Impeachment of Appius Claudius.---L. Valerius and T. 2Emilius were consuls for the next year, which was a still :stormier one, owing, in the first place, to the struggle between the two orders over the Agrarian Law, and secondly to the ;prosecution of Appius Claudius.% Is L. _rN 11 1 Is ,"% r4.:He was impeached.1，by the.. , tribunes,川.。刀ueuius and Cn. Siccius，on 'the grouna of nis ，护V ,determined opposition to the Law, and alsthe cause of the occupiers of the public踩se he defendeds of he were a third consul. Never before had any one been brought to trial before the people whom the plebs so thoroughly detested, both ,on his own and his father's account. For hardly any one had -the patricians exerted themselves more than for him whom they .regarded as the champion of the senate and the vindicator of its .authority, the stout bulwark against disturbances of tribunes or plebs, and now saw exposed to the rage of the plebeians simply for having gone too far in the struggle. Appius Claudius himself, 。alone of all the patricians, looked upon the tribunes, the plebs, and his own trial as of no account. Neither the threats of the plebeians nor the entreaties of the senate could induce him--I will not say to change his attire and accost men as a suppliant, ;but even to soften and subdue to some extent his wonted asperity一f language when he had to make his defence before.R\1 . 7 . 7 hl the people. There was the same expression, the same defiantw r 7 .7 7 look，the same proud. tones ox speech, so that a. large， number of7 r . 7 r A 7 7 . 7 . w the plebeians were no less afraid of Appius on his trim than theyw 7 '7"7 7 7 7 w w had been when ne was consul. He only spoke fn his defence once, but in the same aggressive tone that he always。 adopted,w 11 1- 7 7 ,7 .1 7 .w w grid his firmness so dumafoundered.7 r，℃竿traqunes and the， plebs,w .* that they add ourned the矛se of tnexr， own acc.呼。，and then, allowed it to， drag， on.aowed io drag on.，.l here was nor a very long interval, however.七efore the date of tine adjourned trial arrived he was carried off by illness. The tribunes tried to prevent any funeral oration being pronounced over him, but the plebeians would not allow the obsequies of so great a man to be robbed of the They listened to the panegyric of the dead customary honours.as attentively as theyand vast crowds folio bad listened to the indictment of the livinz. --一万一二----一_一-------一-一一-一-一一-!·一0， wed nim to the tom a.