The next day they were called together again. Wh in accordance with Greek usage, the usher announced that I gave permission to speak to any one who wished to lay his views before the council, there was a long silence, each looking for some one else to speak. Nor was this su rpnsmg when men who had been turning over in their minds proposals flatly opposed to each other until their brains had standstill, were still t艳er_beRnld ered by speeches whole day in which the difficulties on both set forth in tones of At last, Aristaenus ，the president, determined not to adjourn the council without discussion, said:“Wh Achaeans. are putes冲ich go on at your dI }q ...种er-tables and at the street comers, to wnicn whenever rtWip or the Romans are mentioned you can scarcely xeep your hands ott each other? Now, in a council convened for this special purpose, when you have heard the representatives of both sides, when the magistrates submit the question to discussion, when the usher invites you to express your’views, you have become dumb. If care for the common safety fails to do so, cannot the party spirit which makes you take one side or the other, extort a word from any one?especially as no one is so dense as not to see that this is the moment, before any decree is passed, for speaking and advocating the course which commends itself to any one as the best. When a decree has once been made, every one will have to uphold it as a zood and salutarv measure. even those who vreviously oDDosed it." This aDDeal from the Dresident not oniv failed