 Complete the following phrase:  His first recorded mention was his election as consul in 235 BC, alongside Gaius Atilius Bulbus, a plebeian who had already been consul in 245 BC. Eutropius and Cassiodoruswho relied on Livydescribed Titus as the consul prior, which means the Centuriate Assembly elected him before Atilius.Titus was sent to Sardinia, which had just come under Roman control in the aftermath of the First Punic War 264 BC  241 BC. The war indemnity demanded by Rome was so high that Carthage could not pay its mercenaries, 