that the Carthaginians, destined to be such formidable enemies, then, for the first times on the occasion of some disturbances among the Sicilians, transported an army into Sicily in aid of one of the parties.
[Footnote 156: _Senators._ Niebuhr, ii.

note 995, seems to doubt whether these belonged to single cities or were the senators of the entire Volscian nation.] 30.

In the city efforts were made by the tribunes of the people that military tribunes with consular power should be elected; nor could the point be carried.

Lucius Papirius Crassus and Lucius Junius were made consuls.

When the ambassadors of the AEquans solicited a treaty from the senate, and instead of a treaty a surrender was pointed out to them, they obtained a truce for eight years.