant from the city of Rome that he could not return the same day, and that five senators should not be away from Rome at one time. In his zealous collection of a fleet Gaius Livius was delayed for a while by a dispute which arose with the colonists on the coast. [4] For when they were drafted for naval service they appealed to the tribunes of the people; by them they were referred to the senate. [5] With such unanimity that all the members to a man agreed, the senate voted that no exemptions from naval service should be granted to these colonists. [6] Ostia, Fregenae, Castrum Novum, Pyrgi, Antium, Terracina, Minturnae and Sinuessa were the colonies which disputed with the praetor over exemptions. Then the consul Manius Acilius, with the authorization of the senate, laid the question before the college of fetials whether the declaration of war should be delivered to King Antiochus himself directly or whether it sufficed that it be proclaimed at some of his military stations; [7] and also whether they ordered the war to be formally announced to the Aetolians independently, and whether the alliance and friendship with them should be formally broken off before the declaration of war.³ [8] The fetials replied that they had already [p. 165]earlier decided, when they were consulted regarding⁴ Philip,⁵ that it made no difference whether the declaration was delivered to him in person or at a military post; [9] the friendship seemed to be already broken off since they had voted that restitution had not been made after ambassadors had so often demanded it nor fair satisfaction given;⁶ the Aetolians had taken the initiative in declaring war upon them when they had seized Demetrias, [11??] a city belonging to the allies, by violence, had proceeded to invest Chalcis by land and sea, and had invited King Antiochus to Europe to make war upon the [12] Roman people.⁷ All arrangements having been satisfactorily made, the consul Manius Acilius issued an edict to the soldiers whom Lucius Quinctius [13??] had enlisted and those whom he had requisitioned from the allies of the Latin confederacy, whom he was to take with him to his province, and to the military tribunes⁸ of the first and the third legions, that they should all assemble at Brundisium on the Ides of May. He himself left the City in uniform on the fifth day before the Nones [14] of May. About the same time the praetors too set out for their provinces.