The senate was in the Capitol. Thither the tribunes toroceeded，accompanied by the -Plebeians in a Rreat state of consternation. a,ney loudly appeaiec. for ne护，nrst to the consuls, then to the senators, but they did not shake the determination of the consul, until the tribunes had promised that they would bow to the authority of the senate. The consuls laid before the senate the demands of the plebs and their tribunes, and decrees were passed that the tribunes should not bring forward their Law during the year, nor should the consuls take the army out of the City. The senate also judged it to be against the interests of the State that a magistrate's tenure of office should be prolonged, or that the tribunes should be re-elected. The consuls yielded to the authority of the senate, but the tribunes, against the protests of the consuls, were re-elected. On this、the senate also，to avoid tage to the ralebs.reaDDointed Lucius Quinctiu consul. v几r占占 Nothing during the whole year rou sed the indign of the consul more than this proceeding of theirs.“Can I," he exclaimed,“be surprised, Conscript Fathers, if your authority has little weight with the plebs?You yourselves are w it. Because, forsooth, they have disregarded the s decree forbidding a magistrate's continuance in office，wou yourselves wisn it to De aisregaraea, tnat you may nor ne oenma .1气尹 r护了 the populace in headstrong thoughtlessness, as though to possessmore power in the State was to show more levity and lawlessness. It is undoubtedly a more idle and foolish thing to do away with one's own resolutions and decrees than with those of others. Imitate, Conscript Fathers, the inconsiderate multitude;sin after the example of others, you who ought to be an example to others，rather than that others should 。。act rightly， after-,17 your example, as long a as I do not如itate the triDunes or allown】. yself to be returned as consul imp defiance of the resolution of the senate. To C. Claudius，I earnestly aDDeal. that will restrain the Roman. people from this lawlessness. As to myself, rest assured that工will accept your action in the firm belief that you have not stood in the way of my advancement to honour, bu七tha七Jhave gathered greater glory by rejecting it, and nave removed tine odium. which my continuance in otrice would have provoked.' Thereupo n the two consuls issued a joint edict that no one should mak e L. Quinctius consul;if any one attempted it, they would not allow the vote.