Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . again granted to the people. Appius Claudius and Oppius, his chief abet- ROME.—EARL Y ANNALS. 127 tor in tlie recent scenes of violence and outrage,were arrested and thrown into jjrison, whencethey were glad to escape by suicide. Theother eight decemvirs fl
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . again granted to the people. Appius Claudius and Oppius, his chief abet- ROME.—EARL Y ANNALS. 127 tor in tlie recent scenes of violence and outrage,were arrested and thrown into jjrison, whencethey were glad to escape by suicide. Theother eight decemvirs fled into exile. Threenew statutes, known as the Yalerio-IIora-tian Laws—from the name of their authorswho were now elected to the consulship—wereenacted, in which the consular authority wasstill further limited. The first law was a re-newal of the guarantv hv which the tribunes claimed coordinate jurisdiction with tlie Fenatein the matter of making laws; and thoughthe latter body naturally resented this divisionof a jiower which had been exclusively its own,yet the assertion of jilebeian rights coulil nutbe longer j)revented. It came to pass in prac-tice that the tribunes carried the laws whichthey desired to have adopted to the Senate toreceive the sanction of that august assembly;ami for a while the iiopular olhcrrs would re-. TUl- liLAD MFi, t\ H \ogd of the 2eiple were made inviolable in theirpersons, and also a restoration of the old IcilianLaw. The second statute revived the i-ight ofappeal against the sentence of any magistrate;and the ihird and most important was that thephhisiita, or resolutions adopted in the assem-lily of the plebeian tribes, should have theforce of law upon the whole people. Thus, atlast, was the legislative power of the Romancommons directly recognized and accepted. The plebeians were quick to avail them-selves of their new prei-ogatives. They now outs while the Senate iiouse wliile the pro-posed measures wore discussid by the piitr
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