What inference may be drawn from this?
FOOTNOTES: [1] These were first called Praetors, next Judices, and afterwards Consuls: a Consulendo, from their consulting the good of the Common wealth.

They had the royal ornaments, as the golden crown, sceptre, purple robes, lictors, and the ivory and curule chairs.

The crowns and sceptres were, however, used only on extraordinary days of triumph .-- See Introduction.
[2] For this heroic act, Hora'tius was crowned on his return; his status was erected in the temple of Vulcan; as much land was given him as a plough could surround with a furrow in one day, and a tax was voluntarily imposed to make him a present in some degree suitable to the service he had performed.
[3] From this time he obtained the additional name of Scaevola, or left-handed, from his having lost the use of his right hand by the fire.
[4] National pride induced the Romans to conceal the fact that the city was surrendered to Porsenna; Tacitus, however, expressly declares that it was, and Pliny informs us of the severe conditions imposed by the conqueror; one of the articles prohibited them from using iron except for the purposes of agriculture.

Plutarch, in his Roman Questions, declares that there was a time when the Romans paid a tenth of their produce to the Etrurians, but that they were freed from the disgraceful tribute by Hercules; this tradition appears to refer to the conquest of the city by Porsenna.
[5] Besides this, by his emissaries, he engaged the meaner sort of citizens and the slaves in a conspiracy.

The former were, at an appointed time, to seize the ramparts, and the latter to murder their masters at the same instant.