person who
inflicted the punishment: that he, having tried him at home, scourged
him and put him to death, and consecrated his son's private property to
Ceres; that out of this a statue was set up and inscribed, "given from
the Cassian family." In some authors I find it stated, and that is more
probable, that a day of trial was assigned him for high treason, by the
questors, Kaeso Fabius and Lucius Valerius; and that he was condemned by
the decision of the people; that his house was demolished by a public
decree: this is the area before the temple of Tellus. But whether that
trial was private or public, he was condemned in the consulship of Ser.
Cornelius and Q. Fabius.

42. The resentment of the people against Cassius was not of long
duration. The allurements of the agrarian law, now that its proposer was
gone, were of themselves gaining ground in their minds; and this feeling
was further heightened by the parsimonious conduct of the senators, who,
the Volsci and AEqui having been defeated that year, defrauded the
soldiers of the booty; whatever was taken from the enemy, the consul
Fabius sold, and lodged the proceeds in the treasury. The Fabian name
was odious to the commons on account of the last consul: the senate
however succeeded in having Kaeso Fabius elected consul with L. AEmilius.
The commons, still further incensed at this, stirred up foreign war by
exciting disturbance at home; civil dissensions were then interrupted by
war. The senators and commons uniting, under the conduct of AEmilius,
conquered in battle the Volsci and AEqui who renewed hostilities. The
retreat, however, destroyed more of the enemy than the battle; so
perseveringly did the horse pursue them when routed. During the same
year, on the ides of July, the temple of Castor was dedicated: it had
been vowed during the Latin war in the dictatorship of Posthumius: his
son, who was elected duumvir for that special purpose, dedicated it. In
that year also the minds of the people were excited by the charms of the
agrarian law. The tribunes of the people were for enhancing the popular
power (vested in them) by promoting the popular law. The senators,
considering that there was enough and more than enough of frenzy in the
multitude without any additional incitement, viewed with horror
largesses and all inducements to temerity: the senators found in the
consuls most energetic abettors in making resistance. That portion of
the commonwealth therefore preva