imposed on him, when found guilty, a fine of only two thousand asses.  This proved fatal to him.  They say that he could not brook disgrace and anguish of mind:  and that, in consequence, he was carried off by disease.  Another senator, Spurius Servilius was soon after arraigned, as soon as he went out of office a day of trial having been appointed for him by the tribunes, Lucius Caedicius and Titus Statius, immediately at the beginning of the year, in the consulship of Gaius Nautius and Publius Valerius:  he did not, however, like Menenius, meet the attacks of the tribunes with supplications on the part of himself and the patricians, but with firm reliance on his own integrity and his personal popularity.  The battle with the Tuscans at the Janiculum was also the charge brought against him:  but being a man of impetuous spirit, as he had formerly done in time of public peril, so now in the danger which threatened himself, he dispelled it by boldly meeting it, by confuting not only the tribunes but the commons also, in a haughty speech, and upbraiding them with the condemnation and death of Titus Menenius, by the good offices of whose father the commons had formerly been re-established, and now had those magistrates and enjoyed those laws, by virtue of which they then acted so insolently:  his colleague Verginius also, who was brought forward as a witness, aided him by assigning to him a share of his own glory:  however—­so had they changed their mind—­the condemnation of Menenius was of greater service to him.

The contests at home were now concluded.  A war against the Veientines, with whom the Sabines had united their forces, broke out afresh.  The consul Publius Valerius, after auxiliaries had been sent for from the Latins and Hernicans, being despatched to Veii with an army, immediately attacked the Sabine camp, which had been pitched before the walls of their allies, and occasioned such great consternation that, while scattered in different directions, they sallied forth in small parties to repel the assault of the enemy, the gate which he first atacked was taken:  then within the rampart a massacre rather than a battle took place.  From within the camp the alarm spread also into the city; the Veientines ran to arms in as great a panic as if Veii had been taken:  some came up to the support of the Sabines, others fell upon the Romans, who had directed all their force against the camp.  For a little while they were disconcerted and thrown into confusion; then they in like manner formed two fronts and made a stand:  and the cavalry, being commanded by the consul to charge, routed the Tuscans and put them to flight; and in the self-same hour two armies and two of the most influential and powerful of the neighbouring states were vanquished.  While these events were taking place at Veii, the Volscians and AEquans had pitched their camp in Latin territory, and laid waste their frontiers.  The Latins, being joined by the Hernicans, without either