to be considered not more criminal than
it was monstrous: nor was it sufficiently expiated by his blood; unless
the roof and walls within which so mad a project had been conceived,
should be levelled to the ground, and his effects were confiscated, as
being contaminated with the price of purchasing kingly domination. He
ordered, therefore, that the quaestors should sell this property and
deposit the proceeds in the treasury."

16. He then ordered his house to be immediately razed, that the vacant
ground might serve as a monument of nefarious hopes destroyed. This was
called AEquimaelium. Lucius Minucius was presented with a gilded ox on the
outside of the gate Trigemina, and this not even against the will of the
commons, because he distributed Maelius's corn, after valuing it at one
_as_ per bushel. In some writers I find that this Minucius had changed
sides from the patricians to the commons, and that having been chosen as
eleventh tribune of the people, he quieted a commotion which arose on
the death of Maelius. But it is scarcely credible that the patricians
would have suffered the number of the tribunes to be increased, and that
such a precedent should be introduced more particularly in the case of a
man who was a patrician; or that the commons did not afterwards
maintain, or at least attempt, that privilege once conceded to them. But
the legal provision made a few years before, viz. that it should not be
lawful for the tribunes to choose a colleague, refutes beyond every
thing else the false inscription on the statue. Quintus Caecilius,
Quintus Junius, Sextus Titinius, were the only members of the college of
tribunes who had not been concerned in passing the law for conferring
honours on Minucius; nor did they cease both to throw out censures one
time on Minucius, at another time on Servilius, before the commons, and
to complain of the unmerited death of Maelius. They succeeded, therefore,
in having an election held for military tribunes rather than for
consuls, not doubting but that in six places, for so many were now
allowed to be elected, some plebeians also might be appointed, by their
professing to be avengers of the death of Maelius. The commons, though
they had been agitated that year by many and various commotions, neither
elected more than three tribunes with consular power; and among them
Lucius Quintius, son of Cincinnatus, from the unpopular nature of whose
dictatorship an occasion for disturbance was so