The Law respecting the Intermarriage of Patricians and Plebeians.--The consuls who succeeded wereM.Genucius and C. Curtius. The year was a troubled one both at home and abroad. In the beginning of the year C. Canuleius, a tribune of the plebs，introduced a law with regard to the intermarriaLye of patricians anti plebeians. 1 ne patricians considered让at tr.exr 0100a would. be contaminates DV it ana the special rimhts of the nooses tnrown into conxusxon.y Then the tribunes began to throw out hints about one consul being elected from. the plebs, and matters advanced so far that nine tribunes brought in a measure empowering the people to elect consuls from the plebeians or the patricians as they chose. The patricians believed that, if this were carried, the supreme power would not only be degraded by being shared with the lowest of the people, but would entirely pass away from the chief men in the State into the hands of the plebs. The senate were not sorry, therefore, to hear that Ardea had revolted as a consequence of the unjust decision about the territory, that the Veientines had ravaged the districts on the Roman frontier, and that the Volscians and XQui were DrotestinEr aLrainst the zoruiving oar v erruzo:so much aia tnev meter war. even wnen unsuccesstui. to an ifynominiouspease. un receivuaz these reports--wnicn were somewhat exa2aeratea --the senate tried to drown the voice or the triDunes in the uproar of so many wars by ordering a levy to be made and all preparations for war pushed on with the utmost vigour, more soy if possible, than during the consulship of T. Quinctius. Thereup on C. Canuleius addressed恤e senate in a short and angry speech. It was, he said, useless for比e consuls to hold out 让Teats in the hope of distracting the attention of the plebs from the proposed law;:may long as b e was alive they should never hold a, levy until the plebs had adopted the measures 222 brought forwardb y by himself and his colleagues. He at once: convened an .Assembly