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proch, if my feruice mall bee profitable vnto you when you haue thus created me a Tribune, it mall be no lefs commodious if I doe ftill remaine a priuate man." When he had spoken those wordes, they chofe tenne Tribunes. And like as the campe at the mounte Auentine, was prouoked and ftirred to this fedition, euen so by meanes of Icilius and Numitorius besore remembred, the Annie then beinge against the Sabines began to reuolte and made the like nomber of Tribunes, which in array of battaile, marched through the citie, at the gate Colina, with banner difplaied, to ioyne with the campe vpon the mount Auentine. And when both the campes were affembled, they chofe out two amonges the twenty Tribunes, to be their generalles, called M. Opius and Sextus Manilius. The Senate, careful and penfife for these euentes, eft- sons aflembled, but no certaine determinations was agreed vpon. At length they concluded, that Valerius and Horatius, fhould bee sent to the mount Auentine to perfwade the people, but they vtterlye refufed the meflage, vnlefTe the Decemuiri were first de- pofed. The Decemuiri made aunfwere, that they would not geue ouer their authoritie, til such time as those lawes were ratified, which were treated vpon, besore they wer elected to that office. Of all these contentions the people was aduertifed by M. Duillius their Tribune. And when both their armies were ioyned at the mount Auentine, asorefayd, al the multitude of the citie, men, women, and children, repaired thither in sorte, that Rome was like a sorlorne and abandoned place. The fathers feing the citie thus relinquished, Horatius and Valerius, with diuers of the fathers, exclamed in this wife. "What do ye expect and looke for, ye fathers conscript? Will ye naffer al thinges to runne to extreame ruine and decay? Shall the Decemuiri ftill perfifte in their ftub- burne and froward determinacions ? What maner of gouernement is this (O ye Decemuiri) that ye thus lay holde vpon and enioye ? Will ye pronounce and make lawes within your owne houfes, and the limites of the fame ? Is it not a shame to fe in the sorum a greater nomber of your catchpolles and Sergeantes, then of other sober and wife Citizens ? But what will ye doe, if the enemie vpon the sodaine, dothe approche the walles? What will ye do if the people vnderstanding that we care not for their departure, do in
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