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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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chieftain, in orderto increase this amount, threw his sword intothe opposite side of the balance, exclaiming ashe did so, Woe to the vanquished ! At thismoment of desperation, however, Camillus ar-rived, and stopped the whole proceeding withthe declaration that the Romans, having a dic-tator, could make no treaty without his con-.sent. He seized the mon< y wlii<h was aboutto be paid to the Gauls, and bade detiance toBreuuus aud his host. The latter shrank froma renewal of the encounter, and retired fromthe city. They were pursued and routed byCamillus before they escajicd from Latium. Such is the popular tradition, embellished,no doubt, with much poetic fiction, of the pil-lage and capture of Rome by the Gauls. Frommany circumstances, it appears certain thatthe city was once for a season in the power ofthese barbarians. There are also good groundsfir believing that they were preseufly drivenout of the country. Nor is it unreasonable to VMVERSAL IIlST<)liY.~THE AyCIKNT WORLD.
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ROME PLUNDERED BY THE GAULS. ROMK. — KARLY AX^ALS. accept the story that Camillas c:lf;i(isitiil in iW-vaults of the Capitcil, as a >ariv.l r. .M^veagainst a iios>il)le repetition nf iIh invasion,the gold whieh he recovered tmni tlie l.arha-riaus. In the times of Julias C:t>;ir >a(li areserve-fund still exi-ted, ami iHijuHar lirlirfassociated the same with the dcpu.-it inade hyCamillus. There is little doul.t, thm, ihatabout the beginning of the fmrlli crntaiv li.C, the harhariaus of the Xorth t.n.k ami plun-dered the Eternal City —a feat whieh theircountrymen were not destined tn repeat formore than eight hundred years. The fiite of the two priueipal aelui-s in thedrama. l>y whieh Rome was sd urarly cxtin- notice. ^lanlius, the defender of the Capitol,as nearly always happened with those whobecame the Ijeuefactorsof the people, fell underthe liau ..f the patricians. On a .Trtain occa-sion he saw a debtor, one who had brcn a bravecenturion, liorne away to jjrison to

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