1With peace, a more plentiful supply of corn too returned to the city, both because grain was brought in from Campania and because, once each man's fear of future want had passed, what had been hidden away was brought out. 2Then plenty and leisure made minds wanton again, and, since they were lacking abroad, they sought the old evils at home. 3The tribunes began stirring up the plebs with their own poison, the agrarian law; 3they incited them against the senators who resisted, and not only against them as a whole, but against individuals. 3Quintus Considius and Titus Genucius, proposers of the agrarian law, summon Titus Menenius to trial. 3Odium was roused by the loss of the garrison on the Cremera, since the consul had had his standing camp not far from there; 4this crushed him, although the senators had exerted themselves no less than on behalf of Coriolanus, and the popularity of his father Agrippa had not yet faded.
5In the fine the tribunes were moderate; 5although they had brought a capital charge, when he was condemned they set the fine at two thousand asses. 5This proved fatal to him. 5They say that he could not bear the disgrace and the distress; 5and that he was then carried off by illness. 6Then another defendant, Spurius Servilius, as soon as he left the consulship, in the consulship of Gaius Nautius and Publius Valerius, was summoned to trial at the very beginning of the year by the tribunes Lucius Caedicius and Titus Statius, and withstood the tribunes' assaults not, like Menenius, with his own entreaties or those of the senators, but with great confidence in his innocence and his popularity.
7He too was charged with the battle against the Tuscans at the Janiculum. 7But being a man of fiery spirit, just as before in the danger to the state, so now in his own, by refuting with a defiant speech not only the tribunes but the plebs, and reproaching them with the condemnation and death of Titus Menenius, through whose father's service the plebs had once been restored and now possessed those very magistrates and those laws with which it was then venting its rage, he dispelled the danger by his boldness. 7His colleague Verginius, too, brought forward as a witness, helped him by sharing the credit; 8yet the verdict on Menenius — so greatly had feelings changed — helped him more.