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753-716. Reign of Romulus 9 Asylum 10 Rape of Sabines 10 War with
Sabines 10 Tarpeia 10 Sabine women 10 Joint reign of Romulus and
Titus Tatius 11 Death of Titus Tatius 11 Sole reign of Romulus 11
Death of Romulus 11 Institutions ascribed to Romulus 12 Patricians &
Clients 12 Three tribes--Ramnes, Tities, Luceres 12 Thirty Curiæ 12
Three Hundred Gentes 12 Comitia Curiata 12 The Senate 12 The Army
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716-673. Reign of Numa Pompilius 12 Institutions ascribed to Numa
Pompilius 12 Pontiffs 12 Augurs 13 Flamens 13 Vestal Virgins 13 Salii
13 Temple of Janus 13
673-641. Reign of Tullus Hostilius 13 War with Alba Longa 13 Battle
of the Horatii and Curiatii 13 War with the Etruscans 14 Punishment of
Mettius Fuffetius, Dictator of Alba Longa 14 Destruction of Alba
Longa 14 Removal of its inhabitants to Rome 14 Origin of the Roman
Plebs 14 Death of Tullus Hostilius 14
640-616. Reign of Ancus Marcius 14 War with the Latins 14 Increase

of the Plebs 15 Ostia 15 Janiculum 15 Pons Sublicius 15 Death of
Ancus Marcius 15
CHAPTER III.
THE LAST THREE KINGS OF ROME, AND THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUBLIC DOWN TO THE BATTLE
OF THE LAKE REGILLUS. B.C. 616-498.
616-578. Reign of Tarquinius Priscus 16 His early history 16 His
removal to Rome 16 Becomes king 16 His wars 16 The Cloacæ 16
Circus Maximus 17 Increase of the Senate 17 Increase of the Equites
17 Attus Navius 17 Increase of the Vestal Virgins 17 Early history of
Servius Tullius 17 Death of Tarquinius Priscus 18
578-534. Reign of Servius Tullius 18 I. Reform of the Roman
Constitution 18 1. Division of the Roman territory into Thirty Tribes 18
2. Comitia Centuriata 18 Census 18 Five Classes 19 The Equites 19
Number of the Centuries 19 Three sovereign assemblies--Comitia
Centuriata, Comitia Curiata, Comitia Tributa 20 II. Increase of the city:
walls of Servius Tullius 20 III. Alliance with the Latins 20 Death of
Servius Tullius 22
534-510. Reign of Tarquinius Superbus 22 His tyranny 22 His alliance
with the Latins 23 His war with the Volscians 23 Foundation of the
temple on the Capitoline Hill 23 The Sibylline books 23 Legend of the
Sibyl 23 Capture of Gabii 23 King's sons and Brutus sent to consult the
oracle at Delphi 23 Lucretia 24 Expulsion of the Tarquins 25
509. Establishment of the Republic 25
The Consuls 25
First attempt to restore the Tarquins 25 Execution of the sons of Brutus
25 War of the Etruscans with Rome 26 Death of Brutus 26 Defeat of
the Etruscans 26
Valerius Publicola 26

Dedication of the Capitoline Temple by M. Horatius 26
508. Second attempt to restore the Tarquins 26 Lars Porsena 26
Horatius Cocles 26 Mucius Scævola 27 Cloelia 27
498. Third attempt to restore the Tarquins 28 War with the Latins 28
Battle of the Lake Regillus 28
496. Death of Tarquinius Superbus 28
CHAPTER IV.
FROM THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS TO THE
DECEMVIRATE. B.C. 498-451.
Struggles between the Patricians and Plebeians 29
Ascendency of the Patricians 29
Sufferings of the Plebeians 30
Law of debtor and creditor 30
Ager Publicus 30
Object of the Plebeians to obtain a share in the political power and in
the public land 30
494. Secession to the Sacred Mount 30 Fable of Menenius Agrippa 31
Institution of the Tribunes of the Plebs 31
486. Agrarian Law of Sp. Cassius 31
Foreign wars 32 488. I. Coriolanus and the Volscians 32 477. II. The
Fabia Gens and the Veientines 33 458. III. Cincinnatus and the
Æquians 34
League between the Romans, Latins, and Hernicans 35

CHAPTER V.
THE DECEMVIRATE. B.C. 451-449.
471. Publilian Law transferring the election of the Tribunes from the
Comitia of Centuries to those of the Tribes 36
462. Proposal of the Tribune Terentilius Arsa for the appointment of
Decemviri 37
460. Seizure of the Capitol by Herdonius the Sabine 37
454. Appointment of three Commissioners to visit Greece 37
452. Their return to Rome 37
451. Appointment of the Decemviri 37 The Ten Tables 37
450. New Decemviri appointed 37 Their tyranny 38 Two new Tables
added, making twelve in all 38
449. The Decemviri continue in office 38 Death of Sicinius Dentatus
38 Death of Virginia 39
Second secession to the Sacred Mount 39 Resignation of the Decemvirs
39 Election of ten Tribunes 40
Valerian and Horatian Laws 40
Death of Appius Claudius 40
The Twelve Tables 40
CHAPTER VI.
FROM THE DECEMVIRATE TO THE CAPTURE OF ROME BY
THE GAULS. B.C. 448-390.
445. Third secession to the Sacred Mount 41 Lex Canuleia for

intermarriage between the two orders 41 Institution of Military
Tribunes with consular powers 41
443. Institution of the Censorship 41
421. Quæstorship thrown open to the Plebeians 42
440. Famine