Apud C. quoque Flaminium auctoritas patria aeque potens fuit: nam cum tribunus plebis legem de Gallico agro viritim dividendo invito et repugnante senatu promulgasset, precibus minisque eius acerrime resistens ac ne exercitu quidem adversum se conscripto, si in eadem sententia perseveraret, absterritus, postquam pro rostris ei legem iam referenti pater manum iniecit, privato fractus imperio descendit e rostris, ne minimo quidem murmure destitutae contionis reprehensus.
With C. Flaminius too parental authority was equally potent. As Tribune of the Plebs he had promulgated a law to distribute the Gallic territory individually against the will and resistance of the senate, vehemently opposing its entreaties and threats and undeterred even by the levying of an army against him should he persist in the same purpose. But when his father placed a hand on him as he was already on the rostra putting the law to vote, overborne by private authority he came down from the platform. Nor did the assembly which he left in the lurch censure him by even the slightest murmur.
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