To this man, the mediator and umpire in restoring concord among his countrymen, the ambassador of the senators to the commons, the person who brought back the commons to the city, were wanting the expenses of his funeral.

The people buried him by the contribution of a sextans from each person.
[Footnote 88: I have here adopted the reading of Stacker and others, scil.

_ad terrorem, ut solet, primum ortus_.] 34.

T.Geganius and P.Minutius were next elected consuls.

In this year, when every thing was quiet from war abroad, and the dissensions were healed at home, another much more serious evil fell upon the state; first a scarcity of provisions, in consequence of the lands lying untilled during the secession of the commons; then a famine such as befals those who are besieged.