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27.
Pulso Tarquinio adversum patrum factiones multa
populus paravit tuendae libertatis et firmandae concordiae,
creatique decemviri et accitis quae usquam egregia compositae duodecim tabulae, finis aequi iuris. nam secutae
leges etsi aliquando in maleficos ex delicto, saepius tamen
dissensione ordinum et apiscendi inlicitos honores aut pellendi claros viros aliaque ob prava per vim latae sunt. hinc
Gracchi et Saturnini turbatores plebis nec minor largitor
nomine senatus Drusus; corrupti spe aut inlusi per intercessionem socii. ac ne bello quidem Italico, mox civili
omissum quin multa et diversa sciscerentur, donec L. Sulla
dictator abolitis vel conversis prioribus, cum plura addidisset, otium eius rei haud in longum paravit, statim turbidis Lepidi rogationibus neque multo post tribunis reddita
licentia quoquo vellent populum agitandi. iamque non
modo in commune sed in singulos homines latae quaestiones, et corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.
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