y repaired by
such kindness on the part of the Roman people; it seemed to the senate,
however, that something remained to be done to obliterate the
remembrance of public avarice. The consul returns to the city in
triumph, Claelius, the general of the Volscians, being led before his
chariot, and the spoils being carried before him, of which he had
stripped the enemy's army after he had sent them under the yoke.
Quintius the consul, by his civil administration, equalled, which is no
easy matter, the glory attained by his colleague in war; for he so
regulated the domestic care of harmony and peace, by dispensing justice
with moderation to the highest and the lowest, that both the patricians
considered him a strict consul, and the commons, as one sufficiently
lenient. Against the tribunes too he carried his measures more by his
influence than by striving against them. Five consulships conducted with
the same even tenor of conduct, and every part of his life being passed
in a manner worthy of the consular dignity, rendered himself almost more
venerable than the high office itself. On this account no mention was
made of the military tribunes during this consulate.

11. They appoint as consuls Marcus Fabius Vibulanus, Publius AEbutius
Cornicen. Fabius and AEbutius, the consuls, inasmuch as they perceived
that they succeeded to a greater glory of achievements performed at home
and abroad, (the year was rendered particularly remarkable among the
neighbouring states, both friendly and hostile, because relief had been
afforded to the Ardeans in their perilous situation with so much zeal,)
the more strenuously exerted themselves in obtaining a decree of the
senate, that they might completely efface the infamy of the decision
from the memory of men, to the effect that since the state of the
Ardeans had been reduced to a few by intestine war, a colony should be
sent thither as a protection against the Volscians. This is what was
stated publicly on the tables, that the intention entertained of
rescinding the decision might escape the knowledge of the commons and
tribunes. But they had agreed that, a much greater number of Rutulian
colonists being enrolled than of Romans, no land should be distributed,
except that which had been intercepted by the infamous decision; and
that not a sod of it should be assigned to any Roman, until all the
Rutulians had had their share. In this way the land returned to the
Ardeans. The commissioners appoi