Al.DUL1.11US, a former tribune informed the plebs that, owing to incessant wranglings, no business was being transacted in the senate.He did not believe that the senators would trouble about them till they saw the City deserted;the Sacred Hill would remind them of the firm determination once shown by the plebs, and they would learn. that unless the tribunitian power was restored there could be no concord in the State. The armies left the Aventine and, }zoina out by the N omenran-or, as it was then caned,饥e -Ficulan road、then encamp ed on the Sacred Mill, imitating the moderation of their fathers by abstaxni all. injury. The plebeian civilians followed the army, no one whose age allowed him to go hung back. Their waives and children followed them, asking in piteous tones to whom would they leave them. in a City where neither modesty nor liberty were respected?The unwonted solitude Lxave a dreary and aeserrea looK to every part of入onle;in the .Forum there were omy a rew or tine oiaer patricians, ana wnen the senate was in session it was wholly deserted. Many besides Horatius and valerius were now angrily asking,“what are you waiting for, senators.?lf he decemviz If tede，mv; ws do。七lay aside their obstinacy, will youallowevery伍ino- to allow evervthir,，币go to wrack and ruin? And what, pray, is that authority, decemvirs, to which you d ing so closely?Are you going to administer .jus tice to walls and roofs?Are you n。七,ashamed七。see a greater number of lictors in the Forum than of all other citizens put together?what will you do if the enemy approach the City? what if the plebs, seeing that their secession has no effect, come shortly against us in arms?Do you ,want to end your power by the fall of the City?Either you will have to do without the plebeians or you will have to accept their tribunes;sooner than they wall go without their magistrates, we shall have to go without ours. That power which they wrested from our fathers, when it was an untried novelty, they will not submit to be deprived of, nowthat they have tasted the sweets of Iit, especially as we are notmaking that moderate use of our power which would preventtheir needing its protection. Remonstrances like these came from all parts of the House; at last the decemvirs, overborneby the unanimous opposition, asserted that since it was thegeneral wish, they would submit to the authority of the senate.x..11 they asked for was that they might be protected against thepopular rage; they warned the senate against the plebs becom-ing by their death habituated to inflicting punishment on the patricians.Y 'Y'1^ T Y 7 ,_