Seldom if ever was speech of popular tribune more stern encies favourably received by the plebeians than that of thisconsul. The men of military age who in similar emerghad made refusal to be enrolled their most effective wagainst the senate, began now to turn their thoughts to eapon arms 而d war. The fugitives from the country districts, those who had been plundered and wounded in the fields, reported a moreterrible state of things than what was visible froze the walls,and filled the whole City with a thirst for vengeance. When thesenate met, all eyes turned to Quinctius as the one man who could uphold the majesty of Rome. The leaders of the Housedeclared his speech to be worthy of the position he held asconsul, worthy of the many consulships he had previously held,worthy of his whole life, rich as it was in honours, many actually enjoyed, many， more deserved.， Other.consuls, they said, had.1 ., either nattered to e.. ,; .11.plebs by betraying.the authority and7 7 7 privileges }ot.tne patricians,, or,妙insisting too harshly upon the rights of their oraer,ynaa xntensznea，me opposition, of the masses. Tztus Quxnctius, m his speech, nag kept in view the authority of the senate, the concord of the two orders, and, above all, the circumstances of the hour. They begged him and his colleague to take over the conduct of public affairs, and appealed to the ones to be of one mind with the consulsin wishing to see war rolled back from the walls of the City, and inducing the at such a crisis, to yield to the authority of the senate. common fatherland was, they declared, calling on the tribunes and imploring their aid now that their fields were ravaged and the City all but attacked. By universal consent a levv was decreed and held. The consuls gave pumxc notice that there was no time for investzw gating claims for exemption, and all the men liable for service were to present themselves the next day in the Campus AIartius. 妙en the war was over协ey would give， tune for inquiry into me cases ox those who has noL given in their， names, and those 哗“could not. prove lustancation wouia tae nerd to be deserters.7 , " '111 ', . 1 r' 71 Al少畏。wer弓iraa毛et畔ewe叩Pearea on the totlowing day,.1 Li acn. opt the cono,万is seieetea their, r。吧centurions,_ and twow senators were placea in command of each cohort. We understand that these arrangements were so promptly carried out that the standards,吨ch had been taken from the treasury andtie er , . , carried down to the Campus Martlus Dy the quaestors in the morning, left the Campus at x o o'clock that sarn e day, and the newly--raised one with only a few cohorts of veterans following as volunteers, halted at the tenth milestone. The next day brought them within sigh t of the enemy, and they entrenched their camp dose to the enemy's camp at Corbio. The Romans were fired by anger and resentment;the enemy, conscious of their guilt after so many revolts, despaired of pardon. There was consequently no delay in bringing rnatterz to an, issue.