ἱστορίαι Historiai
Liv. 5.10 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
Internal Troubles Xinpeachment of Sergius and erginius. -The newly elected tribunes were L,. valerius Potitus-for the fourth time -M。Furius Camillus一一for the second tine--Manius Emilius Mamercus----for the third time一 Cnaeus Cornelius Cossus-for the second time-:peso Fabius Ambustus, and L. Julius Julus. Their year of office was marked1..by many . .. incidents at home and abroad. There was a multiplicity of wars going on at once一at veii, at Capena, at Falerii, and against the volscians for the recovery of Anxur. In Rome the consular power caused great excitement. The consular tribunes made it their first business to raise a levy. Not only were the“juniors”enrolled but the“seniors” were also compelled to ,give in their nan飞es that they might act0 1 4. as City ,guards. But the increase in the numoer of solaiers necessitated a corresponding increase in the amount required for their pay, and those who rema运ed at home were unwilling to contribute their share because, in addition, they were to be harassed by military duties; ;in defence of the City, asServants of the State. This was 王n itself a serious护evance, but it was made to appear more S0 by the seditious harangues of the tribunes of the plebs, who asserted that the reason. why military pay had been established was that one half of the plebs might be crushed by the war-tax, and the other by military service. One single war was now ng alo ng into its third year, and WaS beingbadly 爹badlymanaged deliber ately in order that they might have it the longer to n Then,aga运。armies had ,W L,.r I,, been enrolled for four In one levy, ana even aoys There was no difference made now between summer and winter, in order that the wretched plebeians might never have any respite. .end now, to crown all, theyevenhad t y evenr呼0P盯a war-tax,乡tat咧 sothatwhenh they returned, worn out by toll and wounds, and last of all b V age, and fou d all, their’ land untitled through_理砰够oftIwant of the owner's care, they had to meet thus demand out of their wasted property and return to the State their pay as soldiers many times over, as though they had borrowed it on usury. What。 with the and the war-tax and the preoccupation of men's minds still zraver anxieties、 it was found im- 砂 e to get the full number of plebeian tribunes elected. truzzle bean to secure the co-OAtation of uatricians into the vacant places. This proved to be impossible, but m order to weaken the authority of the Trebonian Law, it was arr tinged ,doubtless through. the influence of the patricians, that C. Luce riUs anal M. Acutius should be co-opted as tribunes of

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass
Camillus — a life Cornelius — a candidate entry Fabius — a life Furius — a candidate entry Sergius — a candidate entry

The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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