Lucretius returned with an immense amount of booty, anal with a still more brilliant reputation.This prestige he enhanced an his arrival饰laying out all the bootyinthe campus Martius for three days, that each person might recognise and take away his own nronertv. The rest, for which no owners appeared, was 占J口， sold. By universal ' consent a triu was due to the consul, but the matter was delayed through the action of the tribune, who was pressing his measure. The consul regarded this as the more important question. For some days the subject was cussed both in the senate and the popular assembly. At the tribune外elded to the supreme authority of the consul dis-lastandived dropped his measure. Then the consul and his armyreceive the honour they deserved;at the head of bis victorious legions he celebrated his trium呼，over， the户要ans洲仰少 The other consul was allowea to enter the Lily without his troops and enjoy an ovation.8 The following year the new consuls, F. Volumnius and Ser. Sulpicius, were confronted by the proposed law of Terentilius, which was now brought forward by the whole college of tribunes During the year, the sky seemed， to be on fire,. , ,，there was a great., , earthquake;an ox was believed to nave spoken-the year before thise rumour found no credence. Amongst others portents itrained flesh, and an enormous number of birds are said to have 龄ed it while they were flying about; what fell to the groundabout for several days without giving out any bad smell. 器Sibylline Books were consulted by the " duumviri," 4 andediction was found of dangers which would result from a of aliens, attempts on the highest points of the and consequent bloodshed. Amongst other notices, there a solemn warning to，abstain from all: seditious agitations. TIle 不rxounes allegedT ,于hat t丹is wa畏.a尸ne to?Dstruct t粤e passing of zne.L,aw, and a desperate connect seemed imminent. As though to show how events revolve in the same cycle year by year, the Hemici reported that the Volscians and Equi, in spite of their exhaustion, were equipping fresh armies。Antium was the centre of the movement;the colonists of Antium were holding public meetings in Ecetra, the capital, and the main strength of the war. On this information being laid before the senate, orders were given for a levy. The consuls were instructed to divide the operations between them;the Volscians were to be the province of the one, the zEqui of the other. The tribunes, even in face of the consuls, filled the Forum with their shouts, declaring that the story of a Volscian war was a prearranged comedy, the Hernici had been, prepared' beforehand for the part they were to play;the liberties of the Roman were not being repressed by straightforward opposition, but were being cunningly fooled away. It was impossible to persuade them that the Volscians and Aaui. after beinz almost exterminated. could 盖声、Jl themsel :es commence hostilities; a new enemy, therefore, was b emg so ught for; a colony which had been a loyal neighbour was being covered with infamy. It was against the unoffending Deople of Antium that war was aeclarea;it was against the Roman plebs that war was reany being w铭eca. Alter loading them with arms they would drive them in not haste out of the city, anal wreak their vengeance. on the. tribunes by sentencing their fellow-c1娜en气to夕anishm借马几于Xt只is少can于---the了乎zght be quite certain-the L`77 1吧WOUIQ， rye aexeatea;.unless, while`11 1塑 question was stxu unaeciaea, and., w_they were still at home,， still1 ` 1 } w unenrolled, they toox steps to prevent their aexng ousted from their occupation of the City, and forced under the yoke of servitude. If they ·showed courage, help would not be wanting, the tribunes were unanimous. There was no cause for alarm. no d from abroad. The gods had taken care, the previous year, that their liberties should be safely protected