II.

I.Senate, II.III.Opposition of the Patriciate 9.

II.II.Legislation of the Twelve Tables 10.

II.III.Equivalence Law and Plebiscitum 11.

The statements as to the poverty of the consulars of this period, which play so great a part in the moral anecdote-books of a later age, mainly rest on a misunderstanding on the one hand of the old frugal economy--which might very well consist with considerable prosperity -- and on the other hand of the beautiful old custom of burying men who had deserved well of the state from the proceeds of penny collections -- which was far from being a pauper burial.