Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 39
Evan T. Sage, Ph.D., Ed.

23. When the year was now coming to its end, Quintus Marcius was about to retire from office while absent from Rome and Spurius Postumius, having conducted the investigations with the greatest faithfulness and energy, held the elections. [2] The consuls elected were Appius Claudius Pulcher and Marcus Sempronius Tuditanus. Next day the [p. 285]praetors were chosen, Publius Cornelius Cethegus,¹ Aulus Postumius Albinus, Gaius Afranius Stellio, Gaius Atilius Serranus, Lucius Postumius Tempsanus, Marcus Claudius Marcellinus. [3] At the end of the year, because the consul Spurius Postumius had reported that on his journeys in the prosecution of the investigations on both coasts of Italy he had found colonies abandoned, Sipontum on the upper sea, Buxentum on the lower, three commissioners to enroll colonists for them were elected in accordance with a decree of the senate and under the presidency of the praetor Titus Maenius. [4] The commissioners were Lucius Scribonius Libo, Marcus Tuccius, Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus.²

[5] The war³ with King Perseus and the Macedonians⁴ which was threatening did not arise from the causes which most people assign to it, nor from Perseus himself: the beginnings had been made by Philip; and Philip himself, had he lived longer, would have waged that [6] war. One thing, when terms of peace were dictated to him after his defeat, especially offended him —that the right of punishing those of the Macedonians who had revolted from him during the war had been taken from him by the senate, although, since Quinctius, in their negotiations for peace, had postponed the whole question, he had not despaired of obtaining [7] it.⁵ Then, when King Antiochus had been defeated at Thermopylae, the tasks had been divided,⁶ and at the [8??] same time [p. 287]the consul Acilius had laid siege to Heraclea, Philip⁷ to Lamia; but when Heraclea was taken Philip had felt aggrieved because he had been ordered to retire from the walls of Lamia and the town had been surrendered to the [9] Romans. The consul soothed his wrath, because, when he was himself in haste to move towards Naupactus, whither the Aetolians had gone [10??] from their flight, he had permitted Philip to make war on Athamania and Amynander and to add to his kingdom the cities which the Aetolians had taken from the Thessalians. Without great effort he had both driven Amynander from Athamania and recovered a considerable number of [11] towns. Demetrias also, a powerful city, opportunely situated in every respect, and the tribes of the Magnesians he had brought under his [12] control.⁸ After that he had also gained certain cities in Thrace, amid the disorder caused by the quarrels of their leading citizens [13] —the fault of new and unwonted liberty —by joining himself to the parties which were being worsted in this internal rivalry.⁹