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The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08

BOOK III
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Marcus Valerius and Spurius Virginius are next elected consuls.
Quiet prevailed at home and abroad.

They laboured under a scarcity of provisions on account of the excessive rains.

A law was proposed regarding the making Mount Aventine public property.

The same tribunes of the people being re-elected on the following year, Titus Romilius and Caius Veturius being consuls, strongly recommended the law[133] in all their harangues, "That they were ashamed of their number increased to no purpose, if that question should lie for their two years in the same manner as it had lain for the whole preceding five." Whilst they were most busily employed in these matters, an alarming account comes from Tusculum, that the AEquans were in the Tusculan territory.

The recent services of that state made them ashamed of delaying relief.


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