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A Supplement of the first defective passage in the forty fifth Book, at the end of the fourteenth Chapter, fol. 868.
And order'd to take care that an House should be provided for King Mesagines, and his Reti∣nue, and that nothing should be wanting either for recovery of his health, or his respective treatment and accommodation, to have his Table nobly furnisht, and provide him Ship∣ping as soon as he was well, to transport him into Africk.
About this time the Tribunes of the Commons indicted and condemn'd the Tres viri No∣cturni [or three Night Magistrates appointed to prevent and extinguish Fires] M. Mil∣vius, Cn. Lollius and L. Sextilius, because when a great Fire happen'd in the street call'd Via Sacra, they neglected their duty, and came not time enough to give the necessary Or∣ders. After which the Comitia were held, and Q. Aelius Paetus, and M. Junius Pennus cho∣sen Consuls. The Praetors were Q. Cassius Longinus, M. Juventius Thalna, Ti. Claudius Nero, A. Manlius Torquatus, Cn. Fulvius Gillo, and C. Licinius Nerva.
The same year Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, and Claudius Pulcher, exercis'd the Censorship with great severity, but interrupted by the Interposition of the Tribunes. In other things those two Censors agreed well enough, but not in calling over the Libertini, [or Sons of such as had once been Servants, but afterwards made free] Gracchus would have them re∣duc'd all into one Tribe, lest that numerous scum of the Commons, dispers'd through many Tribes, should carry too great a sway in all Elections; But this device Claudius oppos'd, and would have nothing alter'd in this matter from the antient manner; for both by Servius Tullius the King, an•• again by C. Flaminius and L. Aemilius when they were Censors, The Libertini [those whose Fathers had formerly been Slaves] were ranged, &c. [as fol. 868.]