ἱστορίαι Historiai
Liv. 3.57 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
Verginius replied.,, 11, 却p l1uth s Claudius, he said, alone was outside饥e laws, outsxa.e all e bonds that held States or even human society together. Let men cast their eyes on that tribunal, the fortress of all villainies,11 11 . 1",where that perpetual decemvxr, surrounaea Dy hangmen not ixctoV .-I `I 11 11 "不号,in con万empt of gods., w , and men, ahke, wreaked, his vengeance on the、 goods, the. backs,.. ," r ., .t 1111 . ,. an件协“.llv弓s or the ciraze马s,,tare叮eni丹g all。x叩zscriminately 111恤tn.e rods and axes, and znen when his mina was diverted from rapine and murder to lust, tore a free-born maiden from of the Roman plebs." Let him- appeal again and again, he (the speaker) woura arways refer him to an urnmre on the charze of having sentenced a tree person to slavery. It he would not go_before an, ump-1- r- __ , -I沙he should order him to be imprisoned as La甲ughY工。una guilty. 并e严as acco华平gly‘tnrgwn mzo prison,色叩势0u黔no.,one actuany opposea this step, there was a general士eelxnizy of anxietv. 一月气,,,,一沂,,。,~,,…J‘ since even. tn.e pieuelans themselves tnougrit it an excessive use 2O斗 L 1vy of their liberty to inflict punishment on so great a man. The tribune dayof trial.da D吵g these proceedings ambassadors carne froze the Lati4s and itiernlcans to o廿er thear congratulations on the restoration 游Dtion rather than magnificence. They alsothat the Equi and Volscians were devotingireparing for war. The consuls were there--range their respective commands. Thea,tius, the Equi to Valerius. They pro-se wars, anal so favourable was the attitudeonly did the men liable for service promptlybut a large part of the levy consisted oftheir tame and came forward as volunteers. In this way the army was strengthened not only in numbers but in the quality of the soldiers, as veterans took their places in the ranks. Before they left the City, the laws of the decenivirs, known as the“Twelve Tables," were engraved in brass and publicly exhibited;some writers assert that the oediles discharged this task under orders from. the tribunes。

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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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