Ab urbe condita

In this year two additional tribes were formed —the Pomptine and the Publilian. The Games which Camillus had vowed when Dictator were celebrated.[*](There is probably some mistake here. Those mentioned on p. 311, Vol. I. as being vowed before the capture of Veii had been celebrated shortly before the Gaulish invasion (p. 326 ibid.). Livy probably wrote Servilius instead of Camillus, and the error may be due to a copyist. The vow which Servilius made is mentioned in chap. XI.) A measure dealing with improper canvassing was for the first time submitted to the people, after passing the senate, by C. Poetilius, tribune of the plebs.

It was intended to check the canvassing, mainly by rich plebeians, in the markets and promiscuous gatherings.

Another measure, by no means so welcome to the patricians, was brought forward the following year, the consuls being C. Marcius and Cnaeus Manlius. M. Duilius and L. Menenius, tribunes of the plebs, were the proposers of this measure, which fixed the rate of interest at 8 and 1/3 per cent.;