The number of citizens rated were one hundred and seventeen thousand three hundred and nineteen.

The consuls obtained great glory this year both at home and in war, because they both re-established peace abroad and at home; though the state was not in a state of absolute concord, yet it was less disturbed than at other times.
[Footnote 129: _Ni ita esset_, a legal form of expression, amounting in this place to "if Volscius attempted to deny it." _Privatim_.

Besides the quaestors who by virtue of their office were to prosecute Volscius, many persons on their own account, and on their private responsibility, cited him into court, and challenged him to discuss the case before a judge.

A prosecutor was said _ferre judicem res_, when he proposed to the accused person some one out of the _judices selecti_, before whom the case might be tried; if the accused person consented to the person named by prosecutor, then the judge was said _convenisse_, to have been agreed on.

Sometimes the accused was allowed to select his own judge, _judicem dicere_.