Liv. 2.52.1Urbī cum pāce laxior etiam annōna rediit et advectō ex Campāniā frūmentō et, postquam timor sibi cuique futūrae inopiae abiit, eō, quod abditum fuerat, prōlātō.With 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. Liv. 2.52.2Ex cōpiā deinde ōtiōque lascīvīre rūrsus animī et prīstina mala, postquam forīs dēerant, domī quaerere.Then plenty and leisure made minds wanton again, and, since they were lacking abroad, they sought the old evils at home. Liv. 2.52.3Tribūnī plēbem agitāre suō venēnō, agrāriā lēge;The tribunes began stirring up the plebs with their own poison, the agrarian law; Liv. 2.52.3in resistentēs incitāre patrēs nec in ūniversōs modo, sed in singulōs.they incited them against the senators who resisted, and not only against them as a whole, but against individuals. Liv. 2.52.3Q. Cōnsidius et T. Genucius, auctōrēs agrāriae lēgis, T. Menēniō diem dīcunt.Quintus Considius and Titus Genucius, proposers of the agrarian law, summon Titus Menenius to trial. Liv. 2.52.3Invidiae erat āmissum Cremerae praesidium, cum haud procul inde statīva cōnsul habuisset;Odium was roused by the loss of the garrison on the Cremera, since the consul had had his standing camp not far from there; Liv. 2.52.4ea oppressit, cum et patrēs haud minus quam prō Coriolānō adnīsī essent, et patris Agrippae favor hauddum exolēvisset.this 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.
Liv. 2.52.5In multā temperārunt tribūnī;In the fine the tribunes were moderate; Liv. 2.52.5cum capitis anquīsīssent, duo mīlia aeris damnātō multam dīxērunt.although they had brought a capital charge, when he was condemned they set the fine at two thousand asses. Liv. 2.52.5Ea in caput vertit.This proved fatal to him. Liv. 2.52.5Negant tulisse ignōminiam aegritūdinemque;They say that he could not bear the disgrace and the distress; Liv. 2.52.5inde morbō absūmptum esse.and that he was then carried off by illness. Liv. 2.52.6Alius deinde reus Sp. Servīlius, ut cōnsulātū abiit, C. Nautiō et P. Valeriō cōnsulibus, initiō statim annī ab L. Caediciō et T. Statiō tribūnīs diē dictā nōn, ut Menēnius, precibus suīs aut patrum, sed cum multā fīdūciā innocentiae grātiaeque tribūniciōs impetūs tulit.Then 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.
Liv. 2.52.7Et huic proelium cum Tuscīs ad Iāniculum erat crīminī.He too was charged with the battle against the Tuscans at the Janiculum. Liv. 2.52.7Sed fervidī animī vir, ut in pūblicō perīculō ante, sīc tum in suō, nōn tribūnōs modo, sed plēbem ōrātiōne ferōcī refūtandō exprobrandōque T. Menēnī damnātiōnem mortemque, cuius patris mūnere restitūta quondam plēbs eōs ipsōs, quibus tum saevīret, magistrātūs, eās lēgēs habēret, perīculum audāciā discussit.But 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. Liv. 2.52.7Iūvit et Verginius collēga, testis prōductus, participandō laudēs;His colleague Verginius, too, brought forward as a witness, helped him by sharing the credit; Liv. 2.52.8magis tamen Meneniānum — adeō mūtāverant animī — prōfuit iūdicium.yet the verdict on Menenius — so greatly had feelings changed — helped him more.