A History of Rome - 1879 Author:Henry George Liddell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m mm Wolf of the CapitoL BOOK I. ROME UNDER THE KINGS. CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF ROME : ROMULUS AND NUMA. § 1. Belief of the Romans that they were s... more »prung from the East. § 2. Legend of Eneas. § 3. Legend of Ascauius. §. 4. Legend of Rea Silvia, and birth of the Twins. § 5. Legend of recognition of Twins by Numitor. § 6. Legend of the quarrel of Romulus and Remus. Variations in Legends. § 1. Romulus founds Rome. Uncertainty of dates. § 8. Asylum. Rape of Sabines. § 9. "War with Sabiues. Legends of Tarpeia, of Janus, of Sabine women. § 10. Peace between Romans and Sabines. Romulus And Titus Tatius Joint Kings. § 11. Legend of Caeles Vibenna and Etruscan settlers at Rome. Four of Seven Hills now occupied. § 12. Death of Titus Tatius. Reign and death of Romulus. § 13. Institutions attributed to Romulus: (1) Social; (2) Political; (3) Military. § 14. Interregnum: Numa Pompilius, a Sabine, second king of Rome. § 15. Religious institutions attributed to Numa. § 16. His love of agriculture. § 17. Other institutions. § 1. It was the pride of the Romans to believe that they were descended from the ancient nations to the East of the Mediterranean Sea. All their early legends point to Greece and Troy. How far the Pelasgian origin of the nation may account for this belief may be conjectured, but cannot be determined. It may, however, be assumed that the Arcadian Evander and his followers, whom the legends represent as the first settlers on the Palatine Hill, were Pelasgians; and it is more than probable that. the Trojan Eneas and his followers, who are believed to have coalesced with the Arcadians of the Palatine, were likewise Pelasgians. With this preface we proceed to the Legends themselves. § 2. Virgil has told the tale of the flight of JEneas, and everyone knows how he e...« less