nted to transplant the colony to Ardea
were Agrippa Menenius, Titus Claelius Siculus, and Marcus AEbutius Elva.
When they, in the discharge of their by no means popular office, had
given offence to the commons by assigning to the allies the land which
the Roman people had decided to be their own, and were not even much
supported by the patricians, because they had not deferred in any way to
the influence of any one, a day having been appointed for them by the
tribunes to appear before the people, they escaped all vexatious
annoyance by enrolling themselves as settlers and remaining in the
colony, which they now had as a testimony of their integrity and
justice.

12. There was peace at home and abroad both this and the following year,
Caius Furius Pacilus and Marcus Papirius Crassus being consuls. The
games which had been vowed by the decemvirs, in pursuance of a decree of
the senate on occasion of the secession of the commons from the
patricians, were performed this year. An occasion for sedition was
sought in vain by Paetelius, who, having been made a tribune of the
commons a second time, by denouncing these same threats, could neither
prevail on the consuls to submit to the senate the questions concerning
the division of the lands among the people; and when, after a hard
struggle, he had succeeded so far that the patricians should be
consulted as to whether it was their pleasure that an election should be
held of consuls or of tribunes, consuls were ordered to be elected; and
the menaces of the tribune were now laughed at, when he threatened that
he would stop the levy, inasmuch as the neighbouring states being now
quiet, there was no occasion either for war or for preparations for war.
This tranquil state of things is followed by a year, in which Proculus
Geganius Macerinus, Lucius Menenius Lanatus were consuls, remarkable for
a variety of disasters and dangers, also for disturbances, famine, for
their having almost submitted their necks to the yoke of arbitrary power
through the allurement of largesses. Foreign war alone was wanting, by
which if matters had been aggravated, they could scarcely have stood out
against them by the aid of all the gods. Their misfortunes began with
famine; whether it was that the season was unfavourable to the crops, or
that the cultivation of the land was relinquished for the allurements of
the city, and of public harangues; for both causes are assigned. And the
patricians accused the c