.Fresh Internal Dissensions. The. new tribunes of the plebs studied the wishes of the senate in co-opting colleagues; they even admitted two patricians of consular rank, Sp.Tarpeius and A. Eternius。The new consuls were Spurius Herminius and T. Verginius Caelimontanus, who were not violent partisans either the patricians or the plebeians. They maintained QPt] 亡fLe﹄土 ace both at home and abroad. L. Treboniu' a tribune of e plebs, was angry with the senate because, as he said, he had been hoodwinked by them in the co-optation of tribunes, and left in the lurch. by his colleagues. He brought in a measure providing that when tribunes of the plebs were to be elected, the presiding magistrate should continue to hold the election until ten tribunes were elected.He sp ent his year of office in worrying the patricians, which led to his receiving the nickname interfering with t1dignity of the pasenate for service athe plebs quiet bywhen the City was,,civil discord encot社ormer or compromising thehad been decreed by thens and Aqui, but they keptand publicly asserting thatg abroad was quiet, whereas. Their care for peace led 切harmony at home. But the one order was always restless 汕en the other showed moderation. Whilst the plebs was quiet it began. to b丫ubjected to， acts.,，of violence， from..,户e younger p产Ic赞S.,-，。I ne件DU臀”tried，to protect势ew终ker si尽e, but triey件Id littleg0尸a at邢丹t,叩us只on. even.毕ey tnemselves were not exempt from u工一treatment, especiauy in the later months of their year of office. Secret combinations amongst the stronger party resulted in lawlessness, and the exercise of the tribunitian auth )rity usually slackened towards the close of the year. Any hop es the plebeians might place in their tribunes depended upon th eir having men like工cilius;for the last two years they had had mere names. On the other hand. 护，.，，，.，j，，，，，，尹 the older p atricians reausea znaz tnezr younger members were too昭gressive, were to be excesses they preferred that their own side should commit them rather than their opponents. So dif=ficult is it to observe moderation in thedefence of liberty, while each man under the "pretence ofequality raises himself only by keeping others down, and bytheir very precautions against fear men make themselves feared,and in repelling injury from ourselves we inflict it on others asthough there were no alternative between doing wrong and suffering it.