1Then negotiations for harmony were begun, and terms were agreed on: that the plebs should have their own magistrates, inviolable, who should have the right of bringing help against the consuls, and that no senator should be allowed to hold that office. 2So two tribunes of the plebs were created, Gaius Licinius and Lucius Albinus. 2These created three colleagues for themselves; 2it is agreed that among them was Sicinius, the author of the sedition; 2about who the other two were there is less agreement: there are those who say that only two tribunes were created on the Sacred Mount, and that the sacred law was passed there. 3During the secession of the plebs Spurius Cassius and Postumus Cominius had entered on their consulship.
4In their consulship a treaty was struck with the Latin peoples. 4To conclude it one consul stayed at Rome; 4the other, sent to the Volscian war, routs and puts to flight the Volsci of Antium, pursues them when they had been driven into the town of Longula, and gains possession of its walls. 5From there he went straight on and took Polusca, also of the Volsci; 5then he attacked Corioli with great force. 5There was at that time in the camp, among the foremost of the young men, Gnaeus Marcius, a youth ready both in counsel and in action, who was afterwards given the surname Coriolanus. 6When the Roman army, besieging Corioli and intent on the townspeople whom it held shut up inside, with no fear of war threatening from outside, was suddenly attacked by Volscian legions that had set out from Antium, and at the same moment the enemy had burst out of the town, Marcius happened to be on guard.
7With a picked band of soldiers he not only beat back the attack of those bursting out but boldly burst in through the open gate into the nearest part of the city, and after a slaughter seized fire at random and threw it onto the buildings next to the wall. 8Then the shouting of the townspeople, mixed with the wailing of women and children, which arose at first in terror, as usually happens, both raised the Romans' spirits and threw the Volsci into confusion, seeing that the city they had come to help had been taken. 9So the Volsci of Antium were routed, and the town of Corioli taken; 9and Marcius by his own glory so overshadowed the fame of the consul that, if the treaty with the Latins, engraved on a bronze column, did not stand as a record that it was struck by Spurius Cassius alone, because his colleague had been absent, the memory that Postumus Cominius had waged war with the Volsci would have vanished.
10In the same year Agrippa Menenius dies, a man all his life dear alike to senators and plebs, and dearer still to the plebs after the secession. 11This man, the mediator and arbiter of harmony among the citizens, the envoy of the senators to the plebs, the man who brought the Roman plebs back into the city, lacked the means for a funeral; 11the plebs buried him, contributing a sextans a head.