anent exis七ed amongst them not to hold any elections, keep their Dower, now thev had once obtained it, by making J.盖r-， the decemvirate perpetual. XXXVIL The plebeians now began to study the faces of the pb.tricians, to catch haply some gleam of liberty from the men from whom. they had dreaded slavery- and through that dread had brought the commonwealth into its present condition. The leaders of the senate hated the decemvirs, and hated the plebs;， they.7 } .1州not approve of't , 11吵atJ was11 .1，肿ng on, but theyw tRouzilt that the weaeians deservea all that Lneir got, ana relused 飞目产J‘.声‘.声了 to help men who by rushing too eagerly after liberty had fallen slavery. They even increased the wrongs they suffered, through their disgust and impatience at the present conditions they might begin to long for the former state of things and the two consuls Ls of old. was no reason why the decemvirate should be any longer considered necessary. ‘. were wondering how soon n叫ce would be given of the electron of consuls; the sole anxiety of the plebeians was as to the method by which they could re-establish that bulwark of their liberties, the power of the tribunes which was now suspended.. Me ant 王刀以e nothing was said about any elections.At first the decemvirs had bid for popularity by appearing before the' plebs, surrounded by ex-tribunes, but now they were accompanied by an escort of young patricians, who crowded round the tribunals, maltreated the plebeians and andered their property, and being the stronger, succeeded 现ge ing whatever也ey had TheD ecemvirate y taken a fancy to: "Whey did not stop short of personal violence,sonic were scourged, others beheaded, and that this brutalitysight not be gratuitous, the punishment of the owner wasfollowed by a grant of his effects. Corrupted by such bribes,the young nobility not only declined to oppose the lawlessnessof the decemvirs, but they openly showed that they pre-ferred their. own freedom from all restraints to the general