return, we met seven very wild-looking Indians, of whom

power under the king, but the Romans had no such balance. The

patricians and plebeians in Rome were perpetually at variance, and

there was no intermediate power to reconcile them. The Roman

senate, who were so unjustly, so criminally proud as not to suffer

the plebeians to share with them in anything, could find no other

artifice to keep the latter out of the administration than by

employing them in foreign wars. They considered the plebeians as a

wild beast, whom it behoved them to let loose upon their neighbours,

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