But after r Lotice had been given that the election of decemvirs would bta ，held on the third market day,x? such eagerness to be anion gst those elected displayed， itself, that even the foremost men 石fthestatebe只ananindividualcanvassf the State began an. as humble suitors far an office which they had previously with ashumblesuitors all their might opposed, se鲍g it at the. hand砂气thatY‘very7 " t plebs with which they had hitherto peen an connect. 1 thank they feared that迁they did not fill hosts of such great authnritr zney woula tae open to men who were not wormy or them. Appius Claudius was keenly alive to the chance that he rniht not oe re-elected,1n spite or n1s age ana the honours he had enjoyed.You could hardly tell whether to consider huh as a decemvir or a candidate. Sometimes he was more like one whosoughtofficethanonew11o actually held itwho sought office than one w;he abused the nobility, and extolled all the candidateswhoOhadneither birth par personal weight to recommend them;he used to bustle about the Forum surrounded by ex-tribunes of the Duellius and Scilius stamp and through them made overtures to the plebeians, until even. his colleagues, who till then had been wholly devoted to him, began to watchhim，wondering what he meant.t，hey were convinceda that there1 was no sincerityabout it, it was certain that so haughty a man would not exhibit such affability for nothing。，They regarded this demeaning of nll丁ISel工anQn0Dn0D勺Ing.WltnDr1VatelnQly1QUa1Sasn.xmselrtn. tarivatenaonobamy w不neaction Ola执anwnowasnotSO长eentoreslgnomce aso resign oax a man who was not so ,peentoQIscovera some way of prolonging it. Not venturing to thwart his oohs openly, they tried to moderate his violence by humouring h恤. Ashewasthevoungestmemberof their body, they unaninAs he was the vounest 户，，吃.，.~广·，。‘rY，‘， conrerrea on nom r..o,e otnce o1Pres1arng over zne electionspres By this ar tifice they hoped to prevent him from getting himself elected ;a thing which no one except the tribunes of the plebs had ever done, setting thereby the worst of precedents. However, he gave out that, if all went well, he should hold the elections, and he seized upon what should have been an impediment as a good opportunity for effecting his purpose. By forming a coalition he secured the rejection of the two Quinctii一Capitolinus ,and Cincinnatus一his own uncle, C. Caudius, one of the firmest supporters of the nobility, and other citizens of the same rank. He procured the election of men who were very far from being their equals either socially or nolitically, himself amongst the first, a step which respectable men disapproved ot, all the.more because no one had supposed that he would leave the audacity to take it. With hire were elected M. Cornelius Maluginensis, M. Sergius, L. Minucius， n_ *Fabius Vibulanus, V. .eoetinus，"1 '. Antonius皿erenda. K. Duillius, 5p. UPPIus uornicen, and皿anllus长abuleius.