Note 453 — Chapter II · THE GROWTH OF THE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION
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Liv. iv. 25. The principes plebis, in despair at the choice of the military tribunate always falling on Patricians, came to the conclusion that it was “ambitione artibusque” of the Patricians. Hence a tribunician measure “ne cui album in vestimentum addere petitionis liceret causa.” After great resistance “vicere tribuni ut legem perferrent.”