ur of the senate was involved.
For no one laid against them any other impeachment, either of their mode
of life or of their conduct in office, save that, to gratify the
patricians, they had protested against the tribunitian law. The
resentment of the commons, however, prevailed over the influence of the
senate; and by a most pernicious precedent these men, though innocent,
were condemned [to pay a fine of] ten thousand _asses_ in weight. At
this the patricians were very much incensed. Camillus openly charged the
commons with gross violation of duty, "who, now turning their venom
against their own body, did not feel that by their iniquitous sentence
on the tribune they abolished the right of protesting; that abolishing
this right of protesting, they had upset the tribunitian authority. For
they were mistaken in expecting that the patricians would tolerate the
unbridled licentiousness of that office. If tribunitian violence could
not be repelled by tribunitian aid, that the patricians would find out
some other weapon." The consuls he also blamed, because they had in
silence suffered those tribunes who had followed the authority of the
senate to be deceived by [their reliance] on the public faith. By openly
expressing these sentiments, he every day still further exasperated the
angry feelings of the people.

30. But he ceased not to urge the senate to oppose the law; "that when
the day for proposing the law had arrived they should go down to the
forum with no other feeling than as men who remembered that they had to
contend for their altars and homes, and the temples of the gods, and the
soil in which they had been born. For that as far as he himself
individually was concerned, if during this contest [to be sustained] by
his country it were allowable for him to think of his own glory, it
would even reflect honour on himself, that a city captured by him should
be densely inhabited, that he would daily enjoy the monument of his
glory, and that he would have before his eyes a city borne by him in his
triumph, that all would tread in the footsteps of his renown. But that
he deemed it an impiety that a city deserted and forsaken by the
immortal gods should be inhabited; that the Roman people should reside
in a captive soil, and that a vanquished should be taken in exchange for
a victorious country." Stimulated by these exhortations of their leader,
the patricians, both young and old, entered the forum in a body, when
the law wa