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Often appears with: valerius potitus speech · senate debate · justice as a virtue · horatius barbatus · courts, trials, and pleading · censorship and the press
Usually: speech or oration (1) · injustice endured (1) · censure (1)
Lucius Valerius Potitus and Marcus Horatius Barbatus denounce the decemvirs as new Tarquins and argue that suppressing speech forces grievances outside the senate, while Gaius Claudius urges caution and later proposes deferring decrees.
by such bribes, the young nobles not only made no opposition to oppression, but openly avowed a preference for their own selfish gratification rather than for the liberty of all. The ides of May came round. Without any magistrates being elected in place of those retiring, private persons [45]came forward as decemvirs, without any abatement either in their determination to enforce their authority, or any alteration i…