Senators, and especially our acting consul Verginius,

Decius Curtius (Braden)'s representative must have gotten confused during the heated debates and voted incorrectly. I'm sure his master will punish him accordingly.

As one of your 'persecutors' let me be the first to congratulate you on the failure of Motion 6.9 (This house censors the First Consul), which as a senator I felt had to be proposed, but as a friend am glad to see failed miserably.
I greatly regret the failure of Motion 6.7 (We will ally ourselves with the Illyrians), especially seeing as Motion 6.6 (A small army along with a spy is to be sent to a 'backroom' Greek city) did pass. I now greatly regret voting for Motion 6.6, especially as it seems my vote was decisive, and I would never have done it had I suspected Motion 6.7 would fail. But it is too late now and the will of the senate must be done.

I think your interpretation might be slightly too literal, altough I can understand your caution after your harsh treatement at the hands of the senate and myself in particular.
I do not think the senate would take kindly to you interpreting ´Roman troops´ as excluding our auxilia forces. You would make a laughing stock of yourself if you actually did send out an army composed entirely of auxiliaries without a core of Prinicipes, Hastatii, Velites and Triarii. Your deft twisting of words does not disguise the fact that no True Roman would consider an army to lack this core to be an army, merely a collection of auxilia troops. As Motion 6.8 says nothing about Motion 6.6 I expect a small army to be a Roman Legion at the very least. I strongly recommend to send a Consular Army for such a hazardous attack.
I find your notion of ´two cohorts of Italian spearmen assaulting a walled Greek city´ entertaining, but I´m assuming you will use your military knowledge and send out nothing smaller than a legion at the very least.

I am glad that Motion 6.15 passed as we can surely use the extra day of debate it seems.

Let me finish by expressing the fullest confidence that acting consul Verginius can manouver between these ill-worded directives and find a path that will lead to the betterment of our great Republic.


Hail Roma !