. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. n the walls ofthe capital between the patricians and the plebeians trans-ferred to a larger arena. As the patricians, before theequalization of the orders, had claimed for themselvesalone the right to manage the affairs of the state, so nowdid the united orders claim for Rome alone the right tomanage the affairs of all Latium. The Latins were obligedto obey the commands of Rome, and to follow her lead inwar. But they were now growing very dissatisfied withtheir position in the unequal alliance, and resolved thatRome should
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. n the walls ofthe capital between the patricians and the plebeians trans-ferred to a larger arena. As the patricians, before theequalization of the orders, had claimed for themselvesalone the right to manage the affairs of the state, so nowdid the united orders claim for Rome alone the right tomanage the affairs of all Latium. The Latins were obligedto obey the commands of Rome, and to follow her lead inwar. But they were now growing very dissatisfied withtheir position in the unequal alliance, and resolved thatRome should give up the sovereignty she was practicallyexercising. Accordingly they sent an embassy to Rome,demanding that the association should be made one ofperfect equality. To this end the ambassadors proposedthat in the future one of the consuls should be a Latin,and that one-half of the senate should be chosen from theLatin nation. Rome was to be the common fatherland,and all were to bear the Roman These demands of the ambassadors were listened to 9 Livy, viii. THE CONQUEST OF ITALY. I 19 by the Roman senators with amazement and of the consuls, Titus Manlius by name, voiced theiranger in declaring that, should Latins by any chance gainadmission to the senate house, he would enter there withhis sword and put them all to death with his own turning, and addressing the statue of Jupiter, heexclaimed: O Jupiter, canst thou endure to behold in thyown sacred temple, strangers as consuls and as senators ? The demands of the Latin allies were refused, and warfollowed, a war in which the Romans were fighting theirformer comrades of the camp and the field. The Cam-panians lent aid to the Latins, while the Samnites helpedthe Romans against the common enemy. The following tale of the war given us by Livy is ofvalue as exhibiting the quality of sternness in the Romancharacter. In one of the early campaigns of the war theconsul Titus Manlius had given strict o
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