The exasperation of the commons and soldiers against the consul was then augmented.

Accordingly, when by a decree of the senate the consul entered the city in an ovation, rude verses in couplets were thrown out with military licence; in which the consul was severely handled, whilst the name of Maenius was cried up with encomiums, when at every mention of the tribune the attachment of the surrounding people vied by their applause and commendation with the loud praises of the soldiers.

And that circumstance occasioned more anxiety to the patricians, than the wanton raillery of the soldiers against the consul, which was in a manner a usual thing; and the election of Maenius among the military tribunes being deemed as no longer questionable, if he should become a candidate, he was kept out of it by an election for consuls being appointed.
54.

Cneius Cornelius Cossus and Lucius Furius Medullinus were elected consuls.

The commons were not on any other occasion more dissatisfied at the election of tribunes not being conceded to them.