XXXVIII.  By his return to Rome with great spoils, he proved that those men were right who had not feared that weakness or old age would impair the faculties of a general of daring and experience, but who had chosen him, ill and unwilling to act as he was, rather than men in the prime of life, who were eager to hold military commands.  For this reason, when the people of Tusculum were reported to be in insurrection, they bade Camillus take one of the other five tribunes as his colleague, and march against them.  Camillus, in spite of all that the rest of the tribunes could urge, for they all wished to be taken, chose Lucius Furius, whom no one could have supposed he would have chosen; for he it was who had been so eager to fight, against the better judgment of Camillus, and so had brought about the defeat in the late war; however, Camillus chose him rather than any other, wishing, it would appear, to conceal his misfortune and wipe out his disgrace.

The people of Tusculum cleverly repaired their fault.  When Camillus marched to attack them they filled the country with men working in the fields and tending cattle just as in time of peace; the city gates were open, the boys at school, the lower classes plying various trades, and the richer citizens walking in the market-place in peaceful dress.  The magistrates bustled about the city, pointing out where the Romans were to be quartered, as if the thought of treachery had never entered their minds.  Camillus, though this conduct did not shake his belief in their guilt, was moved to pity by their repentance.  He ordered them to go to Rome and beg the Senate to pardon them; and when they appeared, he himself used his influence to procure their forgiveness, and the admission of Tusculum to the Roman franchise.  These were the most remarkable events of his sixth tribuneship.

XXXIX.  After this, Licinius Stolo put himself at the head of the plebeians in their great quarrel with the Senate.  They demanded that consuls should be re-established, one of whom should always be a plebeian, and that they should never both be patricians.  Tribunes of the people were appointed, but the people would not suffer any election of consuls to be held.  As this want of chief magistrates seemed likely to lead to still greater disorders, the Senate, much against the will of the people, appointed Camillus dictator for the fourth time.  He himself did not wish for the post, for he was loth to oppose men who had been his comrades in many hard-fought campaigns, as indeed he had spent much more of his life in the camp with his soldiers than with the patrician party in political intrigues, by one of which he was now appointed, as that party hoped that if successful he would crush the power of the plebeians, while in case of failure he would be ruined.  However, he made an effort to deal with the present difficulty.  Knowing the day on which the tribunes intended to bring forward their law, he published a muster-roll of men for military