Much had been ventilated in private discourse, and the people (for
the nation was yet divided into parties that had not lost their
animosities), being troubled, bent their eyes upon the Senate,
when after some time spent in devotion, and the solemn action of
thanksgiving, his Excellency Navarchus de Paralo in the tribe of Dorean,
lord strategus of Oceana (though in a new commonwealth a very prudent
magistrate) proposed his part or opinion in such a manner to the Council
of State, that, passing the ballot of the same with great unanimity
and applause, it was introduced into the Senate, where it passed with
greater. Wherefore the decree being forthwith printed and published,
copies were returned by the secretaries to the phylarchs (which is the
manner of promulgation) and the commissioners of the seal, that is
to say, the Right Honorable Phosphorus de Auge in the tribe of Eudia,
Dolabella d’Enyo in the tribe of Turmae, and Linceus de Stella in the
tribe of Nubia, being elected proposers pro tempore, bespoke of the
tribunes a muster of the people to be held that day six weeks, which was
the time allowed for promulgation at the halo.
The satisfaction which the people throughout the tribes received upon
promulgation of the decree, loaded the carriers with weekly letters
between friend and friend, whether magistrates or private persons. But
the day for proposition being come, and the prerogative upon the place
appointed in discipline, Sanguine de Ringwood in the tribe of Saltum,
captain of the Phoenix, marched by order of the tribunes with his troop
to the piazza of the Pantheon, where his trumpets, entering into the
great hall, by their blazon gave notice of his arrival; at which the
sergeant of the house came down, and returning, in formed the proposers,
who descending, were received at the foot of the stairs by the captain,
and attended to the coaches of state, with which Calcar de Gilvo in
the tribe of Phalera, master of the horse, and the ballotins upon their
great horses, stood waiting at the gate.
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