Confer with your colleague, that he may postpone this business till the arrival of the consuls; even the AEquans and the Volscians, when our consuls were carried off by pestilence last year, did not press on us with a cruel and tyrannical war." The tribunes confer with Terentillus, and the bill being to all appearance deferred, but in reality abandoned, the consuls were immediately sent for.
[Footnote 114: Niebuhr n.

24, 634, would have us read _Terentilius_, the Roman family names always, he says, ending in _ius_.

He also thinks that for _Arsa_, we should read _Harsa_.] 10.

Lucretius returned with immense spoil, and much greater glory; and this glory he increased on his arrival, by exposing all the booty in the Campus Martius, so that each person might, during three days, recognise his own and carry it away; the remainder was sold, for which no owners appeared.

A triumph was by universal consent due to the consul: but the matter was deferred, the tribune still pressing his law; this to the consul seemed of greater importance.