耳I. Pestilence and. .Famine.刁乒s year wr乒ch, ow协g to thi, moderation of the tribunes, has peen free from disturnances was followed by one in which L. Icilius was tribune, the consuls being(??. Fabius Ambustus and C. Furius Pacilus...At the very begxnhing of少year he to1 91终up the work of agitation,. w r 1 ,“‘though1 it were the allotted task of his name and laxmly, and announced proposals for dealing with the land question. Owing to the created more alarm than mortality, the thoughts of men were diverted from the political struggles of the Forum to their homes_ and t卜e necessity of nursing the sick: The pestilence was regarded as less baneful than the agrarian agitation would_have been. The commu呼ty escaped with very few deaths considering the very large number of cases. As usuallv haDnens，the pestilence brought a famine the follow- .1。几占.产，乍，、，。.、“，。。.，r" 11 ing year，owing to the九eras wing uncuitivatea. lne new ，‘，‘，尸，。。‘.产甘，/"1%、甲月‘竹:‘， consuls were 1v1..1T1. 7，raprius Atratinus7 1 A.and t,.w .w:1V autius z.utilus.w . '7 Y i The famine would have been more fatal than the pestilence had not the scarcity been relieved by the despatch of commissionerst rwl w rtirdti 梦all。 the c1专xes lying. on生he Etrus牙吧”eaanCt，thesea and thew一上’wer.产’n兮 :}amnxtes、wn0 occuuxe以七aDua anct七urnae, retuseaI n insoient 扩J占产 terms to have any communication with the commissioners;on the other hand, assistance was generously given by the Sicilian Tyrant.s1 The largest supplies were brought down the Tiber, through the ungrudging exertions of theEtruscans. In consequence of the prevalence of sickness in the republic, the consuls-0 1 w Ii r found hardly any men available; as only one senator could De obtained for each commission, they were compelled to attach. two knights to it. Apart from the pestilence and the famine, there was no trouble either at home or abroad during these two but as soon as these causes of anxiety had disappeared,in the commonwealth----