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Original Copyright 1904 by Charles Morris. 2 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA ........................................... 92 TABLE OF CONTENTS AN IMPERIAL MONSTER............................................... 96 THE MURDER OF AN EMPRESS ..................................... 99 HOW ROME WAS FOUNDED .......................................... 4 BOADICEA, THE HEROINE OF BRITAIN ...................... 102 THE SABINE VIRGINS ..................................................... 7 ROME SWEPT BY FLAMES .......................................... 104 THE HORATIII AND CURIATII ...................................... 10 THE DOOM OF NERO .................................................. 107 THE DYNASTY OF THE TARQUINS ................................ 11 THE SPORTS OF THE AMPHITHEATRE ....................... 111 THE BOOKS OF THE SIBYL ........................................... 14 THE REIGN OF A GLUTTON ........................................ 115 THE STORY OF LUCRETIA ............................................ 15 THE FAITHFUL EPONINA ............................................ 118 HOW BRAVE HORATIUS KEPT THE BRIDGE ............... 18 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM ........................................ 120 THE BATTLE OF LAKE REGILLUS ................................ 21 THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII ................................ 124 THE REVOLT OF THE PEOPLE ...................................... 23 AN IMPERIAL SAVAGE ................................................ 127 THE REVENGE OF CORIOLANUS .................................. 25 THE DEEDS OF CONSTANTINE .................................... 131 Cincinnatus and the Aequians................................... 28 THE GOTHS CROSS THE DANUBE .............................. 133 THE SACRIFICE OF VIRGINIA ...................................... 31 THE DOWNFALL OF ROME ......................................... 136 CAMILLUS AT THE SEIGE OF VEII ................................ 36 THE GAULS AT ROME .................................................. 38 THE CURTIAN GULF ..................................................... 42 ANECDOTES OF THE LATIN AND SAMNITE WARS ....... 44 THE CAUDINE FORKS ................................................... 47 THE FATE OF REGULUS ............................................... 51 HANNIBAL CROSSES THE ALPS .................................... 54 HOW HANNIBAL FOUGHT AND DIED ........................... 58 ARCHIMEDES AT THE SIEGE OF SYRACUSE ................. 61 THE FATE OF CARTHAGE ............................................ 64 THE GRACCHI AND THEIR FALL ................................. 67 JUGURTHA, THE PURCHASER OF ROME ...................... 70 THE EXILE AND REVENGE OF MARIUS ........................ 73 THE PROSCRIPTION OF SULLA .................................... 77 THE REVOLT OF THE GLADIATORS ............................. 80 Original Copyright 1904 by Charles Morris. 3 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 CHAPTER I swept ashore where the river had overflown its banks at the foot of the afterwards famous Palatine Hill. Here the cradle was overturned near the roots of a wild fig-tree, and the infants HOW ROME WAS FOUNDED left at the edge of the shallow waters. Very far back in time, more than twenty-six hundred What follows sounds still more like fable. A she-wolf years ago, on the banks of a small Italian river, known as the that came to the water to drink chanced to see the helpless Tiber, were laid the foundations of a city which was in time to children, and carried them to her cave, where she fed them become the conqueror of the civilized world. Of the early days with her milk. As they grew older a woodpecker brought them of this renowned city of Rome we know very little. What is food, flying in and out of the cave. At length Faustulus, a called its history is really only legend,—stories invented by herdsman of the king, found these lusty infants in the wolf's poets, or ancient facts which became gradually changed into den, took them home, and gave them to his wife Laurentia to romances. The Romans believed them, but that is no reason bring up with her own children. He gave them the names of why we should. They believed many things which we doubt. Romulus and Remus. And yet these romantic stories are the only existing Years went by, and the river waifs grew to be strong, foundation-stones of actual Roman history, and we can do no handsome, and brave young men. They became leaders among better than give them for what little kernel of fact they may the shepherds and herdsmen, and helped them to fight the wild contain. animals that troubled their flocks. Their home was on the In our tales from Greek history it has been told how the Palatine Hill, and the cattle and sheep for which they cared city of Troy was destroyed, and how Æneas, one of its warrior were those of the wicked king Amulius. Near by was another chiefs, escaped. After many adventures this fugitive Trojan hill, called the Aventine, and on this the deposed king Numitor prince reached Italy and founded there a new kingdom. His fed his flocks. In course of time a quarrel arose between the son Ascanius afterwards built the city of Alba Longa (the long herdsmen on the two hills, and Numitor's men, having laid an white city) not far from the site of the later city of Rome. ambush, took Remus prisoner and carried him to Alba, where Three hundred years passed away, many kings came and went, their master dwelt. This no sooner became known to Romulus and then Numitor, a descendant of Æneas, came to the throne. than he gathered the young men of the Palatine Hill, and set But Numitor had an ambitious brother, Amulius, who robbed out in all haste to the rescue of his brother. him of his crown, and, while letting him live, killed his only Meanwhile, Remus had been taken before Numitor, son and shut up his daughter Silvia in the temple of the who gazed on him with surprise. His face and bearing were goddess Vesta, to guard the ever-burning fire of that deity. rather those of a prince than of a shepherd, and there was Here Silvia had twin sons, whose father was said, in something in his aspect familiar to the old king. Numitor the old superstitious fashion, to be Mars, the God of War. The questioned him closely, and Remus told him the story of the usurper, fearing that these sons of Mars might grow up and river, the wolf, and the herdsman. Numitor listened intently. deprive him of his throne, ordered that they and their mother The story took him back to the day, many years before, when should be flung into the Tiber, then swollen with recent rains. his daughter Silvia and her twin sons had been thrown into the The mother was drowned, but destiny, or Mars, preserved the swollen stream. Could the children have escaped? Could this sons. Borne onward in their basket cradle, they were at length Original Copyright 1904 by Charles Morris. 4 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 handsome youth be his grandson? It must be so, for his age sent to Romulus, but he capped the story with a better one, and his story agreed. saying that twelve vultures had just passed over his hill. But while they talked, Romulus and his followers reached the city, and, being forbidden entrance, made an assault on the gates. In the conflict that ensued Amulius took part and was killed, and thus Numitor and his daughter were at last revenged.