y to obtain the signal title of cruelty. Besides,
the cognomen of "Imperiosus" was affixed to Manlius: Postumius has not
been marked by any hateful brand. Caius Julius the consul, in the
absence of his colleague, without casting lots, dedicated the temple of
Apollo: Quintius resenting this, when, after disbanding his army, he
returned into the city, made a complaint of it in the senate to no
purpose.

To the year marked by great achievements is added an event which seemed
to have no relation to the interest of Rome, viz. that the
Carthaginians, destined to be such formidable enemies, then, for the
first times on the occasion of some disturbances among the Sicilians,
transported an army into Sicily in aid of one of the parties.

[Footnote 156: _Senators._ Niebuhr, ii. note 995, seems to doubt whether
these belonged to single cities or were the senators of the entire
Volscian nation.]

30. In the city efforts were made by the tribunes of the people that
military tribunes with consular power should be elected; nor could the
point be carried. Lucius Papirius Crassus and Lucius Junius were made
consuls. When the ambassadors of the AEquans solicited a treaty from the
senate, and instead of a treaty a surrender was pointed out to them,
they obtained a truce for eight years. The affairs of the Volscians, in
addition to the disaster sustained at Algidum, were involved in strifes
and seditions by an obstinate contention between the advocates for peace
and those for war. The Romans enjoyed tranquillity on all sides. The
consuls, having ascertained through the information of one of the
college, that a law regarding the appraising of the fines,[157] which
was very acceptable to the people, was about to be introduced by the
tribunes, took the lead themselves in proposing it. The new consuls were
Lucius Sergius Fidenas a second time, and Hostus Lucretius Tricipitinus.
During their consulate nothing worth mentioning occurred. The consuls
who followed them were Aulus Cornelius Cossus and Titus Quintius Pennus
a second time. The Veientians made excursions into the Roman territory.
A report existed that some of the youth of the Fidenatians had been
participators in that depredation; and the cognizance of that matter was
left to Lucius Sergius, and Quintus Servilius and Mamercus AEmilius. Some
of them were sent into banishment to Ostia, because it did not appear
sufficiently clear why during these days they had been absent from
Fidenae.