to effect on us, if after our submission we are to experience it,
we will experience unarmed. This is our determination. May the immortal
gods grant that it be as successful as it is dutiful! With respect to
the charges, by which you were induced to declare war against us, though
it is needless to refute by words what has been contradicted by facts;
yet, admitting they were true, we think it safe for us to confess them,
after having shown such evident marks of repentance. Admit then that we
have offended against you, since ye deserve that such satisfaction be
made to you." These were nearly the words used by the Tusculans. They
obtained peace at the present, and not long after the freedom of the
state also. The legions were withdrawn from Tusculum.

27. Camillus, distinguished by his prudence and bravery in the Volscian
war, by his success in the Tusculan expedition, in both by his
extraordinary moderation and forbearance towards his colleague, went out
of office; the military tribunes for the following year being Lucius and
Publius Valerius, Lucius a fifth, Publius a third time, and Caius
Sergius a third time, Lucius Menenius a second time, Spurius Papirius,
and Servius Cornelius Maluginensis. The year required censors also,
chiefly on account of the uncertain representations regarding the debt;
the tribunes of the commons exaggerating the amount of it on account of
the odium of the thing, whilst it was underrated by those whose interest
it was that the difficulty of procuring payment should appear to depend
rather on [the want of] integrity, than of ability in the debtors. The
censors appointed were Caius Sulpicius Camerinus, Spurius Postumius
Regillensis; and the matter having been commenced was interrupted by the
death of Postumius, because it was not conformable to religion that a
substitute should be colleague to a censor. Accordingly after Sulpicius
had resigned his office, other censors having been appointed under some
defect, they did not discharge the office; that a third set should be
appointed was not allowed, as though the gods did not admit a censorship
for that year. The tribunes denied that such mockery of the commons was
to be tolerated; "that the senate were averse to the public tablets, the
witnesses of each man's property, because they were unwilling that the
amount of the debt should be seen, which would clearly show that one
part of the state was depressed by the other; whilst in the mean time
the c