Chapter IV

FROM THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS TO THE DECEMVIRATE.
B.C. 498-451.

Struggles between the Patricians and Plebeians 29

Ascendency of the Patricians 29

Sufferings of the Plebeians 30

Law of debtor and creditor 30

Ager Publicus 30

Object of the Plebeians to obtain a share in the political
power and in the public land 30

494. Secession to the Sacred Mount 30
Fable of Menenius Agrippa 31
Institution of the Tribunes of the Plebs 31

486. Agrarian Law of Sp. Cassius 31

Foreign wars 32
488. I. Coriolanus and the Volscians 32
477. II. The Fabia Gens and the Veientines 33
458. III. Cincinnatus and the Æquians 34

League between the Romans, Latins, and Hernicans 35