[11,50] Ἀποψηφισαμένης δὲ τῆς βουλῆς τὸν θρίαμβον ἀγανακτοῦντες οἱ περὶ τὸν Οὐαλέριον καὶ δεινὴν ὕβριν ὑπολαμβάνοντες ὑβρίζεσθαι συνεκάλεσαν εἰς ἐκκλησίαν τὸ πλῆθος· καὶ πολλὰ τῆς βουλῆς κατηγορήσαντες, συναγορευσάντων αὐτοῖς τῶν δημάρχων καὶ νόμον εἰσηγησαμένων, παρὰ τοῦ δήμου λαμβάνουσι τὴν καταγωγὴν τοῦ θριάμβου, πρῶτοι Ῥωμαίων ἁπάντων τοῦτο εἰσηγησάμενοι τὸ ἔθος. ἐκ δὲ τούτου πάλιν εἰς ἐγκλήματα καὶ διαφορὰς οἱ δημοτικοὶ καθίσταντο πρὸς τοὺς πατρικίους· παρώξυνον δ´ αὐτοὺς οἱ δήμαρχοι καθ´ ἡμέραν ἐκκλησιάζοντες καὶ πολλὰ κατὰ τῆς βουλῆς λέγοντες. ἦν δ´ ἡ μάλιστα ἐρεθίζουσα τοὺς πολλοὺς ὑπόληψις, ἣν ἐκεῖνοι παρεσκεύασαν ἰσχυρὰν γενέσθαι, φήμαις τ´ ἀδεσπότοις καὶ εἰκασμοῖς αὐξηθεῖσα οὐκ ὀλίγοις, ὡς καταλυσόντων τῶν πατρικίων τοὺς νόμους, οὓς ἐκύρωσαν οἱ περὶ Οὐαλέριον ὕπατοι· δόξα τ´ ἰσχυρὰ καὶ οὐ πολὺ ἀπέχουσα τοῦ πίστις εἶναι τοὺς πολλοὺς κατεῖχε. καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐπὶ τούτων πραχθέντα τῶν ὑπάτων ταῦτ´ ἦν.

[11,50] The senate having rejected their request for a triumph, Valerius and his colleague were indignant, and feeling that they had been grievously affronted, they called the multitude to an assembly; and after they had uttered many invectives against the senate and the tribunes had espoused their cause and introduced a law for the purpose, they obtained from the people the privilege of celebrating a triumph, being the first of all the Romans to introduce this custom.This gave occasion to fresh accusations and quarrels (p165) on the part of the plebeians against the patricians; they were egged on by the tribunes, who called assemblies every day and uttered many invectives against the senate. But the thing which exasperated the masses most was the suspicion, which the tribunes had contrived to strengthen and was increased by unavowed reports and not a few conjectures, that the patricians were going to abolish the laws which had been enacted by Valerius and his colleague; and a strong opinion to this effect, which was little less than a conviction, possessed the minds of the masses. These were the events of that consulship.