These were the most
memorable actions of his sixth tribuneship.
After these things, Licinius Stolo raised a great sedition in the
city, and brought the people to dissension with the senate,
contending, that of two consuls one should be chosen out of the
commons, and not both out of the patricians. Tribunes of the
people were chosen, but the election of consuls was interrupted
and prevented by the people. And as this absence of any supreme
magistrate was leading to yet further confusion, Camillus was the
fourth time created dictator by the senate, sorely against the
people's will, and not altogether in accordance with his own; he
had little desire for a conflict with men whose past services
entitles them to tell him that he had achieved far greater actions
in war along with them than in politics with the patricians, who,
indeed, had only put him forward now out of envy; that, if
successful, he might crush the people, or, failing, be crushed
himself. However, to provide as good a remedy as he could for the
present, knowing the day on which the tribunes of the people
intended to prefer the law, he appointed it by proclamation for a
general muster, and called the people from the forum into the
Campus, threatening to set heavy fines upon such as should not
obey.
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