Liv. 3.24.1Hōc bellō perfectō tribūnicium domī bellum patrēs territat.When this war was finished, a tribunician war at home alarms the senators. Liv. 3.24.1Clāmant fraude fierī, quod forīs teneātur exercitus;The tribunes cry out that it is by trickery that the army is being kept abroad; Liv. 3.24.1frūstrātiōnem eam lēgis tollendae esse: sē nihilō minus rem susceptam perāctūrōs.this was a ruse to get rid of the law: they would nonetheless carry through what they had undertaken. Liv. 3.24.2Obtinuit tamen L. Lucrētius, praefectus urbis, ut āctiōnēs tribūniciae in adventum cōnsulum differrentur.Lucius Lucretius, the prefect of the city, prevailed, however, in having the tribunes' proceedings put off until the consuls' arrival. Liv. 3.24.2Erat et nova exorta causa mōtūs.A new cause of unrest had also arisen. Liv. 3.24.3A. Cornēlius et Q. Servīlius quaestōrēs M. Volsciō, quod falsus haud dubiē testis in Caesōnem extitisset, diem dīxerant.The quaestors Aulus Cornelius and Quintus Servilius had summoned Marcus Volscius to trial, because he had undoubtedly come forward as a false witness against Caeso. Liv. 3.24.3Multīs enim ēmānābat indiciīs neque frātrem Volscī, ex quō semel fuerit aeger, umquam nōn modo vīsum in pūblicō, sed nē adsurrēxisse quidem ex morbō multōrumque tābe mēnsum mortuum, nec iīs temporibus, in quae testis crīmen coniēcisset, Caesōnem Rōmae vīsum, adfirmantibus, quī ūnā meruerant, sēcum eum tum frequentem ad signa sine ūllō commeātū fuisse.For 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.
Liv. 3.24.5Nisi ita esset, multī prīvātim ferēbant Volsciō iūdicem.If this were not so, many privately challenged Volscius to a trial before a judge. Liv. 3.24.6Cum ad iūdicium īre nōn audēret, omnēs eae rēs in ūnum congruentēs haud magis dubiam damnātiōnem Volscī, quam Caesōnis Volsciō teste fuerat, faciēbant.Since 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. Liv. 3.24.7In morā tribūnī erant, quī comitia quaestōrēs habēre dē reō, nisi prius habita dē lēge essent, passūrōs negābant.The 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. Liv. 3.24.7Ita extrācta utraque rēs in cōnsulum adventum est.So both matters were dragged out until the consuls' arrival. Liv. 3.24.8Quī ubi triumphantēs victōre cum exercitū urbem iniērunt, quia silentium dē lēge erat, perculsōs magna pars crēdēbant tribūnōs.When 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. Liv. 3.24.9At illī — etenim extrēmum annī iam erat — quartum adfectantēs tribūnātum in comitiōrum disceptātiōnem ab lēge certāmen āverterant.But 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.
Liv. 3.24.9Et cum cōnsulēs nihilō minus adversus continuātiōnem tribūnātūs, quam sī lēx minuendae suae maiestātis causā prōmulgāta ferrētur, tetendissent, victōria certāminis penes tribūnōs fuit.And 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. Liv. 3.24.9Eōdem annō Aequīs pāx est petentibus data.In the same year peace was granted to the Aequi at their request. Liv. 3.24.10Cēnsus, rēs priōre annō inchoāta, perficitur;The census, a business begun in the previous year, is completed; Liv. 3.24.10idque lūstrum ab orīgine urbis decimum conditum ferunt.and they say this was the tenth lustrum closed since the founding of the city. Liv. 3.24.10Cēnsa cīvium capita centum septendecim mīlia trecenta ūndēvīgintī.The citizens counted in the census numbered one hundred and seventeen thousand three hundred and nineteen. Liv. 3.24.11Cōnsulum magna domī bellīque eō annō glōria fuit, quod et forīs pācem peperēre, et domī etsī nōn concors, minus tamen quam aliās īnfesta cīvitās fuit.The 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.