hemselves of the charge [of being concerned] in the Volscian war, and
demanding back the prisoners, that they may punish them according to
their own laws, received a harsh answer; the colonists the severer,
because being Roman citizens they had formed the abominable design of
attacking their own country. They were therefore not only refused with
respect to the prisoners, but notice was given them in the name of the
senate, who however forbore from such a proceeding in the case of the
allies, instantly to depart from the city, from the presence and sight
of the Roman people; lest the law of embassy, provided for the
foreigner, not for the citizen, should afford them no protection.

18. The sedition excited by Manlius reassuming its former violence, on
the expiration of the year the election was held, and military tribunes
with consular power were elected from among the patricians; they were
Servius Cornelius Maluginensis a third time, Publius Valerius Potitus a
second time, Marcus Furius Camillus, Servius Sulpicius Rufus a second
time, Caius Papirius Crassus, Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus a second time.
At the commencement of which year peace with foreign countries afforded
every opportunity both to the patricians and plebeians: to the
plebeians, because not being called away by any levy, they conceived
hopes of destroying usury, whilst they had so influential a leader; to
the patricians, because their minds were not called away by any external
terror from relieving the evils existing at home. Accordingly, as both
sides arose much more strenuous then ever, Manlius also was present for
the approaching contest. Having summoned the commons to his house, he
holds consultations both by night and day with the leading men amongst
them with respect to effecting a revolution of affairs, being filled
with a much higher degree both of spirit and of resentment than he had
been before. The recent ignominy had lighted up resentment in a mind
unused to affront; it gave him additional courage, that the dictator had
not ventured to the same extent against him, as Quinctius Cincinnatus
had done in the case of Spurius Maelius, and because the dictator had not
only endeavoured to avoid the unpopularity of his imprisonment by
abdicating the dictatorship, but not even the senate could bear up
against it. Elated by these considerations, and at the same time
exasperated, he set about inflaming the minds of the commons, already
sufficiently heated