The Curia

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Qvintvs Aemilivs rose to speak.

"Thank you Avlvs Aemilivs, Thank you my fellow senators. I shall not shame thy trust."

Content, he sat down again.

[The Celtic Viking]

"Thanks to you all, but does it not make more sense - since we only have one consular legion - to let the command of Legio I Apvlia go to Consul Manivs Clavdivs? He knows the soldiers himself as he has fought with them for a long time, and if he would challenge Cnaevs Cornelivs, I would certainly put my vote on him.

Do not mistake my words as distrust in the command of Cnaevs Cornelivs, but rather as a concern for how we would be treating Manivs Clavdivs. He has spent so much time as a second in command under me there, and to have someone else and take it over when I leave would be a direct insult to him, if he does indeed wish to command it now. Has he not earned his turn do that now, if it's what he wants?"

[/Bean\]

What command would you allow yourself then, Consul? Or would you keep from commanding a legion entirely for your term? I do not share your concern for the leadership of Cnaevs Cornelivs in Legio I Apulia. He has proved himself a capable commander in the past under Consul Dentatvs. I do not believe we should disown his ability when we have yet to experience it.