 The idea of having only one man in charge in Hispania might have been connected with the fact that Hannibal had been defeated the year before and with the end of the Second Punic War there was a need to demobilise the Roman armies (particularly in Italy) and discharge the veterans.In 199 BC, the praetor "Gaius Sergius" was given the task of organising the distribution of land to the soldiers who had served for many years in Sicily, and Sardinia and Hispania.We are not told why this plan to have only one man in charge did not materialise and why Acidinus stayed behind.