irs of the
Volscians were in a better condition than those of the Roman people.
That fortune and the night had occasioned a multitude of mistakes on
both sides:" and then when he begged that they would not detain him,
fatigued with toil and wounds, he was dismissed with high encomiums, not
more on his bravery than his modesty. While these things were going on,
the consul was at the temple of Rest on the road leading to Lavici.
Waggons and other modes of conveyance were sent thither from the city,
and took up the army, exhausted by the action and the travelling by
night. Soon after the consul entered the city, not more anxious to
remove the blame from himself, than to bestow on Tempanius the praises
so well deserved. Whilst the citizens were still sorrowful in
consequence of their ill success, and incensed against their leaders,
Marcus Postumius, being arraigned and brought before them, he who had
been military tribune with consular power at Veii, is condemned in a
fine of ten thousand _asses_ in weight, of brass. His colleague, Titus
Quintius, who endeavoured to shift the entire blame of that period on
his previously condemned colleague, was acquitted by all the tribes,
because both in the country of the Volscians, when consul, he had
conducted business successfully under the auspices of the dictator,
Postumius Tubertus, and also at Fidenae, as lieutenant-general of another
dictator, Mamercus AEmilius. The memory of his father, Cincinnatus, a man
highly deserving of veneration, is said to have been serviceable to him,
as also Capitolinus Quintius, now advanced in years, humbly entreating
that they would not suffer him who had so short a time to live to be the
bearer of such dismal tidings to Cincinnatus.

42. The commons elected as tribunes of the people, though absent, Sextus
Tempanius, Aulus Sellius, Sextus Antistius, and Spurius Icilius, whom
the horsemen by the advice of Tempanius had appointed to command them as
centurions. The senate, inasmuch as the name of consuls was now becoming
displeasing through the hatred felt towards Sempronius, ordered that
military tribunes with consular power should be elected. Those elected
were Lucius Manlius Capitolinus, Quintus Antonius Merenda, Lucius
Papirius Mugillanus. At the very commencement of the year, Lucius
Hortensius, a tribune of the people, appointed a day of trial for Caius
Sempronius, a consul of the preceding year, and when his four
colleagues, in sight of the Roman