the dictator, and saluted him as
their patron when setting out. The senate at Rome, being convened by
Quintus Fabius, praefect of the city, ordered Quintius to enter the city
in triumph, in the order of march in which he was coming. The leaders of
the enemy were led before his car: the military standards were carried
before him: his army followed laden with spoil. Tables with provisions
are said to have been laid out before the houses of all, and (the
soldiers) partaking of the entertainment, followed the car with the
triumphal hymn and the usual jests, after the manner of revellers. On
that day the freedom of the state was granted to Lucius Mamilius of
Tusculum, with universal approbation. The dictator would have laid down
his office, had not the assembly for the trial of Marcus Volscius, the
false witness, detained him; the fear of the dictator prevented the
tribunes from obstructing it. Volscius was condemned and went into exile
to Lanuvium. Quintius laid down his dictatorship on the sixteenth day,
having received it for six months. During those days the consul Nautius
engages the Sabines at Eretum with distinguished success. Besides the
devastation of their lands, this additional blow also befell the
Sabines. Fabius Quintus was sent to Algidum as successor to Minucius.
Towards the end of the year the tribunes began to agitate the question
of the law; but because two armies were abroad, the patricians carried
the point, that no business should be proposed to the people. The
commons succeeded in electing the same tribunes for the fifth time.
They report that wolves seen in the Capitol were driven away by dogs;
that on account of that prodigy the Capitol was purified. Such were the
transactions in that year.

30. Quintus Minucius and Caius Horatius Pulvillus follow as the next
consuls. At the commencement of this year, when there was peace abroad,
the same tribunes and the same law occasioned disturbances at home; and
parties would have proceeded further, (so highly were their passions
inflamed,) had not, as if for the very purpose, news been brought, that
by an attack of the AEquans the garrison at Corbio had been cut off. The
consuls convene the senate; they are ordered to raise a hasty levy and
to proceed to Algidum. Then the contest about the law being given up, a
new dispute arose regarding the levy. And the consular authority[132]
was about to be overpowered by tribunitian influence, when an additional
cause of a