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

duel between two hills--Two men named Curtius--Women
interfere for peace--Where did Romulus go?--Society divided by
Romulus--Numa Pompilius chosen king-- Laws of religion given the
people--Guilds established--The year divided into months--Tullus
Hostilius king--Six brothers fight--Horatia killed --Ancus Martius
king--The wooden bridge.
III.
HOW CORINTH GAVE ROME A NEW DYNASTY
Magna Græcia--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 Cumæ 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 Æquians 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