power.xXXIV. Whilst highest and lowest alike were enjoying theirprompt and impartial administration of justice, as thoughdelivered by an oracle, they were at the same time devotingtheir attention to the framing oaf the laws. These eagerlylooked for laws were at length inscribed on ten tables whichwere exhibited in an Assembly specially convened for thepurpose. . After a prayer that their work might bring welfareand happmess to the State, to them and to their children, thedecemvirs bade them go and read the laws which were exhibited. " As far as the wisdom and foresight of ten men admittedhad established equal laws for all, for highest and lowest貂 there was, however，二ore weight in the intelligence and advice of many men. They should turn over each separate item in their minds, discuss them. in convers ations with each other, and brim forward for public debate what appeared to、them super- 加ous or detective inn each enactment。一.1,ne suture laws士or Rome should be such as would appear to have been. no less unanimously proposed by the people themselves than ratified by them on the proposal of others."YY47 } Y 7 1. 1 7 I，_。。，，， when it appeared that they naa been sumcientiy amended in accordance with the expressic i of public opinion on each head, the Laws of the Ten Tables rere passed by the Assembly ,of Centuries. Even in the mass of legislation to-day, where laws are, piled one upon another in a confused heap, theyP r rti ti ,-州1 form the source ox all puolic and private jurisprudence. After their, ratification, the ren Was generally made that two tables were still wanting; if th ey were added, the body, as it might be called, of Roman law would be complete..I 0，今呼day forthelecti 主·or饥e e王ecnons appor coached, this impression, createa a aesire to appoint decemvirs for a second year. "The plebeians had learnt to detest the name of“consul,”as much as that of “king," and now as the decemvirs allowed an appeal from 0ne 1603 *G of their body to another, they no longer required the aid of their tribunes.