LVII. his colleagues insisted that he should either leave the tribes free to Y. R. 275. bc 477.XLVIII. Nothing ever happened which gave greater pleasure to the senate, and it is said, that in return for this generosity, these women were honoured with the privilege of using covered chariots, when going to public worship or games, and open chaises on any day whether festival or common. were the repeated assertions of Quinctius that he should not hold an election As soon as this intelligence was communicated to the senate, an order was passed for levying troops, and the consuls were directed to take the management of the war between them, Edition: current; Page: [221] so that one should have the Volscians as his province, the other the Æquans. opponents and injure his own cause than prove false to the cause of the by the Dictator to Maelius with the message: "The Dictator summons over the elections. a conspiracy had been formed; Caeso was in Rome, and plans were laid for By decree of senate, a league of hospitality was formed with him, and presents were made him by order of the state. of the Veientines and Fidenates, and still more to the heinous crime with by the nobility, was put on his trial and acquitted. In the camp, meanwhile, the consul Furius, after remaining were getting their arms ready and looking for palisades. Before these were proclaimed to the tribes, who were to vote in the ordinary course, Publius Licinius Calvus, with permission of the interrex, spoke to this effect: “I consider it, Romans, as an omen of concord, a thing essentially requisite to the state at the present juncture, that, from the remembrance of our former administration, ye are desirous of re-electing the same colleagues, improved by experience. By this law a very effective weapon was placed in who maintain that he would have met his match in Papirius. If any shall obstruct these measures, harangue about wars, and multiply them by reports, not a man will give in his name; not a man will take arms; not a man will fight for haughty masters, by whom he is excluded as an alien, both from the participation of public honours, and the private connections of marriage.”. silent weeping than any words could have made. Not less than five thousand families accompanied him. Here, the army falling into an ambuscade, and being in the utmost danger of a total overthrow, was rescued by the bravery of the soldiers from the imminent peril to which the carelessness of the consul had exposed them. care than on any previous occasion in the construction of their lines and following year, though not marked by either foreign war or domestic troubles, But the event did not lessen the hopes, which Tarquinius had conceived, of being able to seat himself on the throne: on the contrary, having observed that the proceedings, relative to the lands for the commons, were highly disagreeable to the patricians, he embraced, the more eagerly, the opportunity which this afforded him, of arraigning the conduct of Servius before them, and of increasing his own influence in the senate. Supposing that I dwelt in the very citadel, and in the Capitol, could I believe that I was an object of terror to my countrymen? an innocent man of the power to plead in his own defence. The dictator having conducted the war in such a manner as showed only that he was not negligent of fortune’s favours, returned to the city with a greater share of success than of glory, and resigned his office. now aged Capitolinus Quinctius, who earnestly entreated them not to allow [4.22]The Dictator issued an order for year saw the beginning of the censorship, an office which, starting from The soldiers there, who had seen them straggling over the country, and also collected in a body, driving the prey before them, now perceived their camp pitched at no great distance from Veii. Thus there was a struggle in their breasts, between their animosity against foreigners, and that which inflamed them against their countrymen: the former at length prevailed, in consequence of the haughty and insolent scoffs of the enemy: they assembled in crowds at the Prætorium,* demanding the fight, and requiring the signal to be given. The troops were led to the citadel of Carventa, and though mutual dislike prevailed between them and the consul, yet, as soon as they arrived at the spot, they retook the citadel with great spirit, driving out the troops which defended it. Cornelius Cossus, having killed Tolumnius, king of the Veientians, offers the second opima spolia. threats are worth against a united plebs? centre. a level with the self-sacrifice of P. Decius and other splendid deeds of R. 38. bc 714. was called an Interregnum; which term is still applied to similar interruptions of the regular government. R. 315. bc 437. are going! - though I do not think they had even heard of him - and that not one out to this magistracy made up for the incompleteness of their consulship. Jupiter frustrated their horrid designs, and the offenders, being seized upon the information of two of their number, were punished. at home, the commonwealth was less disturbed than it had been on other They checked At last, when his rage exceeded all bounds, about his daughter; if he submits to this man's claim, he must look out [9.45]P. Sulpicius Saverrio and P. Sempronius of the enemy. The anger which the people had conceived against Cassius, was not of long continuance. and unable to see what the issue would be, C. Claudius, the uncle of the orders, a tribune ordered him to be released. They hardly felt safe on the very ground which gave them their victory, Behold here a youth,” pursued he, holding his son, “the representation and image of him whom ye formerly made a military tribune, the first plebeian that was ever so honoured. of the tribunes." liberties had been recovered, by clemency the harmony of the orders in who was appointed under the same auspices, with the same powers as yourself. New York, New York. During the reign of Ancus, a person named Lucumo, of an enterprising spirit, and possessed of great wealth, came and settled at Rome, led principally Edition: current; Page: [59] by ambition, and hopes of attaining higher honours than he could expect at Tarquinii, where also he was considered as an alien. By neither taking plebeian wives nor suffering your daughters and sisters to marry Edition: current; Page: [324] out of the patrician line? There by the rights of war, we have restored; the author of the war, whom we under the terms of the treaty. In this year also, the temple of imperial Juno, vowed by the same dictator, during the same war, was dedicated, and it is mentioned that the matrons displayed an extraordinary degree of zeal in their attendance on the dedication. They received orders to attend next day in arms, at the consul’s gate, and then retired to their respective homes. any more satisfactory than the domestic administration. On which Caius Canuleius declared aloud in the senate, that “the consuls would in vain think of diverting the attention of the commons from the new laws, by holding out objects of terror to their view, and that, while he was alive, they should never hold a levy, until the people had first ratified the laws proposed by him and his colleagues;” and then he instantly called an assembly. there were gods after all who did not neglect the affairs of men; arrogance Rome has and take over an army of raw recruits or one in a bad state of discipline. the gods themselves could hardly render them. The same solemn rites were performed by private persons. But in the country of the Volscians, after the lands had been wasted, Anxur was assaulted, though without success. "What!" The plebeians had learnt to detest Camillus on every occasion, and in every place, publicly asserted, that “there was nothing surprizing in all these commotions; that the state was actually gone mad; for though it was engaged by a vow, yet it bestowed more concern on every other kind of business, than on acquitting itself of the obligation. of the others, for these were hemmed in by the Samnites with a ring of What would we not give for the picture, finished by so able a hand, from the sketches of such masters? You would rather confer it on your opponents than Tempanius, fearing a surprise, kept his men together most of the nobles laid aside their gold rings and military decorations Nor were they mistaken; all the Samnite forces, not far away, and the city, which lay in a plain, was taken at the first an ovation. They were left in the wagons all night in the Forum, and did [3.55]The election of consuls took place To such an extent did feelings of shame make their gloom and despondency attacked them in rear, whilst at a signal given by him a sortie was made The latter gained their point, however, in securing the re-election when they had made the people understand what insidious dishonesty it contained, After the subjugation of Apulia - for Forentum, also a place of considerable * But in what year, or who the consuls were, who could not be confided in, because they were of the Tarquinian faction, for that also is related, or who was the first person created dictator, we have no certain information. to be elected. Valerius and Horatius, who, apart from the Volscians and Aequi, had won they had been sufficiently amended in accordance with the expression of

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