Servilius, more inclined to moderate measures, thought that while their minds were in this ferment, it would be both more safe and more easy to bend than to break them.

Amidst these debates, another terror of a more serious nature presented itself.
24.

Some Latin horse came full speed to Rome, with the alarming news that the Volscians were marching with a hostile army, to besiege the city, the announcement of which (so completely had discord made the state two from one) affected the senators and people in a far different manner.

The people exulted with joy, and said, that the gods were come as avengers of the tyranny of the fathers.

They encouraged one another not to enrol their names, that it was better that all should perish together, than that they should perish alone.