Begin then to wonder why few persons now undertake your cause.

What are they to expect from you?
is it honours which you give to your adversaries rather than to the champions of the Roman people.

You felt indignant just now, on hearing an expression of this man?
What matters that, if you will prefer this man who threatens woe to you, to those who are desirous to secure for you lands, settlements, and property ?" 50.

This expression of Postumius being conveyed to the soldiers, excited in the camp much greater indignation.

"Did the embezzler of the spoils and the defrauder threaten woe also to the soldiers ?" Accordingly, when the murmur of indignation now became avowed, and the quaestor, Publius Sestius, thought that the mutiny might be quashed by the same violence by which it had been excited; on his sending a lictor to one of the soldiers who was clamorous, when a tumult and scuffle arose from the circumstance, being struck with a stone he retired from the crowd; the person who had given the blow, further observing with a sneer, "That the quaestor got what the general had threatened to the soldiers." Postumius being sent for in consequence of the disturbance, exasperated every thing by the severity of his inquiries and the cruelty of his punishment.