The tribes, when convened, decided that the district was the public property of the Roman people.

Nor is it denied that it might have been so, if they had gone to other judges; now the disgrace of the decision is certainly not at all diminished by the fairness of the title: nor did it appear more disgraceful or more hideous to the people of Aricia and of Ardea, than it did to the Roman senate.

The remainder of the year continued free from either city or foreign commotions..