Summa iustitia in quattuor quoque tribunis plebis eodem tempore conspecta est: nam cum L. Atratino, sub quo duce aciem nostram apud Verruginem a Volscis inclinatam cum ceteris equitibus correxerant, diem ad populum L. Hortensius collega eorum dixisset, pro rostris iuraverunt in squalore se esse quoad imperator ipsorum reus esset futuros: non sustinuerunt enim egregii iuvenes, cuius armati periculum vulneribus et sanguine suo defenderant, eius togati ultimum discrimen potestatis insignia retinentes intueri.
Justice at its highest was seen also in four Tribunes of the Plebs at the same time. L. Atratinus, under whose command at Verrugo they, along with the rest of the horse, had restored our line of battle when it was driven back by the Volsci, was summoned to trial before the people by their colleague L. Hortensius. The four took an oath standing on the rostra that so long as their commander was under prosecution they would wear mourning. For these excellent young men could not bear that he whose danger under arms they had defended with their wounds and blood should face ultimate peril in his gown before their eyes while they still wore the emblems of power.
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