It was resolved, therefore, to enter into a treaty, and to make them such offers as should induce them to return.8.Ten commissioners were deputed.

The dignity and popularity of the ambassadors procured them a very respectful reception among the soldiers, and a conference began.

They employed all their oratory; while Sicin'ius and Lu'cius Ju'nius, who were speakers for the soldiery, aggravated their distresses with all that masculine eloquence which is the child of nature.
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The conference had now continued for a long time, when Mene'nius Agrip'pa, who had been originally a plebe'ian himself, a shrewd man, and who, consequently, knew what kind of eloquence was most likely to please the people, addressed them with that celebrated fable of the body and the members, which is so finely told by Livy.[3] 10.

This fable, the application of which is obvious, had an instantaneous effect upon the people.