8.
When these speeches against and for the bill had been delivered, the next day an even greater crowd of women appeared in public, and all of them in
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a body beset the doors of the Bruti, who were vetoing their colleagues' proposal, and they did not desist until the threat of veto was withdrawn by the, tribunes.
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After that there was no question that all the tribes would vote to repeal the law. The law was repealed twenty years after it was passed.
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[p. 441]
Marcus Porcius the consul, as soon as the Oppian1 law was abrogated, at once set out for the harbour of Luna with twenty-five warships, of which five belonged to the allies, having ordered his army to muster at the same place and sent a proclamation along the coast to collect ships of every kind;
[5]
as he set out from Luna he issued an order that they should follow him to the port of Pyrenaeus, and thence he would proceed against the enemy with all the fleet.
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They sailed past the Ligurian mountains and the Gallic gulf and joined him on the day he had set. Thence they sailed to Rhoda and ejected by violence a guard of Spaniards that was in the fortress.
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From Rhoda with favouring winds they came to Emporiae, and there landed all the forces except the naval allies.
1 B.C. 195
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