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Hortensius

1. Q. Hortensius, tribunus plebis, B. C. 419. He indicted C. Sempronius, consul of the year before, for ill conduct of the Volscian war, but dropped his accusation at the instance of four of his colleagues. (Liv. 4.42; cf. V. Max. 6.5. 2.)

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