their leaders against criminal citizens before they led them against the enemy in arms. when this was going on in the senate, Canuleius delivered the following speech in defence of his laws and in opposition to the、consuls:“1 fancy, Quintes, that I have often noticed in the past how greatly the patricians despise yon., how unworthy they deem you to live in the same City, within the same walls, as they. Now, however, it is perfec勿 obvious, seeing how bitter an opposition they have raised to our proposed laws. For what is our purpose in framing them, except to remind them that we are their fellow--citizens, and though eve do not possess the same power, we still inhabit the same country? In one of, these laws, we demand the right of intermarriage, a right usually granted to neighbours and foreigners -indeed we have granted citizenship, which is more than intermarna to a conquered enemy-in the other we are bringing forward nothing new, but simply demandingback what belongs to the people and claiming that the Romanpeople should confer its honours on whom it will. Whatpossible reason is there why they should embroil heaven andearth, why recently in the Senate-house r was on the point ofbeing subjected to personal violence, why they declare theywill not keep their hands off, and threaten to attack our *in-violable authority? Will this City be no longer able to stand,is our dominion at an end, of a free vote is allowed to the Roman people so that they may entrust the consuls弃护to吵omsoever they Nvill, ancx no plebeian may be shine our from the hope of attaining the highest honour it only he be worthy of the highest honour?Does the phrase‘Let no plebeian be made consul’ mean just the Sam.e as‘No slave or freedman shall be consul.’? D o you ever realise in what contempt you are living?Thev 、“沪 J would rob you of your share in this daylight, if they could. They are indignant because you breathe and utter speech and Wear rm of men. Why!Heaven forgive me, they actually that it would be an act of impiety for a plebeian to be made consul! ouch we are not allowed access to the‘Fasti’ but not even a Roman citizen, was summoned from the land of the Sabines, and after being accepted by the people and confirmed by the senate, reigned as king of Rome .} Or that after him,, L. Tarquimus, who belonged to no Roman house not even to an Italian one, beinz the son of Demaratus of Corinth, who had settled in Tarpuinii。 was made king while 产1廿 the sons of Ancus were still alive? Or that after, him again, Servius Tullius, the illegitimate son of a female slave captured at Corniculum, gained the crown by sheer merit and ability? Why need I mention the Sabine Titus Tatius with whom Romulus himself, the Father of the City, shared his throne' As long as n 〕class of person in which conspicuous merit appeared was rejected, the Roman dominion grew. Are you then to regard a plebeian consul with disgust, when our ancestors showed no aversion to strangers as their kings?Not even after the expulsion of the kings was the City closed to foreign merit, The Claudian house, at all events, who migrated from the Sabines, was received by us not only into citizenship, but even into the ranks of the patricians. Shall a man who was an alien become a， patrician and afterwards consul, and“Romanw citizen, i士ne belongs to the p工弓Ds,一e. cuz OH工rom all hope of the consulship? Do we believe that it is impossible for a plebeian} 7 1 "1 7 7 " ti to be brave and energetic and capaDle Win in peace. and,， war; or it there be such a man, are we not to allow him to touch the helm of the State;are we to have, by preference, consuls like