Ab urbe condita

Titus Livius (Livy)

Livy. History of Rome, Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.

For through the withdrawal of the patricians from their council the Assembly lost more in dignity than either the plebs gamed, or the patricians lost, in strength.

[*](Impeachment of Appius Claudius.)L. Valerius and T. Aemilius were consuls for the next year, which was a still stormier one, owing, m the first place, to the struggle between the two orders over the Agrarian Law, and secondly to the prosecution of Appius Claudius.

He was impeached by the tribunes, M. Duellius and Cn. Siccius, on the ground of his determined opposition to the Law, and also because

he defended the cause of the occupiers of the public land, as if he were a third consul.