[Frag.  XXV]

[Sidenote:  B.C. 384 (a.u. 370)] 1. ¶ The populace passed sentence against Capitolinus, his house was razed to the ground, his money confiscated, and his name and even likeness, if such anywhere existed, were erased and destroyed.  At the present day, too, all these punishments, except the razing to the ground, are visited upon those who conspire against the commonwealth.  They gave judgment also that no patrician should dwell upon the height because Capitolinus happened to have had his house there.  And his kinsmen among the Manlii prohibited any one of their number from being named Marcus, since that appellation had been his.

Capitolinus at any rate underwent a great reversal, both in his character and in his fortune.  Having made a specialty of warfare he did not understand how to remain at peace; the Capitol he had once saved he occupied for the purpose of establishing a tyranny; although a patrician he became the prey of a house-servant; and whereas he was deemed a warrior, he was arrested after the manner of a slave and hurled down the very rock from which he had repulsed the Gauls.  (Valesius, p.582.  Cp.  Zonaras, 7, 24.)

2. ¶ Capitolinus was thrown headlong down the rock by the Romans.  So true it is that nothing in the affairs of men,—­generally speaking,—­remains at it was; and success, in particular, leads many people on into catastrophes equally serious.  It raises their hopes, makes them continually strive after like or greater results and, if they fail, casts them into just the opposite condition. (Mai, p. 155.  Cp.  Zonaras, 7, 24.)

3.  This Marcus Manlius, who was once termed also Capitolinus, and fell through seeking the tyranny, when about to be put to death by vote of all the jurors was saved by their looking just then at the Capitol, where he himself had performed famous deeds of valor,—­until the one who spoke against him, perceiving the cause, transferred the assembly to another court-house from which the Capitol could not be seen at all and so a remembrance spring up of his trophies.  Then they kill him.  But on the other hand, even so, through the whole period the populace of Rome wore black, recompensing the graces of his valor and the inimitable manner of his distinguished behavior. (Tzetzes, Hist. 3, 843-855.  Cp.  Zonaras, 7, 24.)

[Frag.  XXVI]

[Sidenote:  B.C. 381 (a.u. 373)] 1. ¶ Camillus made a campaign against the Tusculans, but thanks to the astonishing attitude that they adopted they suffered no harm.  For just as if they themselves were guilty of no offence and the Romans entertained no anger toward them, but were either coming to them as friends to friends or else marching through their territory against some other tribes, they changed none of their accustomed habits and were not in the least disturbed:  instead, all without exception remaining in their places, at their occupations and at their other work just as in time of peace, received the army within their borders, gave them hospitable gifts, and in other ways honored them like friends.  Consequently the Romans so far from doing them harm enrolled them subsequently among the citizens. (Valesius, p.582.)