The new consuls were T. C-eganius and P. Minucius. In this year, whilst all abroad was undisturbed by war and the civic dissensions at home were healed, the commonwealth was attacked by another much more serious evil:first dearness of food，owin to the fields remaining uncultivated during the 护 V V secession, and following on this a famine such as visits a besieged city.wtw ti1 i 1h .ie_le } i0.theperi } ti y It would have led to the perishing of the slaves in any case，and probably ine weberans would nav e died, had J人口J‘ not the consuls provided for the emergency by sending men in various directions to buy corn. They penetrate尽no夸only_ along the coast_ to the right of Ustxa into Etruria, but also along the. sea to the left past the V olscian country as tar as Uumae. Their search extended even as far as Sicily;to such an extent did the 吵tilitvof.t呼neighbours compel them to seek distant help.yT"rrT7 7 !'1 . y 7 ' ti hostilitvof theirhostilit Wnencorn naa peen pougnti ar Lumae, tn,esn1PSwere by the tyrant Aristodemus, in lieu oftlleproperty of Tarauin. .，’，，·A，，，YY，、砰，。占.， townomnewas near. nmongsz ine v oto wnoxn ne1sclans and m the P"omptine district it was even impossible to purchase corn, corn merchants were in danger of beingattached by the popula-tion. Some corn came from Etruria up the Tiber; this served for the support of the plebeians. They would have玩en harassed by a war, doubly unwelcome when provisions were so scarce, if the Volscians, who were already on the march., had not been attacked by a frightful pestilence. This disaster cawed the enemy so effectually that even when it had abated its violence theyrema运edto some extent in a state of terror;the Rozrians increased the number of colonists at Velitrae and sent a new colony to Norba, up in the mountains, to serve as a strong-hold in the Pornptine district. he Story of Corzolcznus.一During the consulship of M. TVfinucius and A .Sempronius, a large quantity of corn was icily，alldthe’ qicily, and the .uestion was discussed in the brought from Ssenate at what price it should be given to the plebs. Many were of opinion，that the moment.had，come:for，putting. Is -1 V pressure on the plebeians, and recovering， tine rlgnts which had been wrested from me senate through the secession and the violence which accompanied it. Foremost among these Marcius Coriolanu “If, " he argued,“they want the them restore to the senate its old rowers. Whv. then. do I, after being sent under the yoke, ransomed as it were from see plebeian magistrates, why do I see a Sicinius' in Am I to endure these indignities a moment longer than Ican help?Am I, who c叫Id n衅putup with a Tarquin as king. to put up with a Sicinius?Let him secede now!let him call out his plebeians, the way axes open to the sacred .W11 and to other hills. Let them carry off the corn from our fields as they did two years咭。; let them enjoy the scarcity which in their madness they have produced! Y will venture to say that after they have been tamed by these sufferings, they will rather work as labourers themselves in the fields than prevent their being cultivated by an armed secession.”工t is not so easy to say whether they ou ght to have done this as it is to express one's belief that it could have been done, and the senators miffht have 、.J made it a condition of lowering the price of the corn that they should abrogate the tribunitian power and all the legal restrictions imposed upon them against their will.