The Veientine and the Xquo-Volscian W。二一The next consuls were Q. Fabius and C. Julius. During this year the c2vic dissensions were as lively as ever, and the war assumed a more serious form. The , Eaui took up arms、and the Veientiaes 人占J made depredations on Roman territory. Axn idst the growing anxiety about these wars Caeso Fabius and Sp. Furius were made consuls. The Equi were attacking, Ortona, a Latin city;the Veientines, laden with plunder, were slow threatening to attach Rome itself. This alarming condition of affairs ought to have restrained, whereas it actual珍increased the hostility of the plebs, and they resumed the old method of refusing military service. This was not spontaneous on their part;Sp. Licinius, one of their tribunes, thinking that it was a ,good time for forcing the Agrarian Law upon the senate through sheer necessity, had taken upon him the obstruction of the levy. All the odium, however, aroused by this misuse of the tribunitian power recoiled upon the author, his own colleagues were as much opposed to him as the consuls;through their assistance An army was raised for two wars at the same time, one azainst 力，，，。了·，，，，.，，二_，，一。V me. Veientines. under ramus,. the other against the &qui under r urius._，In t丹”latter campaign. nothing happened worth record. u19. .r aDius, however, ,pact consiaerab坟more trouble with his own men than with the enemy. He, the consul, single-handed, sustained the commonwealth, whale has army throuLrh their hatred of the consul were dome their best to betray it. Eor, ，-·，，，.，。，·，r t·，.，，r，、。，尹 vesicies au the other instances of his sxin as a coiTm7,anae几Vnicrl he had so abundantly furnished in his preparation for the war and his conduct of it, he had so disposed his troops that he routed the enemy by sending only his cavalry 1s against them.. The infantry they deaf to the z refused to take up the pursuit; not only wereppeals of their hated general, but even the pinfam which they were brining upon thems ublIQ disgrace andi乎几m y万h15lltheyw叮宁匕nn g} . 7 } 1 1 7 9gup。 " r . v elves at the moment, and the danger which would come 1f the enemy were to rally were powerless to make them. quicken their Dace。 or, failing that, even to keep their fomlation. 勺ainst orders they retired, and with gloomy looks--y ou would suppose that they had been defeated---they returned to camp, cursing now their commander, now the work which the cavalry had done. Against this example of demoralisation the general was unable to devise any remedy;to such an extent may men of commanding ability be more deficient in the art of managing their own people than远that of conquering the enemy. The consul returned to Rome, but he had not enhanced his military reputation so much as he had aggravated and embittered the hatred of his soldiers towards him. The senate, however, succeeded in keeping the consulship in