probation of
the senate, proposed to the people in the Peteline grove, that the
secession should not be visited with chastisement on any of the
soldiers. He also entreated, with their permission, that no one should
either in jest or earnest upbraid any one with that proceeding. A
military devoting law was also passed, that the name of any soldier once
enrolled, should not be erased unless with his own consent; and to the
law [a clause] was added that no one, after he had been a tribune of the
soldiers, should afterwards be a centurion. That demand was made by the
conspirators on account of Publius Salonius; who in alternate years was
both tribune of the soldiers and first centurion, which they now call
_primi pili_. The soldiers were incensed against him, because he had
always been opposed to their recent measures, and had fled from Lantulae,
that he might have no share in them. Accordingly when this alone was not
obtained from the senate through their regard for Salonius, then
Salonius, conjuring the conscript fathers, that they would not value his
promotion more highly than the concord of the state, prevailed in having
that also carried. Equally ineffectual was the demand, that some
deductions should be made from the pay of the cavalry, (they then
received triple,) because they had opposed the conspiracy.

42. Besides these, I find in some writers that Lucius Genucius, tribune
of the commons, proposed to the people, that no one should be allowed to
practise usury; likewise provision was made by other enactments, that no
one should fill the same office within ten years; nor hold two offices
on the same year; and that it should be allowed that both the consuls
should be plebeians. If all these concessions were made to the people,
it is evident that the revolt possessed no little strength. In other
annals it is recorded, that Valerius was not appointed dictator, but
that the entire business was managed by the consuls; and also that that
band of conspirators were driven to arms not before they came to Rome,
but at Rome; and that it was not on the country-house of Titus
Quinctius, but on the residence of Caius Manlius the assault was made by
night, and that he was seized by the conspirators to become their
leader: that having proceeded thence to the fourth mile-stone, they
posted themselves in a well-defended place; and that it was not with the
leaders mention of a reconciliation originated; but that suddenly, when
the arm