25/65 In the mean time, these intestine tumults produced weakness within the state, and confidence in the enemy abroad. The wars with the AE'qui and the Vol'sci still continued; and, as each year some trifling advantage was obtained over the Romans, they, at last, advanced so far, as to make their incursions to the very walls of Rome.[2] [Sidenote: U.C. But not the courage only of the Romans, their other virtues also, particularly their justice, seemed diminished by these contests. The tribunes of the people now grew more turbulent; they proposed two laws: one to permit plebeians to intermarry with the patricians; and the other, to permit them to be admitted to the consulship also. |