Negotiations were then entered upon for a recon The Early ears of the Republic z。5 ciliation. .An, agreement was arrived at, the terms beinLy that ，‘J the plebs should have its own magistrates, whose persons were to be fable. and who should have the right of protection against the consuls. And further, no should be allowed. to hold that office. Two“tribunes of the plebs ，’were elected C. Licinius and L. A.lbinus. These chose three colleagues二is generally agr “ee d that Sicinius.the instigator of the secession, was amongst th em., but who the other two were is not settled. Some say that only two tribunes were created on the Sacred Hill, and that it was there that the lei sacrata 3.5 was passed. .League with the La tins.一一W('7w 'r0r;f} fkp xr with the Volscians一刃uring the secession of the plebs Sp rn q,qi ,q and Fostumius Cominius entered on their consulship In their year of office a treaty was concluded with the Latin towns and one of the consuls remained in Rome for the purpose. The other was sent to the Volscian war. He routed a force of Volscians from Antium, and pursued them to Longula, which he gained possession of. Then he advanced to Polusca, also belonging to the Volscians, which he captured、after which he attacked Corioli in Great force. 占_r_，二，.，确，~.-..- Amongst the most distingui壑d of the young soldiers’“t粤e camp at that time was Unaeus Warcius, a young man prompt in counsel and action, who afterwards received the epithet of Coriolanus. During the progress of the siege, while the Roman army was devoting its whole attention to the townspeople whom it had shut up within their walls and not in the least apprehending any danger from hostile movements without, it was suddenly attacked by Volscian le gions who had marched from Antium. At the sam e moment a sortie was made from the town. Marcius happened to be on guard, and with a picked body of men not only repelled the sortie but made a bold dash through the open gate, and atter cutting down many in the part oi me city nearest to Him, seLzea some tare and. hurled it on the buildings which abutted on the walls. The shouts of the townsmen mzngiea warn me snriecs of the terrified women and children, encouraged the Romans and dismayed the Volscians, who thought that the city which they had come to assist was already captured. So the troops from Antium were routed and Corxoli taken.“The renown which Marcius won so completely eclip sed that of the consul. that, had not the treaty with the L ,atins owing to hisO colleague's absence had been concluded by SP. Cassius alone----been inscribed on a brazen column and so permanently ,6o.3 E recorded, all memo ry of Postumius Cominius having carried on a war with the Vol scians would have perished. In the same year Agrippa Menenius died, a man who all through his life was equ ally beloved by the patricians and the plebeians, and made him self still more endeared to the plebeians after their secession. Yet he, the negotiator and arbitrator of the reconciliation, who acted as the ambassador of the patricians to the plebs, and brought them back to the City, did not possess money enough to defray the cost of his funeral. He was interred by the plebeians, each man contributing a sextons 1s towards the, expense.