and the town was left with a garrison. Thus
having recovered two allied cities from the enemy, the tribunes marched
back their victorious army to Rome. During the same year restitution was
demanded from the Latins and Hernicians, and the cause was asked why
they had not during some years supplied soldiers according to
stipulation. An answer was given in a full assembly of both nations,
"that neither the blame was public, nor was there any design in the
circumstance of some of their youth having served among the Volscians.
That these individuals, however, suffered the penalty of their improper
conduct, and that none of them had returned. But that the cause of their
not supplying the soldiers had been their continual terror from the
Volscians, which pest adhering to their side, had not been capable of
being destroyed by so many successive wars." Which answer being reported
to the senate, they decided that there was wanting rather a seasonable
time for declaring war than sufficient grounds for it.

11. In the following year, Aulus Manlius, Publius Cornelius, Titus and
Lucius Quintii Capitolini, Lucius Papirius Cursor a second time, Caius
Sergius a second time, being military tribunes with consular power, a
grievous war broke out abroad, a still more grievous disturbance at
home; the war originated on the part of the Volscians, to which was
added a revolt of the Latins and Hernicians; the sedition from one from
whom it could be least of all apprehended, a man of patrician birth and
distinguished character, Marcus Manlius Capitolinus; who being too
aspiring in mind, whilst he despised the other leading men, envied one,
who was peculiarly distinguished both by honours and by merit, Marcus
Furius: he became indignant that he should be the only man among the
magistrates; the only man at the head of the armies; that he now
attained such eminence that he treated not as colleagues but as mere
tools the persons elected under the same auspices; though, in the mean
time, if any one would form a just estimate, his country could not have
been recovered by Marcus Furius from the siege of the enemy, had not the
Capitol and citadel been first preserved by him; and the other attacked
the Gauls, whilst their attention was distracted between receiving the
gold and the hope of peace, when he himself drove them off when armed
and taking the citadel; of the other's glory, a man's share appertained
to all the soldiers who conquered along with hi