Thanks were returned to the protestors by the senate.

The movers of the law, having convened a meeting, and styling their colleagues traitors to the interests of the commons and the slaves of the consulars, and after inveighing against them in other abusive language, relinquished the measure.
49.

The following year, on which Publius Cornelius Cossus, Caius Valerius Potitus, Quintus Quintius Cincinnatus, Numerius Fabius Vibulanus were military tribunes with consular power, would have brought with it two continual wars, had not the Veientian campaign been deferred by the religious scruples of the leaders, whose lands were destroyed, chiefly by the ruin of the country-seats, in consequence of the Tiber having overflowed its banks.

At the same time the loss sustained three years before prevented the AEquans from affording assistance to the Bolani, a state belonging to their own nation.

Excursions had been made from thence on the contiguous territory of Lavici, and hostilities were committed on the new colony.