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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Guichard's business about the King has been miscellaneous, not worth mention hitherto; but to appearance was well done. 'A dexterous man, that Quintus Icilius the Centurion! observed Friedrich. 'Ah, yes: but excuse me, your Majesty, his name was Quintus Caecilius, said Guichard.
However, unless the father attended on the following day, he gave notice to Icilius and to men like Icilius, that, as the framer of it, he would maintain his own law, as a decemvir, his firmness: that he would certainly not assemble the lictors of his colleagues to put down the promoters of sedition; that he would be content with his own.
The performance was brilliantly successful. Frantic applause greeted the tirades of the young Icilius.
"I do not know whether I am a good reader," he said, in some embarrassment. "I have such a sing-song, monotonous voice." "Yes, like the Silesians," said the king, "but it sounds pleasantly. You must read your fables yourself. No one else can give the proper emphasis. You must visit me soon again." "Do not forget the king's request," said Quintus Icilius, as he escorted Gellert to the door.
To this Appius, seeing that the multitude was greatly moved and were ready to break forth into open violence, made this reply: "Icilius cares not for Virginia, but being a lover of sedition and tumult, seeks an occasion for strife. Such occasion I will not give him to-day. But that he may know that I yield not to his insolence, but have regard to the rights of a father, I pronounce no sentence.
The decemvirs agreed to resign. Deputies were sent to ask what the people demanded. They replied that they wanted their tribunes and the right of appeal restored, full indemnity for all the leaders in the secession, and the punishment of their oppressors. "These decemvirs," said Icilius, "are public enemies, and we will have them die the death of such.
In the year 454, Lucius Icilius, one of the tribunes of the people, managed to have the whole of the Aventine Hill given up to them, and as it was, after the Capitoline, the strongest of all the seven, their political importance was of course increased. The chief of this body was an Appius Claudius, son of the haughty patrician of the same name, and equally as haughty as he ever was.
They set forward and are received into the camp with great joy by the people, as being their liberators beyond all doubt, both at the commencement of the disturbance and at the termination of the matter. In consideration of these things, thanks were returned to them on their arrival. Icilius speaks in the name of the people.
Then Icilius and Numitorius took up the dead body of the maiden and showed it to the people, saying much of the wickedness of him who had driven a father to do such a deed, and much also of the liberty which had been taken from them, and which, if they would only use this occasion, they might now recover.
He had betrothed his daughter to Lucius Icilius, who had been tribune, a man of spirit and of approved zeal in the interest of the people.
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