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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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tracing their descent back to the Trojan prince yEneas. They were proud-of their military prowess, as is repeatedly shown in the legend of Romulus.He was the son of Mars, thus making the whole race of Romans what theydelighted to call themselves, the Children of the War-god. He was nour-ished by a wolf, and thus his race became the strong and savage wolves of war.He slew his brother for insulting Rome; and his people placed the luve of thecity, or patriotism, above all ties of famil)-. Romulus is the typical figure ofwhat all Romans strove to be. The city which he built stood on what is now called the Palatine Hill (MonsPalatinus), a steep and rocky mound rising abruptly amid a group of others fromthe broad, flat plain around them. It was one of these other hills on whichRemus had wished to build. In time the city covered them all, one of itsfamous names being the City of the Seven Hills. The first settlement,however, was on the Palatine. The river Tiber— Father Tiber, as the Romans
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THE FINDING OF ROMULUS AND REMUS Rome—Romulus and the Sabines 299 called it—ran past the foot of the mount. It was a turbulent, varying stream,shrinking to a mere creek in the summer drought, but roaring and raging inthe spring-time, flooding the low valleys between the hills, and then, as it sankagain, leaving its waters to stagnate in the hollows and form pestilent, fever-breeding marshes. There was not much in this stubborn rock and feverous marsh to attractstrangers to the new city. So Romulus, to increase the number and power ofhis people, proclaimed that within its walls there should be an asylum; andthat he would protect the lives of all who fled thither from their enemies, no•matter what they had done. As a consequence, criminals, rebels, escaped•slaves, and all manner of desperate and hunted outlaws must have flocked tohim. His city grew strong in men; but it lacked women. Naturally the peo-ple of neighboring cities had no desire to marry their daughters to those wild

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