New Laws proposed妙the Consuls: The election of consuls took place under the presidency of an“interrex." Those elected were L. Valerius andM.Horatius，and thev at once assumea ornce. inexx consuisnzp was a popular one, and inictea no miustlce upon the patricians。tnousrn tnev regarded ht witn suspicion, for wnatever was Gone to sateguard the liberties of the plebs they looked upon as an infringement of their own powers. First of all, as it was a doubtful legal point whether the patricians were bound by the ordinances of the plebs, they carried a law in the Assembly of Centuries that what the plebs had passed in their Tribes should be binding on the whole people.22 By this law a very effective weapon was placed an the hands of the tribunes. Then another consular law, confirming the right of appeal, as the one defence of liberty, which had been annulled by the decemvirs, was not only restored but strengthened for the future by a. fresh enactment. This forbade the annointment of anv magistrate from whom there was no 11沙t of appeal, and proviaea tnat any one wno ara so appoxm injury was offered to any of those mentioned above the offender was“ sacer." If an xdile, therefore, were arrested and sent to coulca not oe done byfor him to be injured prison qy superior n-id洲,ougR zralslaw for by this lain it would not be lawfulyet it is a proof that an aedile is not heldwhereas the tribunes of the plebs were "ancient oath taken by the plebeians when to be“sacrosanct," sacrosanct " by thethat office was first created. There were some who interpreted the law as including even. the consuls in its provisions, and the praetors, because they were elected under the same auspices as the consuls, for a consul was called a“judge." This interpretation is refuted by the fact that in those times it was the custom for a judge to be called not“consul”but“praetor." These were the laws enacted by the consuls. ordered that the decrees of the senate, which used formerly to be suppressed and. tampered with at the pleasure of the consuls, should henceforth be taken to the zediles at the temple of Ceres. Marcus Duilliu}, the tribune, then proposed a resolution which the plebs adopted, that any one who should leave without tribunes, or who should create a magistrate from证om there was no appeal, should5 be scourged and beheaded. All.these transactions were distasteful. to the patricians, but they did not actively oppose卯 them,e as nonemarked out for vindictive proceedings.。‘them, had yet been