of the maltreatment they had」 received,。 and by9 Y r T 11 9 . i1 . 1. 1，their angryY replies snowed beforehand what their verdict WOUIG De. XIII Over and above the general exasp 。ration,one charge in particular weighed heavily against him.M.煦lsci?s，Fi o, M. Volscius Ficto r who had some years previously been -tribune of the plebs, had come forward to give evidence that not long after the epidemic hadvisitedtheCity，hehadmetsomevaunt men strolling inhad visited the Citv, he had met thebu burs.the八quarre1Dro长e out anct nquarrel bro1s elcter brother, stfli weakfromillness, was knocked down lay a blowweak fist, and carried home in a critical condition, and afterwards died, hebelieved，inconsequence of the blow.He had not beenhe believed, allowedby the consuls, during the years that had elapsed, to obtain legal redress for the outrage, whilstolscius was telling this story in a loud tone of voice, so much excitement was created that Caeso was very near losing his life at the hands of the people. "V'"erginius ordered him to be arrested and taken to prison. The patricians met violence by violence. T. Quinctius called out that when the daof trial has been fixed‘ for any one indicted on a capital charge and is near at h. 比personal liberty ought not to be interfered with before case1s heard and sentence given. The tribune replied he was not going to inflict punishment upon a man not found guilty;., . . 11 .1，but he should keep him in prison till the.r r , " , r_day of tine只ial, that tine .n.oman people might rye in a position to ，，，一;-I-。一二---1.~T_ ,..~1,.....，_‘__一“一，~1:r.. rrL‘_yL._J_ --_' I Fu111b11. V11C W11V llibb l.UKC11 d MU11 5 111C. 1110 v l.i1CF tribunes were appealed to。and thev saved their ogative by acom- 人占护 J promise; to they forbade him to be cas prison, and an pounced ass their decision that the accu should court，andifhe甄iledt。d。fl7court, and if he failed to do so he should forfeit a sum to the people. The question was what sum would to fix?The matter was referred to the senate, the accused was detained in the Assembly whilst the senators were deliberating. They decided that he should give sureties, and each surety was bound in 3ooo“ases." It was left to the tribunes to decide how many should be given;they fixed the number at ten. The prosecutor released the accused on that bail. Caeso was the first who gave securities on a state trial. After leaving the Forum, he went the following night into exile amongst the Tuscans. When the day for the trial came, it was pleaded in defence of his non-appearance that he had changed his domicile by go毗into exile. Verginius, nevertheless, went on with the 1Droceedings。but his colleaLyues. to whomanaPpe 1 an appea was made, dismissed the Assembly. The二oney was unmercifully extorted from the father, who had to sell all his property and live for some time like a banished man in an out-of-the-way but on the other side of the Tiber.