The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman
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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-- |
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