riches of a land in the hands of the few, the forfeitures are
easy, and amount to vast advantage; but where the people have
equal shares, the confiscation of many comes to little, and is
not only dangerous but fruitless.

The Romans, in one of their defeats of the Volsci, found
among the captives certain Tusculans, who, upon examination,
confessed that the arms they bore were by command of their State;
whereupon information being given to the Senate by the general
Camillus, he was forthwith commanded to march against Tusculum
which doing accordingly, he found the Tusculan fields full of
husbandmen, that stirred not otherwise from the plough than to
furnish his army with all kinds of accommodations and victuals.
Drawing near to the city, he saw the gates wide open, the
magistrates coming out in their gowns to salute and bid him
welcome; entering, the shops were all at work, and open, the
streets sounded with the noise of schoolboys at their books;
there was no face of war. Whereupon Camillus, causing the Senate
to assemble, told them, that though the art was understood, yet
had they at length found out the true arms whereby the Romans
were most undoubtedly to be conquered, for which cause he would
not anticipate the Senate, to which he desired them forthwith to
send, which they did accordingly; and their dictator with the
rest of their ambassadors being found by the Roman senators as
they went into the house standing sadly at the door were sent for
in as friends, and not as enemies; where the dictator having
said, "If we have offended, the fault was not so great as is our
penitence and your virtue," the Senate gave them peace forthwith,
and soon after made the Tusculans citizens of Rome.