M. Valerius and Sp. Vergilius were the new consuls. There was quiet at home and abroad. Owing to excessive rain there was a scarcity of provisions.A law was carried making the Aventine a part of the State domain. The tribunes of the plebs were reelected. These men in the following year, when, T. Romilius and C. Veturius were the consuls, were continually making the Law the staple of all their harangues, and said that they should be ashamed of their number being increased to no purpose, if that matter made as little progress during their two years of office as it had made during the five preceding years. Whilst the agitation was at its height, a hurried message came from Tusculum to the effect that the Xqui were in the Tusculan territory. The good services which that nation had so lately rendered made the ueonle ashamed to delav sendinLy assistance. xsotn consuls were sent aLrainst the enemy. ana rouna nim in iris usual position on algiaus. An action was iougnt there; above fiooo of the enemy were killed, the rest were put to flight; immense booty was taken. This, owing to the low state of the public treasury, the consuls sold. Their action, however, created ill-feel吨 in the and afforded the tribunes material on which to base an accusation against them. When, therefore, they went out of office, in which they were succeeded by Spurius Tarpeius and A. Aternius. thev were both impeached Romilius 人，JL by C. Calvius Cicero。plebeian tribune. and veturius 叮了J.J Alienus. plebeian. xdile. To the intense indignation IJ‘马-钾 senatorial party, both were condemned and fined; Romilius had to pay x0,000，.’.ases,11’一an代Ve冬urius 15 ,0oo. T: he fate of their_ predecessors， all.,，nor. snaKe the resolution， or the new consuls; they said tnarl wniie rt was quite possible, , ., , ., that they mi蜘t also be conaemnea, it was not possible for the plebs and is es to carry the Law. Through stale, the tribunes now threw it the patricians in,7,，“。less aggressive spirit.., 1. , .。They urged that. an., 7 . '71 .% end should be put to their disputes, and it they objected to the measures adopted by the plebeians, they should consent to the ap- ent of a body of legislators, chosen in equal numbers from ans and patricians, to enact what would be useful to both orders and secure equal liberty for each. The patricians thought the proposal worth consideration;they said, however, that’no one silould legislate unless ne were a patrician, since they were agreed as to the laws and only differed as to who should enactthem. Commissioners were sent to Athens with instructions to make a copy of the famous laws of Solon, and to investigate the institutions, customs, and laws of other Greek States. Their names were Spurius Postumius Albus, A. Manlius, I'. Sulpicius Camerinus.