as mucn so with the way in which r1orxensius had yielded to their just remonstrances. XMIL War with the Zqui.--The consuls for the next year were Numerius Fabius Vibulanus and T. Quinctius Capitolinus, the son of Capitolinus. The王 qui had claimed the doubtful victory of the Volscians as their own。but fortune rin longrer favoured them. The campaign against them fell to Fabius, but nothing worth mention took place.。 Theiritself when it was routed and盘pirited5 army hto a disgraceful魏毅t shownwithout the consul gain吨much glory from it. A triumph was in consequence refused him, but as he had removed the disgracSempronius' defeat he was allowed to enjoy an ovation.21嗽 contrary to expectation，the war had been brought to a close 一‘~.。‘二产-._.。.w。。 with。 less fighting华终呼俘been一ar叫，s o. in the Uxtyw . H协e calm was brake. by unlooked-tor and serious disturbances between the plebs and the patricians。It began with the doubling of the number of quaestors.. It was proposed to create in addition to the two City quaestors two others toas aSSxst the consuls in the various duties arising from a state of war when this proposal was laid by the consuls before the senate and had received the support of that body, the tribunes of the plebs insisted that half the number should be taken from. the plebeians ;uPtoup t that time only patricians had been chosen. This dema rid was at first opposed most resolutely by the consuls and the senate; afterwards they尹elded so far as to allow the same freedom of choice in the election of quaestors as the iaeor)le alreadv eni oved in that of consular tribunes. As then zaxnecl nothnz by this. they dropped the proposal to augment the number altogether. The tribunes tOOK it UU, aria many revolutionary 1proDosals. inciuamg the .agrarian Law, were set on loot in quick succession. 工n consequence of these commotions the senate wanted consuls to be elected rather than tribunes, but owing to the veto of the tribunes a formal resolution could not be carved, and on the expiry of the consuls' year of office an interregnum followed, and even this did not happen without a tremendous struggle, for the tribunes vetoed any meeting of the patricians. The greater part of the following year was wasted in contests between the new tribunes of the plebs and some of the interreges. .fit one time the tribunes would intervene to prevent the vatricians from meetinz together to aDDoint an interrex, at another they would interrupt the interrex and prevent him from obtaining a decree for the election of consuls. At last L. Papirius Mugilanus, who had been made interrex, sternly rebuked the senate and the tribunes, and reminded them that upon the truce with. veil and the dilatoriness of the Xqui, and upon these alone, depended the safety of the commonwealth, which was deserted and forgotten by men, but protected by the providential care of the gods.Should any alarm of war sound from that quarter, was it their wish that the State should be taken by surprise while without any patrician magistrate;that there should be no army, no general to enrol one? Were they 2oinz to rebel a foreizn war by a civil one?If both these should come together, the destruction of Rome could hardly be averted even with the help of the gods. Let them rather try to establish concord by making concessions on both sides----the patricians by allowing military tribunes to be elected instead of consuls;