The Treason of S, Crzssis .一一For the newt year Sp. Cassius and Proculus erginius were elected consuls. A treaty was concluded with theHernici two-th irds of their territory was taken from them.. Of this Cassias intended to give half ‘tothe satins and half to theRomanplebs. He contemplated 16o3 珍擞., he alleged, though?led by private individuals. This alarmedins, the actual occupiers, as endangeringproperty. On public grounds, too, theyconsidered that by this largess the consulower dangerous to liberty. Then for the1 Law was proposed, and never, from thatiin our own memory, has one been mooted:mendous cornmotions. The other consul resisted posed grant. 4n this he was supported by the senate, whils :the plebs was far from unanimous in its favour. They were beginning to look askance at a boon so cheap as to be shared between citizens and allies and they often heard the consul Verginius in his public speeche predicting that his colleague's gift was fraught with mischief, the land in question would bring slavery on those who took it the way was being prepared for a throne. Why were the allies, he asked, and. the Latin league included? What necessitv was there for a third Dart of the territory of the Hernici. so 1ateiv our toes. oeznLy restored to them, unless it was that these nations might have Cassius as their leader in place of Coriolanus? The opponent of the Agrarian Law began to be popular. Then both consuls tried who could go furthest in hurnou the ple妙·，，咋rginius sai只that he would consent to the assignmen or me iands provided they ;provided they were assigned to none but Roman citizens. Cassius had courted popularity amongst the allies by including them in the distribution and had thereby sunk in the estimation of his fellow-citizens. To recover their favour he gave orders for the money which had been received for the corn from Sicily to be refunded to the people. This offer the plebeians treated with scorn as nothing else than. the price of a throne. Owing to their innate suspicion that he was aiming at monarchy, his gifts were rejected as completely as if they had abundance of every it is generally asserted that immediately upo Ponnlsvac盯ing his vacati office he was condemned and put to death. Some assert that was the author of his punishment. that he tried at home. and after scourging him put him to death and devoted his private property to Ceres. From the proceeds a statue of her was made w an inscription, “Given from the Cassian family." I find xn some authors a much more probable account. viz.。that he waS arraigned by the d.尹产 quaestors caeso .v ax f滋户只n“。a ius and L. Valerius before the people and convicted of trey.qnn .and house ordered to be It stood on the open space in front of the temple of Tellus. any case, whether the trial was a publicora private one condemnation took place ire and Q. I`abius.