§2.33.1agi deinde de concordia coeptum concessumque in condiciones, ut plebi sui magistratus essent sacrosancti, quibus auxilii latio adversus consules esset, neve cui patrum capere eum magistratum liceret.
Then negotiations for harmony began, and terms were agreed upon: that the plebs should have their own sacrosanct magistrates, who should have the right of rendering aid against the consuls, and that no patrician should be permitted to hold that magistracy.
§2.33.2ita tribuni plebei creati duo, C. Licinius et L. Albinus.
Thus two tribunes of the plebs were elected, Gaius Licinius and Lucius Albinus.
hi tres collegas sibi creaverunt; in his Sicinium fuisse constat, seditionis auctorem; de duobus, qui fuerint, minus convenit:
These chose three colleagues for themselves; among these it is certain that Sicinius, the leader of the sedition, was one, but as to who the other two were, there is less agreement.
§2.33.3sunt, qui duos tantum in Sacro monte creatos tribunos esse dicant ibique sacratam legem latam.
There are some who say that only two tribunes were elected on the Sacred Mount, and that the sacred law was carried there.
per secessionem plebis Sp. Cassius et Postumus Cominius consulatum inierant.
During the secession of the plebs, Spurius Cassius and Postumus Cominius had entered upon their consulship.
§2.33.4his consulibus cum Latinis populis ictum foedus.
Under these consuls, a treaty was concluded with the Latin peoples.
ad id feriendum consul alter Romae mansit; alter ad Volscum bellum missus Antiates Volscos fundit fugatque, conpulsos in oppidum Longulam persecutus moenibus potitur.
To ratify this, one of the consuls remained in Rome; the other, sent to the Volscian war, routed and put to flight the Volscians of Antium, and having pursued them when driven into the town of Longula, captured its walls.
§2.33.5inde protinus Poluscam, item Volscorum, cepit; tum magna vi adortus est Coriolos.
From there, he immediately captured Polusca, also a town of the Volscians; then with great force he attacked Corioli.
erat tum in castris inter primores iuvenum Cn. Marcius, adulescens et consilio et manu promptus, cui cognomen postea Coriolano fuit.
There was at that time in the camp, among the foremost of the young men, Gnaeus Marcius, a youth active in both counsel and action, who was later surnamed Coriolanus.
§2.33.6cum subito exercitum Romanum Coriolos obsidentem atque in oppidanos, quos intus clausos habebat, intentum sine ullo metu extrinsecus inminentis belli Volscae legiones profectae ab Antio invasissent, eodemque tempore ex oppido erupissent hostes, forte in statione Marcius fuit.
When suddenly, while the Roman army was besieging Corioli and intent upon the townspeople whom they kept shut up inside, without any fear of war threatening from without, Volscian legions set out from Antium and attacked them, and at the same time the enemy sallied forth from the town, Marcius happened to be on guard.
§2.33.7is cum delecta militum manu non modo impetum erumpentium retudit, sed per patentem portam ferox inrupit in proxima urbis caedeque facta ignem temere arreptum inminentibus muro aedificiis iniecit.
He, with a chosen band of soldiers, not only repulsed the charge of those who sallied forth, but fiercely burst through the open gate into the nearest parts of the city, and having wrought a slaughter, threw fire, which he had hastily snatched up, onto the buildings overhanging the wall.
§2.33.8clamor inde oppidanorum mixtus muliebri puerilique ploratu ad terrorem, ut solet, primum orto et Romanis auxit animum et turbavit Volscos, utpote capta urbe, cui ad ferendam opem venerant.
Thence the clamor of the townspeople, mingled with the wailing of women and children, arising first to inspire terror, as is usual, both increased the courage of the Romans and threw the Volscians into confusion, inasmuch as the city, to whose assistance they had come, was captured.
§2.33.9ita fusi Volsci Antiates, Corioli oppidum captum; tantumque sua laude obstitit famae consulis Marcius, ut, nisi foedus cum Latinis in columna aenea insculptum monumento esset, ab Sp. Cassio uno, quia collega afuerat, ictum, Postumum Cominium bellum gessisse cum Volscis memoria cessisset.
Thus the Volscians of Antium were routed, p.105 and the town of Corioli was captured; and Marcius so far eclipsed the fame of the consul by his own glory that, if the treaty with the Latins had not been engraved on a bronze column as a monument, showing that it had been struck by Spurius Cassius alone because his colleague was absent, the memory that Postumus Cominius had waged war against the Volscians would have been lost.
§2.33.10eodem anno Agrippa Menenius moritur, vir omni vita pariter patribus ac plebi carus, post secessionem carior plebi factus.
In the same year died Agrippa Menenius, a man dear throughout his whole life equally to the patricians and the plebs, and rendered still dearer to the plebs after the secession.
§2.33.11huic interpreti arbitroque concordiae civium, legato patrum ad plebem, reductori plebis Romanae in urbem sumptus funeri defuit; extulit eum plebs sextantibus conlatis in capita.
For this interpreter and arbiter of the citizens' harmony, the envoy of the patricians to the plebs, the restorer of the Roman plebs to the city, the money for a funeral was lacking; the plebs buried him by contributing a sextans per head.