sentences:  The Roman navy had already been mobilized by 218 BC, having launched 220 quinqueremes, perhaps in preparation for the Second Illyrian War (220/219 BC).Consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus had received two legions, 8,000 infantry and 600 cavalry, plus 16,000 allied infantry and 1,800 allied cavalry and instructions to sail for Sicily in 160 great warships and 12 light galleys and from there to Africa (he never made it) provided the other consul, Publius Cornelius Scipio, could keep Hannibal out of Italy.Scipio received two legions of the same number of infantry and cavalry plus 14,000 allied infantry and 1,600 allied cavalry with 65 banked ships for transport.