sentences:  Perhaps the Punic war meant that too many such patrons were away from Rome, and unable to handle legal matters).His brother Publius Aelius Paetus had been consul three years earlier in 201, and was elected censor 199.Publius's success may have helped Sextus to the consulship in 198, but he was overshadowed by his younger and eventually more famous patrician colleague, Titus Quinctius T.f.