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Contents of the Twelfth Book of Diodorus
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This they did in
their desire to weaken the supremacy of the patricians; for the patricians, by reason both of
their noble birth and of the great fame that came down to them from their ancestors, were
lords, one might say, of the state. It was furthermore stipulated in the agreement that when
tribunes had served their year of office they should see that an equal number of tribunes were
appointed in their place, and that if they failed to do this they should be burned alive1; also, in case the
tribunes could not agree among themselves, the will of the interceding tribune must not be
prevented.2 Such then, we find, was the conclusion of
the civil discord in Rome.
1 Diodorus is the only authority for this law, which probably derives from the story of the burning to death of nine tribunes (Valerius Maximus 6.3.2; Dio Cassius fr. 22).
2 Some such a provision as this may be hidden in τὸν ἀνὰ μέσον κείμενον. See Eduard Meyer, "Untersuchungen über Diodors römische Geschichte," Rhein. Museum, 37 (1882), 610-627, especially pp. 618 ff., where he discusses the defective tradition which Diodorus has followed in the legislation described above.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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