The feet and legs carried it about, the hands worked for it and carried food to it, the mouth ate for it, and so on.

They thought it hard thus all to toil for it, and agreed to do nothing for it--neither to carry it about, clothe it, nor feed it.

But soon all found themselves growing weak and starved, and were obliged to own that all would perish together unless they went on waiting on this seemingly useless belly.

So Agrippa told them that all ranks and states depended on one another, and unless all worked together all must be confusion and go to decay.

The fable seems to have convinced both rich and poor; the debtors were set free and the debts forgiven.
And though the laws about debts do not seem to have been changed, another law was made which gave the plebeians tribunes in peace as well as war.