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Rh First Secession of the Plebeians (494 B.C.).—Taking advantage of the disorders that followed the political revolution, the Latin towns which had been forced to acknowledge the supremacy of

Rome rose in revolt, and the result was that almost all the conquests that had been made under the kings were lost. For a long time the little republic had to struggle hard for bare existence.

Troubles without brought troubles within. The poor plebeians, during this period of disorder and war, fell in debt to the wealthy