the tribunes of the plebs by not interfering with the liberty of the. people to,"呀ect the four quaestors from patricians or plebeians iialscrunmareiy, XLIV: The election of consular tribunes was the f r"st to be held. They were all patricians;L. Quinctius Cincinnatus, for the third tinge, L. Furius Medullinus。 for the second.M.Manlius. and八·Sempronius Atratinus. The last-namea conducted the election of the quaestors， Amongst other plebeian candidates were the son of Antistius, trio une of the plebs, and.,-__}L r". " . w“brother of Sextus Pompiliu s, another tinoune. I heir authority and interest were not, h 。wever, stro ng enou., .叭to prevent the voters from preferring on the ground of their haft birth those whose fathers and grandfathers they had 3een in the consul's chair. All the tribunes of the plebs w( Antistius, more especially, were incensed at the defeat of their relations. " what,"一 they angrily exclaimof all this? In spite of our good offices, isdone by the patricians, with all the freedcexercising powers you did not possess beforeof the plebs has been raised to the quaestoof the consular tribuneship 1 The appealsof a son, of a brother on behalf of a brotheing, though they are tribunes, investedauthority to protect your liberties. Ther琳 dishonesty som吵ere，A. Sempronius has shown. more adroitness than straigntiorwaraness.'I. ^- Is‘.They accused. him opt having kepi their men our. ox ornce ay illegal means. As they could not attack him directly, protected as he was by his innocence and his official position, they turned Caius SeMDronius、the uncle of Atratinus. and havinz obtained 占，。.，‘·，，，r。若。。，v the supDort oa: their coneague, ivi。uanuieius. tnev Impeacnea 占人V r wJ占 him upon the ground of the disgrace incurred in the Volscian war. These same tribunes frequently mooted the question in the senate of a distribution of the public domain, a proposal which C. Sempronius always stoutly resisted. They thought, and trial came, he influence杭th rightly as the event proved, that when the day ofwould either abandon his opposition and so losethe patricians, or by persisting in it give offence toHe chose the latter, and preferred to incur the the plebeians. o aa urn oz nis opponents and injure his own cause than prove false to the cause of the State. He insisted that“there should be no Lyra of land. which would onlv increase the influence of the three tribunes;what they wanted n0w was not land for the plebs, but to Wreak their spite upon him. Ire, like others, would meet the storm. with a stout heart; neither he nor any other citizen ought to stand so high with the senate that any leniency shown to an individual might be disastrous to the commonwealth." when the day of trial came there was no lowering of his tone, he undertook his own defence, and though the patricians tried every means to soften the plebeians, he was condemned to pay a fine of 15,000 “ases.'， In this same year Postumia, a Vestal virgin, had to answer a charge of unchastity. Thou沙 gr 0U nds for suspicion thr xgh her gay attire and unmaidenly fre edom of manner. After she had-been remanded and finally ai the Pontifex Maximus in the name of the whole priests, ordered her to abstain from frivolity and to study sanctity rather than. smartness in her appearance. In the sam Cumae, at that time held by the Greeks, was captured Campanians.