The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic | Page 2

--Ancus Martius king--The wooden bridge.
III.
HOW CORINTH GAVE ROME A NEW DYNASTY
Magna Gr?cia--Cypselus, the democratic politician--Demaratus goes to Tarquinii--Etruscan relics--Lucomo's cap lifted--Lucomo changes his name--A Greek king of Rome--A circus and other great public works--A light around a boy's head--Servius Tullius king--How the kingdom passed from the Etruscan dynasty.
IV.
THE RISE OF THE COMMONS
A king of the plebeians--A league with Latin cities--A census taken-- The Seven Hills--Classes formed among the people--Assemblies of the people--How ace means one--Heads of the people--Armor of the different classes--A Lustration or _Suovetaurilia_--What is a lustrum?-- Servius divides certain lands--A wicked husband and a naughty wife-- King Servius killed--Sprinkled with a father's blood.
V.
HOW A PROUD KING FELL
A tyrant king--The mysterious Sibyl of Cum? comes to sell books--The head found on the Capitoline--A serpent frightens a king--A serious inquiry sent to Delphi--A hollow stick filled with gold helps a young man--A good wife spinning--A terrible oath--The Tarquins banished--A republic takes the place of the kingdom--The first of the long line of consuls--The good Valerius--The god Silvanus cries out to some effect-- Lars Porsena of Clusium and what he tried to do--Horatius the brave-- Rome loses land--A dictator appointed--Castor and Pollux help the army at Lake Regillus--Caius Marcius wins a crown--Appius Claudius comes to town.
VI.
THE ROMAN RUNNYMEDE
The character of the Romans--Traits of the kings--Insignificance of Latin territory--Occupations--Art backward--A narrow religion--Who were the _populus Romanus?_--Patricians oppress the people--Wrongs of Roman money-lending--How a debtor flaunted his rags to good purpose-- Appius Claudius defied--A secession to the Anio--Apologue of the body and its members--Laws of Valerius re-affirmed--Tribunes of the people appointed--Peace by the treaty of the Sacred Mount.
VII.
HOW THE HEROES FOUGHT FOR A HUNDRED YEARS
Coriolanus fights bravely--He enrages the plebeians--Women melt the strong man's heart--Plebeians gain ground--Agrarian laws begin to be made--Cassius, who makes the first, undermined--The family of the Fabii support the commons--A black day on the Cremara--Cincinnatus called from his plow--The ?quians subjugated--What a conquest meant in those days--The Aventine Hill given to the commons--The ten men make ten laws and afterwards twelve--The ten men become arrogant--How Virginia was killed--Appius Claudius cursed--The second secession of the plebeians-- The third secession--The commons make gains--Censors chosen--The wonderful siege of Veii--How a tunnel brings victory--Camillus the second founder of Rome--How the territory was increased, but ill omens threaten.
VIII.
A BLAST FROM BEYOND THE NORTH WIND
What the Greeks thought when they shivered--A warlike people come into notice--Brennus leads the barbarians to victory--A voice from the temple of Vesta--Tearful Allia--The city alarmed and Camillus called for--How the sacred geese chattered to a purpose--Brennus successful, but defeated at last--A historical game of scandal--Camillus sets to work to make a new city--Camillus honored as the second founder of Rome--Manlius less fortunate--Poor debtors protected by a law of Stolo --A plague comes to Rome, and priests order stage-plays to be performed--The floods of the Tiber come into the circus.
IX.
HOW THE REPUBLIC OVERCAME ITS NEIGHBORS
Alexander the Great strides over Persia--Suppose he had attacked Rome? --The man with a chain, and the man helped by a crow--How the Samnites came into Campania--The memorable battle of Mount Gaurus--How Carthage thought best to congratulate Rome--Debts become heavy again--How Decius Mus sacrificed himself for the army--Misfortune at the Caudine Forks--A general muddle, in which another Mus sacrifices himself--Another secession of the commons--An agrarian law and an abolition of debts-- What the wild waves washed up--Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, takes a lofty model--How Cineas asked hard questions--Blind Appius Claudius stirs up the people--Maleventum gets a better name--Ptolemy Philadelphus thinks best to congratulate Rome--How the Romans made roads--The classes of citizens.
X.
AN AFRICAN SIROCCO
How an old Bible city sent out a colony--Carthage attends strictly to its own business--Sicily a convenient place for a great fight--The Mamertines not far from Scylla and Charybdis--Ancient war-vessels and how they were rowed--The prestige of Carthage on the water destroyed-- Xanthippus the Spartan helps the Carthaginians--The horrible fate of noble Regulus--Hamilcar, the man of lightning, comes to view--Gates of the temple of Janus closed the second time--A perfidious queen overthrown--Two Gauls and two Greeks buried alive--Hannibal hates Rome --Rome and Carthage fight the second time--Scipio and Fabius the Delayer fight for Rome--Hannibal crosses the Alps--The terrible rout at Lake Trasimenus--A business man beaten--Syracuse falls and Archimedes dies--Fabius takes Tarentum--A great victory at the Metaurus--War carried to Africa and closed at Zama--Hannibal a wanderer.
XI.
THE NEW PUSHES THE OLD--WARS AND CONQUESTS
Tumultuous women stir up the city--What the Oppian Law forbade--Cato the Stern opposes the women--The women find a valorous champion--How did the matrons establish their high character?--Two parties look at the growing influence of ideas from Greece--What were those influences?--How Rome coveted Eastern conquests--How Flamininus fought at the Dog-heads--How the Grecians cried for joy at the Isthmian games --Great battles at Thermopyl? and Magnesia, and their results-- Philopoemen, Hannibal, and Scipio die--The battle of Pydna marks an era--Greece despoiled of its works of art--Cato wishes