In the same year in which the orders adjusted their quarrel, the Romans ratified a perpetual league with the Latins. Peace had already been restored three years before, and had brought back a definite federal relation between the two states: but the league of Sp. Cassius did not merely confirm and explain this; it was a new treaty, substituting an acknowledgement of complete equality for the subjection introduced by Tarquinius, or else for the easy dependence to which Latium had submitted under Servius. We are not told which of these was the relation renewed at the peace; but the latter supposition is the more probable: though it is certainly possible that the Latins, through a timidity which the scantiness of our information does not permit us to explain, and because they were not so far heated by passion as to prefer an alliance with the Volscians, may have returned to their former vassalage; and yet two or three years after have been able to extort a recognition of their absolute equality, and even cessions of land and subjects, from the distress of the government, as the price of their goodwill against the insurgents. Dionysius is aware that these sacrifices were connected with the agreement between the senate and the Latins to oppose the rebels: he considers them as a reward bestowed on the Latins for their good spirit; which is the view Roman pride would take of them, and is assuredly the sole reason why the date of the league was placed after the peace of the Sacred Mount.