e term _inhibeo_ occurs
frequently in this sense, as below, _imperioque inhibendo_. The
adjective _imminutis_ also refers evidently to _honoris
insignibus_.--_Stroth._]

[Footnote 141: The words are, _quum et ipsi invisum consensu imperium,
et plebs, quid privatis jus non esset vocandi senatum, non convenire
patres interpretarentur_, i. e. while, on the one hand, the decemvirs
themselves accounted for the staying away of the senators from the
meeting, by the fact of their (the decemvirs') government being disliked
by them; whilst, on the other hand, the commons accounted for the
non-appearance of the senators by the fact, that being now mere private
citizens, their time of office being passed, they (the decemvirs) had no
right whatever to convene the senate.--_Stroth._]

[Footnote 142: The senators were obliged to attend the meeting of the
senate when convened by the magistrate; otherwise a fine was imposed, to
insure the payment of which pledges were exacted, which were sold in
case of non-payment. See Cicero de Orat. iii. 1. Philip. i. 5.]

[Footnote 143: In the original the words are: _quod iis qui jam
magistratu abissent, privatisque, si vis abesset_, &c., i. e. who
differed in no other respect from mere private citizens, except that
they had recourse to violence, which it was competent for the magistrate
only to do.]

39. But they showed more obedience in coming into the senate than
servility in the sentiments expressed by them, as we have learned. It
is recorded that, after Appius's stating the subject of the meeting, and
before the opinions were demanded in order, Lucius Valerius Potitus
excited a commotion, by demanding permission to express his sentiments
concerning the state, and when the decemvirs were prohibiting him with
threats, declaring that he would present himself before the people. (We
have also heard) that Marcus Horatius Barbatus entered the lists with no
less boldness, calling them "ten Tarquins," and reminding them, "that
under the leadership of the Valerii and Horatii[144] the kings had been
expelled. Nor was it of the mere name that men were then tired, it being
that by which it was usual to style Jupiter, and by which Romulus, the
founder of the city, and his successors were also styled; a name too
which has been retained even in the ceremonies of religion, as a solemn
one; that it was the tyranny and arrogance of a king they then detested,
which if they were not to be tolerated in one who