War with the VoIscians and .rEqui.-During the disturbances in Rome, the war with the Volscians and YEqui broke out afresh. They had laid waste the fields, in order that if there were a secession of the plebs they might find refuge with them. had been restored they moved their sent against the away. Appius Claudius was,Equi were left for Quinctius tosame savage temper in the field deal with. that he ha} it was more unrestrained because he was not now fettered by the tribunes. He hated the commons with a more intense hatred than his father had felt, for they had aot the better of him and had carried their Law though he had been elected consul as being the one man who could thwart the tribunitian power--a Law, too, which former consuls, fromwhom the senate expected less than from him, had obstructedwith less trouble. Anger and indignation at all this goadedhis imperious nature into harassing his army by ruthless disci-pline. No violent measures, however, could subdue them., suchwas the spirit of opposition with which they were filled. Theydid everything in a perfunctory, leisurely, careless, defiant way;no feeling of shame or fear restrained them. If he wished thecolumn to move more quickly they deliberately marched more slowly, if he came up to urge them on in their relaxed the energy they had been previously ex own accord;in his presence they cast their eye ground, when he passed by they silently cursed him, so that the courage which had not quailed before the hatred of the plebs was sometimes shaken. .After vainly employing harsh measures of every kind, he abstained from any further intercourse with his soldiers, said that the army had been corrupted by the centurions, and sometimes called them, in jeering tones, tribunes of the plebs, and voleros.