Tsar with the Zgzci and Sabines. The new consu L. Minucius and C. Nautius, took over the two subjects wh ，J、.占 remained from the previous year. As before, they obstructed the Law, the tribunes obstructed the trial of Volscius;but the new quaestors possessed greater } energy州，greater weight.7 T. Quinctius Capitolinus who had been tnrice consul, was quaestor withM.Valerius _the son of Valerius and grandson of Volesus. As Caeso could not be restored to the house of the Quinctii, nor could the greatest of her soldiers be restored to the State, Quinctius was bound in justice and by loyalty to his family to prosecute the false witness who had deprived an innocent man of the power to plead in his own defence. As Verginius, most of all the tribunes, was agitating fox the 玩w, an interval of two months was granted the consuls for an examination of it, in order that when they 'had made the people understand what insidious dishonesty it contained. thev I J allow them to vote upon it. During this interval matters were quiet in the， City.The Equi, however,。、。。。。allow much respite. In violation 墓the treaty madedatory incursions黔Rome the year before, they madethe territory of Labici and then into that of Tusculum. They had placed Gracchus Cloelius in command, their foremost man at that time. .rafter load吨 themselves with plunder they fixed their camp on Mount Algidus. Q. Fabius, P. Volumnius, and A. Postumius were sent from Rome to demand satisfaction, under the terms of the treaty. The general's quarters were located under an enormous o残 he was sitting, as he was otherwise engaged.. As they withdrew,one of the envoys exclaimed, May this consecrated oak-, 15 mayeach offended deity hear that you have broken the treatyMay they look upon our complaint now, and may they presentlyaid our arms when we seek to redress the outraged rights ofgods as well as men! On the return. of the envoys, the senate ordered one of the consuls to march against Gracchus on Algidus; the other wasinstructed to ravage the territory of the ,Equi.As usual, the tribunes attempted to obstruct the levy andprobably would in the end have succeeded, had there not beenfresh cause for alarm.