If any person appealed to a colleague, he left the one to whom he had appealed in such a manner as to regret that he had not abided by the sentence of the former.

An opinion also had gone abroad without an authority, that they had conspired in their tyranny not only for the present time, but that a clandestine league had been struck among them (accompanied) with an oath, that they would not hold the comitia, and that by perpetuating the decemvirate they would retain the power now in their possession.
[Footnote 136: _Impotentibus_, sc.

immoderatis--_rari aditus_, the genitive singular .-- _Stroth._] [Footnote 137: _Nec attinuisse demi securim, quum sine provocatione creati essent, interpretabantur_.

Valerius Publicola had introduced the custom of not having the axes tied up with the fasces when carried before the consuls in the city.

But the decemvirs said that this was, because an appeal from the consuls to the people was allowed.