Nam Sertorianum bellum a senatu privato datum est quia consules recusabant, cum L. Philippus pro consulibus eum se mittere dixit, non pro consule.
except that the war against Sertorius was assigned to him as a private citizen by the senate because the consuls declined, whereupon Lucius Philippus said he was sending him, not as proconsul, but in place of the consuls.
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