2. L.Duronius, was praetor in B. C. 181,
and obtained Apulia for his province, to which the Istri were added, for ambassadors from
Tarentum and Brundusium had complained of the piracy of the Istri. He was at the same time
commissioned to make inquiries concerning the Bacchanalia, of which some remaining symptoms
had been observed the year before. This commission was in all probability given him for no
other reason but because those symptoms had been observed in the districts which had been
assigned to him as his province. Subsequently he sailed with ten vessels to Illyricum, and the
year after, when he returned to Rome, he reported that the Illyrian king Genthius was the
cause of the piracy which was carried on in the Adriatic. (Liv.
40.18, 19, 42.)