Note 157 — BOOK XXVIII
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
The decree referred to is given in Livy, 43, 17. “No one shall supply any war material to the Roman magistrates other than that which the Senate has decreed.” This had been extracted from the Senate by vehement complaints reaching Rome of the cruel extortions of the Roman officers in the previous two years.