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Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and second founder of the state ; and Tarquinius Superbus,the haughty tyrant, whose oppressions led to the abolition by thepeople of the office of king. The traditions of the doings of these monarchs and of whathappened to them, blend hopelessly fact and fable. We caimotbe quite sure even as to the names. Respecting Roman affairs,however, under the last three rulers (the Tarquins), who were ofEtruscan origin, some important things are related, the substantial 226 THE ROMAN KINGDOM. truth of which we may rely upon with a fair degree of cer-tainty; and these matters we shall notice in the following para-graphs. Growth of Rome under the Tarquins. —The Tarquins extendedtheir authority over the whole of Latium. The position of suprem-acy thus given Rome was naturally attended by the rapid growthin population and importance of the little Palatine city. The orig-inal walls soon became too strait for the increasing multitudes;new ramparts were built — tradition says under the direction of
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VIEW OF THE CAPITOLINE, WITH THE CLOACA MAXIMA; (A Reconstruction.) the king Servius Tullius — which, with a great circuit of sevenmiles, swept around the entire cluster of the Seven Hills. A largetract of marshy ground between the Palatine and Capitoline hillswas drained by means of the Cloaca Maxima, the Great Sewer,which was so admirably constructed that it has been preserved tothe present day. It still discharges its waters through a great archinto the Tiber. The land thus reclaimed became the Forum, theassembling-place of the people. Upon the summit of the Capito- THE NEW CONSTITUTION. Ill line Hill, overlooking the Forum, was built the famous sanctuarycalled the Capitol, or the Capitoline temple, where beneath thesame roof were the shrines of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, thethree great national deities. Upon the level ground betweenthe Aventine and the Palatine was laid out the Circus Maximus,the Great Circus, where were celebrated the Roman games. New Constitution of Servins T

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