ἱστορίαι Historiai
Liv. 2.52 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
17n peachments by the Tribunes off`' the Plebs.一 Together with peace, food came more freely into the City. Corn was brought from Campania, and as the fear of future scarcity had dIsaMearea. each xnalviauat rorouznt out what ne had noaraed. The result of ease and plenty was fresh restlessness, and as the old evils no longer existed abroad, men began to look for them at home. The tribunes began to poison the minds of the plebeians with the Agrarian Law and inflamed them against thesenators who resisted it, not only against the whole body, but, individual members.Q. Considius and T. Genucius, who were advocating the Law, appointed a day for the trial of T. Menenius. Popular feeling was roused against him by the loss of the。fort at the Cremera, since, as consul, he had his standing camp not far from it. This crushed hint, though the senators exerted themselves for him no less than they had done for Coriolanus, and the popularity of his father Agrippa had not died away. The tribunes contented themselves with a fine, though.they had arraxizned him on a capital charze:the amount was fixed at 2000“ases." 2s This proved to be a death-sentence. for they say that he- was unable to endure the disgrace and grief, and was carried off by a fatal malady. Sp. Servilius was the next to be impeached. :his prosecution, conducted by the tribunes L. Caedicius and T. Statius, took place immediately after his year had expired, at the commence. anent of the consulship of C. Nautius and I''. Valerius. When the day of trial came, he did not, like Menenius, meet the attacks of the tribunes衍appeals for mercy, whether his own or those of the senators, he relied absolutely on his innocence and personal influence. The charge against him was his conduct in the battle with the Tuscans on the Janiculum;but the same courage which he then displayed, when the State, was in danger, he, now displayed哗en In苍。梦只少e, was in a* .*粤乎ger.., meeting一“乎arge吵 counter-charge, ne Dolcuy lard upon the tribunes and the whole ,of the plebs the guilt of the condemnation and death of T. Menenius;the son, he reminded them, of the man through whose efforts the plebeians had been restored to their position. in the State, and were enjoying those very magistracies and laws which now allowed them to be cruel and vindictive. By his boldness he dispelled the danger, and his colleague Verginius, who came forward as a witness、assisted him by creditinz him witn some or nis own services to the Mare·一i-ne thing that

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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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