Then the contest about the law being given up, a new dispute arose regarding the levy.

And the consular authority[132] was about to be overpowered by tribunitian influence, when an additional cause of alarm comes on them: that the Sabine army had made a descent into the Roman lands to commit depredations; that from thence they were advancing to the city.

This fear influenced the tribunes to allow the levy to proceed, not without a stipulation, however, that since they had been foiled for five years, and as that was but little protection to the commons, ten tribunes of the people should henceforward be elected.
Necessity wrung this from the patricians; this exception only they made, that they should not hereafter re-elect the same tribunes.

The election for the tribunes was held immediately, lest that measure also, like others, might prove a delusion after the war.

On the thirty-sixth year after the first tribunes, ten were elected, two from each class; and provision was made that they should be elected in this manner for the future.