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[6] The senate at first sought to persuade the envoys of the Celts to accept money in satisfaction of the injury, but when they would not consider this, it voted to surrender the accused. But the father of the man to be surrendered, who was also one of the military tribunes with consular power, appealed the judgement to the people,1 and since he was a man of influence among the masses, he persuaded them to void the decision of the senate.

1 An instance of the famous provocatio ad populum.

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