[Footnote 70: After the manner of animals about to be sacrificed.—D.O.]
[Footnote 71: This was probably the origin of the "clubs" of young patricians, to which so much of the later violance was due.—D.O.]
[Footnote 72: The lex sacrata, which declared their persons inviolate.—D.O.]
[Footnote 73: The assembly of the plebeians by tribes.—D.O.]
[Footnote 74: Of tribunes.]
[Footnote 75: The consular year.]
[Footnote 76: One of the rewards of good conduct was double rations.—D.O.]
[Footnote 77: That is, the contest to obtain the reform.—D.O.]
[Footnote 78: While the plebeians lost the dignity conferred on the assembly by the presence of distinguished patricians, they gained nothing, as, in the mere matter of votes, they already had a majority; and the patricians lost nothing, as the number of their votes would not be sufficient to render them of much importance.]
[Footnote 79: There were other specific charges, but Livy confines himself to the spirit of the prosecution.—D.O.]