Setting out, accordingly, with five lieutenant-generals, he compelled such as he found in the country to take the military oath, to arm, and follow him.

Having by this tumultuary kind of levy armed about two thousand men, while all were ignorant of his destination, he came to Setia.
There the leaders of the conspiracy were instantly apprehended; on which, the remainder fled from the city; but parties were sent through the country to search them out.

The services of the two who made the discovery, and of one free person employed, were highly meritorious.
The senate ordered a present to the latter of a hundred thousand _asses_;[1] to the slaves, twenty-five thousand _asses_[2] each, and their freedom.

The price was paid to their owners out of the treasury.
Not long after, intelligence was received, that other slaves, belonging to the remains of the conspiracy, had formed a design of seizing Praeneste.

The praetor, Lucius Cornelius, went thither, and inflicted punishment on near five hundred persons concerned in that wicked scheme.