. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . Plate XII. L. Junius Brutus (?) 54. Plate XIII. Etruscan Bronze : Head of A Youth 55 PLEBS AND POPULUS the breath of popular favour.^ Each of the decemvirs tookhis turn to administer justice for one day, attended, on thatoccasion only, by twelve lictors, with their bundles of rods. The Twelve Tables Everything went smoothly during the first year of thedecemvirate, and ten tables of the law were drawn up andexhibited for the inspection and criticism of all comers. In duecourse the new cod
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . Plate XII. L. Junius Brutus (?) 54. Plate XIII. Etruscan Bronze : Head of A Youth 55 PLEBS AND POPULUS the breath of popular favour.^ Each of the decemvirs tookhis turn to administer justice for one day, attended, on thatoccasion only, by twelve lictors, with their bundles of rods. The Twelve Tables Everything went smoothly during the first year of thedecemvirate, and ten tables of the law were drawn up andexhibited for the inspection and criticism of all comers. In duecourse the new code was ratified by the votes of the centuriateassembly, and henceforth remained as the fountain of publicand private right. At the end of the year it was found thattwo tables were still wanting to complete the code, and Appius,whose assumption of disinterested patriotism had been merelya cloak to hide his real purpose, now showed himself in his truecharacter. Having contrived by unworthy arts to get himselfelected on the new board, he filled up its numbers with hisown creatures, all men of little mark, and three of themplebeians. Then he
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