Harangues of this sort were listened to with approval, and some were induced to stand for“consular tribune- Ship, eac几瞥in兮平promising to bring， in some measure in. the interest of txie pieos. Hopes were held out of a division of the State domain '-3 and the formation of colonies w址lst money was to be raised for the payment of the soldiers by a tax on the occupiers of the public land. The consular tribunes waited tin the usual exodus from the City allowed a meeting of the senate to be held in the absence of the tribunes of the plebs, the members who were in the country b eing A resolution was passed th 弓edthat .of the Hernican territory衍the ans the consular tribunes should },ro anal find out what was happening, and that at the forthcoming elections consuls should be chosen. On their departure thev left Apius Claudius. the 曰.J卜‘， son of the decemvir, to act as o# enerav, anal imbued from plebs anal its tribunes. The tribunes had nothinff on which to raise a contest either with the consular tribunes, who were absent, the authors of the decree, or with .Appius, as the matter had been settled.