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ONCE UPON A TIME
The old king at Troy--Paris, the wayward youth--Helen carried off--The war of ten years--AEneas, son of Anchises, goes to Italy--His death-- Fact and fiction in early stories--How Milton wrote about early England--How AEneas was connected with England--Virgil writes about AEneas--How Livy wrote about AEneas--Was AEneas a son of Venus?--Italy, as AEneas would have seen it--Greeks in Italy--How Evander came from Arcadia--How AEneas died--Thirty cities rise--Twins and a she-wolf-- Trojan names in Italy--How the Romans named their children and themselves.
HOW THE SHEPHERDS BEGAN THE CITY
Augury resorted to--Romulus and Remus on two hills--Vultures determine a question--Pales, god of the shepherds--Beginning the city--Celer killed--An asylum--Bachelors want wives--A game of wife-snatching-- Sabines wish their daughters back--Tarpeia on the hill--A 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.
HOW CORINTH GAVE ROME A NEW DYNASTY
Magna Graecia--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.
THE RISE OF THE COMMONS
HOW A PROUD KING FELL
A tyrant king--The mysterious Sibyl of Cumae 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.
THE ROMAN RUNNYMEDE
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 AEquians 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.
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