These two Tribunes threatened to prosecute the Consuls if they did not proceed quickly to their provinces, carried a bill that the Senate should appoint an investigator to free any Statelliates still in slavery after the Kalends of Sextilis (Liv. 42.21.4-5 and 8), and forced the oppressor of the Statelliates to come to Rome for trial (42.22.2-4 and 7-8). (Broughton MRR I)