1When this war was finished, a tribunician war at home alarms the senators. 1The tribunes cry out that it is by trickery that the army is being kept abroad; 1this was a ruse to get rid of the law: they would nonetheless carry through what they had undertaken. 2Lucius Lucretius, the prefect of the city, prevailed, however, in having the tribunes' proceedings put off until the consuls' arrival. 2A new cause of unrest had also arisen. 3The quaestors Aulus Cornelius and Quintus Servilius had summoned Marcus Volscius to trial, because he had undoubtedly come forward as a false witness against Caeso. 3For it was coming out from many indications that Volscius' brother, from the time he once fell ill, had not only never been seen in public, but had not even risen from his sickbed, and had died of a wasting disease lasting many months; and that at the time to which the witness had assigned the crime Caeso had not been seen at Rome, since those who had served with him affirmed that he had then been constantly at the standards with them, without any leave.
5If this were not so, many privately challenged Volscius to a trial before a judge. 6Since he did not dare to go to trial, all these facts agreeing together made Volscius' condemnation no more doubtful than Caeso's had been on Volscius' evidence. 7The obstacle was the tribunes, who said they would not allow the quaestors to hold an assembly about the defendant unless one had first been held about the law. 7So both matters were dragged out until the consuls' arrival. 8When they entered the city in triumph with their victorious army, a great many believed the tribunes had been cowed, because there was silence about the law. 9But they — for it was already the end of the year — aiming at a fourth tribunate, had turned the struggle away from the law to a dispute over the elections.
9And although the consuls had striven against the prolonging of the tribunate no less than if a law were being proposed to diminish their own majesty, victory in the contest lay with the tribunes. 9In the same year peace was granted to the Aequi at their request. 10The census, a business begun in the previous year, is completed; 10and they say this was the tenth lustrum closed since the founding of the city. 10The citizens counted in the census numbered one hundred and seventeen thousand three hundred and nineteen. 11The consuls won great glory at home and in war that year, because they both secured peace abroad and, at home, though the state was not harmonious, it was still less hostile than at other times.