great deli蜘t of those who had fomented the war. ExtendinLy plunder to Corbio, thto an Assembly.·一‘Quinctius convoked。·people QLXVIL I find that he spokeQuirites, my own conscience is摆、as followsit is, neverth狱ough,with feelings of， the， deepest shame that I have.-.17 t 't 1 11 .1 . . 11,111 1 1，come before.you: 上hat you should know-that.,'I . 1 T"'1 1 t Y 1‘〔will De handed， down to posterity1 1 , 1 1 11 --that the ,Equi and v o1sclans, who were lately hardly a match for the I-Iernici, have in the fourth consulship of T. Quinctius come in arms up to the walls of Rome with impunity!Althou gh.irs we have long been living in such a state, although public are in such a condition, that my mind augurs nothinz zood. 。·，，1 1 Y 1，，，.1·，·J‘二，，.““二 SUB, nag上Known. that this disgrace was coming in this year, of all others, I would have avoided by exile or by death, had there been no other means of escape, the honour of a consulship. So then, if those arms which were at our Gates had been in the hands of men worthy of the name, Rome could have been, taken whilst I was consul!I had enough of honours, enough and more than. enough of life, I ought to have died in my third consulship.Who was it that those most 4stardly foes felt contempt for, us consuls, or you Quirites?If the fault is in us, strip us of an office which we are unworthy to hold, and if that is not enough, visit us with punishment. If the fault is in you, may there be no one, either god or man, who will punish your sins;may you repent of there!It was not your cowardice that provoked their contempt, nor their valour that gave there conj，‘护 fidence;they have been too often defeated, put to flight, driven out of their entrenchments, deprived of their territory, not to know themselves and you. It is the dissensions between the two orders, the quarrels between patricians and plebeians that TheD ecemvirate 2is is poisoning the life of this City. As long as our, power respects no limits, and your fiberty acknowledges no restraints,r r r 1.as long as you are impatient 01 patrician, we叭pieDelan m:ag黔r} T T T^1畔es, so long' has the courage ox our enemies peen rising. What in heaven s name do you want? You set your hearts on having tribunes of the plebs, we Y] 贝elded, for the sake of peace. You yearned for decemvirs，we consented to their app ointment; you grewu“比 y w uLL _-l_..uticeri ----dry of them, we compelled them to resign. Your hatred pursued them into private life; to sans行you, we allowed the noblest and most distinguished of our order to suffer death or go into exile. You wanted tribunes of the plebs to be aPo ' 丁pointed again;y呼.,叨P.ol.n优‘ you have appointed them. Although we saw how unjust it was to the patricians that men devoted toyour interests should be elected consuls, we have seen even that patrician office conferred by favour of the plebs. The t点bunes，Protectlveautnony,tribunes' protec饥er 1g tive authorit，the r吵tf ap peal to the people, the resolutions of the plebs made bin 0n the patricians, the sur of our r妙is and privileges under the pretext of 功a king the laws edu things we have submitted to, and do submit to what term is there to be to our dissendons ? When shall we ever be allowed to have a united Citv. when will this ever be our common fatherland?we who have lost,'show more calmness and evenness of temper than you who have won. Is it not enou沙that you have made us fear you? It was against us that the Aventine was-rr"71 1 TT77 11 1111.% '7.seize, us the sacred且111 occupied. When the Esquiline is all but captured and the Volscian is trying to scale the rampart, no one dislodges him. Against us you show yourselves men;against us you take up arms.