When this exclamation of Postumius was reported to the soldiers it aroused much more indignation in the camp.“What!” they said,“is the embezzler of the spoils, the robber, actually threatening his soldiers with punishment?”Open as the expressions of resentment were, the quaestor P. Sestius still thought that the excitement could be repressed by the same exhibition of violence by which it had been aroused. .A lictor was sent to a soldier who was shoutinz. this led to uproar and disorder. The quaestor was struck by a stone and vot out of the crowd;the man who had hurt him exclaimed that the quaestor had got what the commander had, threatened the soldiers. Postumius was sent for to deal with the outbreak;he aggravated the general irritation by the ruthless way in which he made his investizations and the cruelty of the uunishments ne innictea. At last. when his raze exceeaea au oounas、ana a crowd had gathered at the cries of those whore he had ordered to be put to，death“under the hurdle," so he rushed down from his tribunal. in a frenzy to those who. were interruf11 It g the execution;the .victors ana centurions tried in all dire ons to disperse thecrowd，an d dry re them to such a pitch of exasperation that the tribune was . }y,or}trlnnirnpA hpneath a shower of stones froze his own army. When this dreadful deed vc ,s reported at Rome, the consular tribunes urged the senate to inquiry into the circumstances of the death. of their ，but the tribunes-of the nlebs interposed their veto. That matter was closely connected with another su of ect ox axspute一1-ne senate were apprehensive lest the plebeians, etner tnrougn areaa of an investigation or froze土eeiings opt resentment, snouza ezect the consuzar triounes froze their own ooay, ana they axa tner utmost accoraxngiy to secure the election. of consuls·As the tribunes of the plebs would not allow the senate to pass a decree, and also vetoed