Sed cum aliquotiens senatus pro militari disciplina severe excubuerit, nescio an tum praecipue cum milites qui Regium iniusto bello occupaverant, mortuoque duce Vibellio M. Caesium scribam eius sua sponte imperatorem delegerant, carcere inclusit, ac M. Furio Flacco tribuno plebis denuntiante ne in cives Romanos adversus morem maiorum animadverteret, nihilo minus propositum exsecutus est.
More than once has the senate shown itself strict and vigilant on behalf of military discipline, but perhaps most notably when it threw into gaol the soldiers who in wrongful warfare had seized Regium under the leadership of Vibellius and of their own accord chosen his secretary M. Caesius as their leader after his death. When Tribune of the Plebs M. Furius Flaccus pronounced that punishment should not be executed upon Roman citizens against ancestral custom, it none the less carried out its intention.
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