Hostilities threatened with Veii.--luring this year the armistice with Veil expired, and ambassadors and fetials 34 were sent to demand satisfaction.. When th eyre reached the frontier they were met by a deputation from Vei i. wh o begged them not to ao there before they themselves had an audience of the r--oman senate. 'inev oDtainea xrom the senate me with-arawai ox the aemana xor satisfaction, owma to the internal trouaies xrom wn.ca v en was surxering., z:)o xar were the长omans from seeking their opportunity in the misfortunes of others! A disaster was incurred on Volscian ground in the loss of the garrison at Verrugo. So much depended here upon a few hours that the b egging measures arrived in time to surprise the enemy, who, fresh from the massacre of the garrison were scattered in quest of plunder. The responsibility for the delay rested more with the senate than with the consular tribunes; offering a most， determined resistance, and they did not reflect that there ar气limits to human strength which no amount ofw mw . . courage can transcend.-.V ., 41.土he gallant soldiers were not unavenged ether in their lives or their deaths. The following year the consular tribunes were P. Cornelius Cossus, Cnaeus Cornelius Cossus, Numerius Fabius Ambustus, and L. Valerius Potitus. owing to the action of the senate of veil, a war with that city was threatened. The envoys whom Rome had sent to demand satisfaction received the insolent reply that unless they speedily departed from the city and crossed the fro,呼iers the黔ientines would卿e them呻at Lars Tolum-'. 7 nius naa given. .i ne senate were indignant and passed a decree that the consular trl Dunes should叩ng before the. people. at the7 tT earliest possiDie clay a proposal to aeciare war against v eii. N0 sooner was the subject brought forward than the men who Were liable for service protested. They complained that the war with the Volscians had not been brought to a close, the garrisons oz two x0rts n oftwoforts ' ad been annihilated, and the forts t如ugh recaptured, were held with difficulty, there was not a single year in which there was not fighting, and now, as if th had not enough work on hand, thev were -preparing for a 丘e eS yh 、.砂‘.才J‘J.、.产 war with a most powerful neighbour who would rouse the whole of Etruria. This disaffection amongst the plebs was fanned by their tribunes，who were continually givinz out that the most serious war was the one going on between the senate and the plebs, who were purposely harassed by war and exposed to be butchered by the enemy and kept as it were in banishment far front their homes lest the quiet of city life might awaken memories of their liberties and lead them to discuss schemes for distributing.，中e State lands amongst colonists and securing a tree exercise of rneir franchise. They got hold of the veterans, counted up each man's campaigns and wounds and scars, and asked what blood was still left in hire which could be shed Mate. By raising these topics in public: conversations they produced amongst the plebeians a of opposition to the projected war. The subject was