Whence, since their jurisdiction allowed of no appeal, they _interpreted_, i.

e.
by interpreting the meaning or intention of this custom, they concluded that they were not bound by it, and that there was no reason why they should remove the axes from the fasces .-- _Crev._] [Footnote 138: _Provocatione_--intercessionem.

The _provocatio_ was to the people, whilst the _intercessio_ referred to the decemvirs against a colleague.] 37.

The plebeians then began to watch narrowly the countenances of the patricians, and (hoped) to catch the breeze of liberty from that quarter, by apprehending slavery from which, they had brought the republic into its present condition.

The leading members of the senate detested the decemvirs, detested the commons; they neither approved of what was going on, and they considered that what befell the latter was not without their deserving it.