[10,56] Τοῦτο τὸ δόγμα λαβόντες οἱ δήμαρχοι προῆλθον εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ ἀναγνόντες ἐν τῷ δήμῳ πολλοὺς ἐπαίνους τῆς βουλῆς καὶ τοῦ προθέντος τὴν γνώμην Ἀππίου διεξῆλθον. ἐπεὶ δὲ κατέλαβεν ὁ τῶν ἀρχαιρεσίων καιρός, ἐκκλησίαν συναγαγόντες οἱ δήμαρχοι τούς τ´ ἀποδειχθέντας ὑπάτους ἥκειν ἠξίουν ἐμπεδώσοντας τῷ δήμῳ τὰς ὑποσχέσεις, κἀκεῖνοι παρελθόντες ἐξωμόσαντο τὰς ὑπατείας. τούτους ὁ δῆμος ἐπαινῶν τε καὶ θαυμάζων διετέλει, καὶ ἐπειδὴ τοὺς νομοθέτας ψηφοφορεῖν ἔδει πρώτους εἵλετο τῶν ἄλλων· καὶ ἀπεδείχθησαν ἐν ἀρχαιρεσίαις ὑπὸ τῆς λοχίτιδος ἐκκλησίας Ἄππιος μὲν Κλαύδιος καὶ Τίτος Γενύκιος, οὓς ἔδει εἰς τοὐπιὸν ἄρχειν ἔτος, Πόπλιος δὲ Σήστιος ὁ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ἐκεῖνον ὑπατεύων, τρεῖς δὲ οἱ κομίσαντες παρὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων τοὺς νόμους, Σπόριος Ποστόμιος καὶ Σερούιος Σολπίκιος καὶ Αὖλος Μάλλιος, εἷς δὲ τῶν ὑπατευσάντων τὸν παρελθόντα ἐνιαυτὸν Τίτος Ῥωμίλιος, ὁ τὴν ἐν τῷ δήμῳ δίκην Σικκίου κατηγορήσαντος ἁλούς, ἐπειδὴ γνώμης ἐδόκει ἄρξαι δημοτικῆς· ἐκ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων βουλευτῶν Γάιος Ἰούλιος καὶ Τίτος Οὐετούριος καὶ Πόπλιος Ὁράτιος, ἅπαντες ὑπατικοί· αἱ δὲ τῶν δημάρχων τε καὶ ἀγορανόμων καὶ ταμιῶν καὶ εἴ τινες ἦσαν ἄλλαι πάτριοι Ῥωμαίοις ἀρχαὶ κατελύθησαν.

[10,56] The tribunes, having received this decree, went to the assembly and after reading it before the populace, bestowed much praise upon the senate and upon Appius, who had proposed it. And when the time came for the election of magistrates, the tribunes called an assembly and asked the consuls-elect to come and fulfil their promises to the populace; (p355) and they, appearing, resigned their magistracy. The populace kept praising and admiring them, and when they were to vote for lawgivers, made them their first choice. Those chosen at the election by the centuriate assembly were Appius Claudius and Titus Genucius, who were to have been consuls for the following year; Publius Sestius, consul of that year; the three who had brought the laws from the Greeks, Spurius Postumius, Servius Sulpicius and Aulus Manlius; one of the consuls of the preceding year, Titus Romilius, the man who had been condemned when tried before the populace on a charge brought by Siccius and was now chosen because he was thought to have offered a motion favourable to the populace;61 and, from among the other senators, Gaius Julius, Titus Veturius and Publius Horatius, all ex-consuls. At the same time the offices of the tribunes, aediles, quaestors and any other traditional Roman magistrates were abrogated.