But Coriola'nus[1] incurred their resentment, by insisting that the corn should not be distributed till the grievances of the senate were removed.

For this, the tribunes summoned him to a trial before the people.
[Illustration: Banishment of Coriola'nus.] 5.

When the appointed day was come, all persons were filled with the greatest expectations, and a vast concourse from the adjacent country assembled and filled the forum.

Coriola'nus presented himself before the people, with a degree of intrepidity that merited better fortune.
His graceful person, his persuasive eloquence, and the cries of those whom he had saved from the enemy, inclined the auditors to relent.

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But, being unable to answer what was alleged against him to the satisfaction of the people, and utterly confounded with a new charge, of having embezzled the plunder of _Antium_, the tribunes immediately took the votes, and Coriola'nus was condemned to perpetual exile.
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