On a sudden the commonalty rose one and all, and encouraging each other, they left the city, and withdrew to the hill not called Sacred, near the river Anio, but without committing any violence, or other act of sedition. Only as they went along, they loudly complained, that it was now a great while since the rich had driven them from their habitations; that Italy would anywhere supply them with air and water and a place of burial; and that Rome, if they stayed in it, would afford them no other privilege, unless it were to bleed and die for their wealthy oppressors.
—Plutarch, "Coriolanus."
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