If the matter, conducted with gentleness, should again return to the consuls without popular turbulence, that the commons might be induced to forget their tribunes, either by the intervention of wars or by the moderation of the consuls in exercising their authority.

A levy is proclaimed amid the silence of the patricians; the young men answer to their names, as the government was without appeal.

The legions being enrolled, the decemvirs set about arranging among themselves who should set out to the war, who command the armies.

The leading men among the decemvirs were, Quintus Fabius and Appius Claudius.

There appeared a more serious war at home than abroad.