In particular, Marcius Coriolanus, an enemy to tribunitian power, says, "If they desire the former rate of provisions, let them restore to the senators their former rights.

Why do I, after being sent under the yoke, after being, as it were, ransomed from robbers, behold plebeian magistrates, and Sicinius invested with power?
Shall I submit to these indignities longer than is necessary?
Shall I, who would not have endured King Tarquin, tolerate Sicinius.

Let him now secede, let him call away the commons.
The road lies open to the sacred mount and to other hills.

Let them carry off the corn from our lands, as they did three years since.

Let them have the benefit of that scarcity which in their frenzy they have occasioned.