men." Thus, being both already charged with resentment, and incited (by
this harangue) they went severally to their homes, and by instigating
each his own state, they succeeded in making the entire Volscian nation
revolt.

[Footnote 94: _Audientes secunda irae verba_--attentively listening to
words which fanned (or chimed in with) their anger.--_St_.]

39. The generals selected for that war by the unanimous choice of all
the states were Attius Tullus and Caius Marcius; in the latter of whom
their chief hope was reposed. And this hope he by no means disappointed:
so that it clearly appeared that the Roman commonwealth was more
powerful by reason of its generals than its army. Having marched to
Circeii, he expelled from thence the Roman colonists, and delivered that
city in a state of freedom to the Volscians. From thence passing across
the country through by-roads into the Latin way, he deprived the Romans
of their recently acquired towns, Satricum, Longula, Polusca, Corioli.
He next retook Lavinium: he then took in succession Corbio, Vitellia,
Trebia, Lavici, and Pedum: Lastly he marches from Pedum to the city,[95]
and having pitched his camp at the Cluilian trenches five miles from the
city, he from thence ravages the Roman territory, guards being sent
among the devastators to preserve the lands of the patricians intact;
whether as being incensed chiefly against the plebeians, or in order
that dissension might arise between the senators and the people. And
this certainly would have arisen, so powerfully did the tribunes, by
inveighing against the leading men of the state, incite the plebeians,
already sufficiently violent of themselves; but their apprehensions of
the foe, the strongest bond of concord, united their minds, distrustful
and rancorous though they were. The only matter not agreed on was this,
that the senate and consuls rested their hopes on nothing else than on
arms; the plebeians preferred any thing to war. Sp. Nautius and Sex.
Furius were now consuls. Whilst they were reviewing the legions, posting
guards along the walls and other places where they had determined that
there should be posts and watches, a vast multitude of persons
demanding peace terrified them first by their seditious clamour; then
compelled them to convene the senate, to consider the question of
sending ambassadors to C. Marcius. The senate entertained the question,
when it became evident that the spirits of the plebeians were giving