In the period under discussion, 449-287, a single effort to hold the plebeian tribunes responsible for their official conduct is reported. In 293 two retired tribunes were condemned to a fine of 10,000 asses each on a charge of having favored the patres by interceding against the proposals of colleagues.[1751] This instance, if historical, is the only one of the kind before the revolution. The tribunes doubtless felt that the prosecution of their predecessors rendered their own future unsafe. Several attempts were also made by legislation to reach results equivalent to judicial sentences. In spite of the prohibition of privilegia by a law of the Twelve Tables, Sp. Maelius, a tribune of the plebs in 436, tried to carry a resolution for the confiscation of the property of Servilius Ahala; but the people rejected it.[1752] Another privilegium was the resolution of the plebs of 368 which threatened M. Furius Camillus with a fine of 500,000 asses, should he use his dictatorship to obstruct the Licinian-Sextian bills then under discussion.[1753] It was certainly not supported by a senatus consultum, and probably the proposers had no serious intention of carrying it into effect. In reviewing the finable actions alleged to have been brought by the plebeian tribunes during the two centuries which intervened between the institution of their office and the Hortensian legislation, as in the case of the capital actions,[1754] we are struck by the relatively small number belonging to the latter part of the period; in fact to the time following 362 two cases only are assigned, one of which is insignificant. The conclusion we must draw from this fact is similar to that expressed with relation to the capital cases—that the finable actions attributed to the earlier period are in all probability largely unhistorical, and that before the enactment of the Hortensian law the jurisdiction of the tribunes in finable cases was limited and rare. _b._ AEDILICIAN