 Albinus being killed in an ambush in Gaul on his way home, Marcus Claudius Marcellus was elected consul in his stead, to the protests of patricians who claimed that two plebeians could not serve as consuls.Marcellus thereupon resigned, and Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus was elected as consul to serve out the year.In that year, Fabius and the Senate decided to induct volunteer slaves into the Roman armies and to have them serve in separate legions to win their freedom.