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Consular Tribunes; Censors 355
beians themselves vied with him in persistence until the
Fathers, at last overcome, yielded that a legislative vote
should be had concerning the right of intermarriage. . . .
c. The Military Tribunes with Consular Power
When Canuleius, through his victory over the Fathers
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and through his popularity with the plebeians, became a resulted diman
of towering stature, other tribunes in hot enthusiasm the^victoS
to enter upon a struggle for their own bill made a contest 9^^^^^^^'
with all their might, and while the rumor of war was grow-
Livy IV. 6.
ing day by day they prevented the enrollment of troops.
The consuls, since nothing could be done through the worlT, ^^6.
senate, as the tribunes interfered, held meetings of the
leading men at home.
It was clear that they would either
have to yield victory to the enemy or to citizens.
Of the
retired consuls, Valerius and Horatius took no share in
the deliberations. The motion of C. Claudius proposed to °^
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arm the consuls against the tribunes; the motions of the warfare
Quinctii, of Cincinnatus, and Capitolinus w^ould have noth- the VebeiLs
ing to do with slaughter and with violently treating the
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officers (tribunes) whom, after concluding a treaty with their grieva.nces
were
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the plebeians, they had accepted to be inviolable in person, righted.
Through these conferences the issue was brought to that ^^ ^^^^^^
point that they permitted military tribunes with consular ^^'^^^^^[l
power to be chosen indiscriminately from patricians and secret cauplebeians.
As to the election of consuls no change was to
be made; and therewith both tribunes and plebs were contented.
d. The Censors
In the year in which Marcus Geganius Macerinus was
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consul a second time and Titus Quinctius Capitolinus a 443 B.C.
fifth time, the censorship was instituted. Though of Livyiv.8.