Of the LXXI. booke.
MArcus Livius Drusus a Tribune of the commons, for the better maintenance of the Senates cause, which he had undertaken, solicited the allies and the nations of Italie, upon hope to bee enfranchised citizens of Rome: by whose assistance having gone through by strong hand, with the Agrarian and Frumentarian lawes, hee obtained also the foresaid law Iudicialis, in this manner, That all iudgements should passe indifferently and equally by Senate and gentlemen. After this, when the freedome of Rome promised to the allies could not bee compassed and performed; the Italians in a chase and heat of choler began to complot how to revolt: whose conventicles, conspiracies, and orations delivered in the assemblies and diets of their princes, are in this booke reported: In regard whereof, Li∣vius Drusus became hatefull even to the Senate, as the author of a sociall warre, and in his owne house was murdered, but by whom God knoweth.