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bore it with great anger that even when they were in danger for their own sakes, they did not even then desist from what belonged to others. And when these things were announced to them, they were neither moved any more nor did the men desist from sedition because of the dangers. But the women, both the wife of Coriolanus, Volumnia, and his mother, Veturia, taking with them the other most distinguished women, came to the camp to him, bringing his children with them. And the others wept in silence, but Veturia said, "We have not deserted, my child, but our country has sent us to you, as a mother and a wife and children, if you obey, but if not, as booty. And if you are still angry even now, kill us first. Be reconciled and no longer be angry 2.135 with your citizens, your friends, your temples, your tombs, nor besiege your fatherland, in which you were born and raised and became the great name of Coriolanus. Do not send me away without success, lest you also see me dead by my own hand." At these words she wept aloud, and showing her breasts and touching her belly, she said, "This bore you, child, these nursed you." She said these things, and his wife and children and the other women lamented with her, so as to move him also to grief. And having with difficulty recovered, he embraced his mother, and at the same time kissing her, said, "See, mother, I obey you; for you conquer me. And let them all have this thanks to you; for I cannot bear even to see those who, having received such great benefits from me, have given me such a return, nor will I come into the city; but you, instead of me, have the fatherland, because you wished this, and I will depart." Having said these things, he departed; and he did not even accept his return, but withdrawing to the Volsci, he grew old there and passed away. But the tribunes demanded that land acquired from the enemy by the Romans be distributed to the multitude; for which reason they suffered many evils both from one another and from the enemy. For the powerful, being unable to hold them in check otherwise, deliberately stirred up wars out of wars, so that being occupied with them they might not meddle with anything concerning the land. But in time, some, suspecting what was being done, did not allow both the consuls or generals to be appointed by the powerful, but wished themselves also to choose the other from the patricians. And when they had accomplished this, they chose 2.136 Spurius Furius, and campaigning with him, they eagerly accomplished all that they set out to do. But those who had gone out with his colleague Fabius Caeso were not only not strengthened, but even abandoning their camp, came to the city and caused a disturbance, until the Tyrrhenians, learning of this, attacked them. And then, however, they did not go out of the city before some of the tribunes came to an agreement with the powerful. And they fought eagerly, and destroyed many of the enemy, and many of them also died; and one of the consuls, Malius, also fell. And the crowd chose Malius as general for the third time. And again war was brought upon them by the Tyrrhenians; and while the Romans were disheartened and at a loss as to how they should stand against their enemies, the Fabii came to their aid. For being three hundred and six, when they saw them disheartened and neither taking any useful counsel nor having given up all hope, they undertook the war against the Tyrrhenians on their own, being eager to fight both with their bodies and with their money. And having seized a certain opportune place, they fortified it, from which they sallied forth and carried off all the enemy's property, while the Tyrrhenians did not even dare to come to grips with them, and if they ever did engage, they were greatly worsted. And the Tyrrhenians, taking allies, lay in ambush in a wooded place, and surrounding the Fabii as they came upon them off their guard from having conquered everything, they killed them all. And their family would have been completely wiped out, if one had not been left at home on account of his youth, from whom they afterwards flourished again. 2.137 And when the Fabii were thus destroyed, the Romans suffered greatly at the hands of the Tyrrhenians. Then, on the one hand, truces with the enemy

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