The Terentilian Law-Fresh Troubles. No sooner were order and quiet restored than the tribunes began to press upon the senators the necessity of redeeming the promise made by Publius Valerius;they urged Claudius to free his colleague's manes 13 from the guilt of deception by allowing the Law to be proceeded with. 'the consul refused to allow it until he had sectill the裂tthetion黔ion of a colleague.held, In the mont忠contest weDecember,豁 the utmost exertions on the Dart of the patricians.L. Ouinctius t;incinnatus, the tattier of Laeso，was elected consul. and at once took up his,gthce.1 The plebeians were dismayed at呼prospect . oz paving as consul a man incensed azainst them, and Dowenul .，~‘.‘._.I色 1n the warm support of the senate. in his own Dersonaf merits， and in his three children, not one of whom was Caeso's inferior in loftiness of min哆，吵ile they wet e his superiors in. exhibiting4 YYT4 prudence and moderation where necessary. When he entered on .us magistracy he continually cienverea harangues from the tr平unal, in which， he censured the senate as energetically as he put， do}'I I甲t于尸只Ds.。挤was,竺，sai吸through the aPathy of44 that orarn弓r， that. the tribunes ox, ," , .砂“Pd叩s, now， perpetu彭1y in oznce, acted as Icings in their speeches and accusations, as though., ,. " . ., "I '1 r -in , they were living, not. in the commonwealth ox .Rome, put m some wretched ill-regulated family. Courage， resolution 一-一一”一--一一一-一一一几一0一一----一一二---一一J-一----一Q一夕一一一一一一”，内， that mazes voutn custmzuxsnea at nome and in the oatue-he招_ has peen expenea and oanisnea zrom.Kome with his son t;aeso. Loquacious agitators, sowers of discord, made tribunes for the second and third time in succession, were living by means of infamous practices in regal licentiousness. “slid that fellow," he asked,“Aulus Verginius, because he did not happen to be in the Capitol, deserve less punishment than Appius Herdonius? Considerably more, by Jove, if any choose to form a true estimate of the matter, Herdonius，if he did nothing else. avowed nimsen an enemy and in. a measure summoned you to take up arms; this man, by denying the existence of a war, deprived you of your arms, and exposed you defenceless to the mercy of your slaves and exiles. And did you-without disrespect to C. Claudius and the dead P. Valerius，工would ask一 did you advance against the Capitol before you cleared these enemies out of the Forum?It is an outrage on gods and men, that when there were enemies in the Citadel, in the Capitol, and rJ.尹 the leader of the slaves and exiles, after profaning everythin had taken up his quarters in the very shrine of Jupiter O Maximus. it should be at Tusculum。not at Rome, that arms were 1尹 I first taken up. It was doubtful whether the Citadel of Rome would be delivered by the Tusculan general, L. Mamilius, or by the consuls, I'. valerius and C. Claudius. We, who had not allowed the Latins to arm, even to defend themselves against invasion, would have been taken and destroyed, had not these very Latins taken up arms unbidden. This, tribunes, is what you call protecting the -olebs. exnosinz it to be hel-Dlessly butchered 」勺一叼.丫。声，，‘J.二，。“ Dv me enemv王 ix me meanest member or your oraer, wnica 心口..以I you have as it were severed from the rest of the people and made into a province, a State of your own--if such I say, were to report to you that his house was beset by slaves, you would, I presume, think that you ought to render him assistance; was not Tupiter Optimus Maximus。when shut in by armed 场口J.J.r口 TheD ecemvir ate 163 slaves and exiles, worthy to receive any human aid?Do these fellows demand that their persons shall be sacred and inviolable, when the very gods themselves are neither sacred nor inviolable in. their eyes?But, steeped as you are in crimes against gods and men, you give out that you will carry your Law this year. Then, most assuredly, if you do car ry it, the day when I was made consul will. be a far worse day for the State than that on which P. Valerius perished. Now I give you notice, Quirites, the first thing that any colleague and myself intend to do is to h the legions against the Volscians and Nqui. By some fatality, we find the gods more propitious when we are than when we are at peace. It is better to infer from what has occurred in the past than to learn by actual experience