numerum quoque eorum dimidia ex parte minuit ultro Sp. Lucretio collega adsumpto, ad quem, quia maior natu erat, priorem fasces transferri iussit
He also halved their number and of his own accord took Sp. Lucretius as his colleague, to whom he had the fasces transferred, giving him priority because he was older.
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