 Laelianus was, in the words of Fronto, "a serious man and an old-fashioned disciplinarian".Bassus had been Governor of Lower Moesia, and was also made "comes".Lucius selected his favorite freedmen, including Geminus, Agaclytus, Coedes, Eclectus, and Nicomedes, who gave up his duties as "praefectus vehiculorum" to run the commissariat of the expeditionary force.