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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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o an agricultural people. All their gods had moreor less to do with farm life. Saturn, the chief god, was the maker of allpeaceful and useful inventions. He taught men to gather their grain, mowtheir hay, and trim their fruit-trees. There was a great festival held at har-vest time in honor of Ceres, the goddess of harvests. Numa sought also toteach the people the worship of the goddess Fides or Faith, that is, he tried tomake them honorable and faithful; and ever afterward the Romans were par-ticularly proud of possessing this quality. It was their boast that they neverbroke their plighted word. The one building that we are told Numa erectedis his temple to Fides. After Numas death it was the turn of the Sabines to choose a king fromamong the Romans. They conferred the honor on Tullus Hostilius, whoproved a warlike king and also a most generous one. Instead of building him-self fine palaces, he lived as simply as any of his subjects, distributing almostall his property among the poor.
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Rome—The Early Kings 303 Under him another race descended from the Trojan ^Eneas was added tothe many differing peoples that made up Rome. Tullus declared war againstAlba Longa, the long, white cliff city, where Romulus and Remus had beenborn. Realizing that the fierce armies of these two kindred races would almostexterminate each other, their leaders came to an agreement by which the warwas to be decided by a combat between si.x picked warriors, three from eachside. The selected champions were typical of the fratricidal character of thewar. Three brothers, the Horatii, or members of the family of Horatius, rep-resented Rome, and three brothers, the Curiatii, old friends of their antagonists—one of them about to marry a Horatian maiden—fought for the Albans. Inthe combat, two of the Romans were killed, while all three of the Curiatii werewounded. The remaining Horatius then displayed the craft which alwaysmingled with the courage of the Romans. He pretended flight. The threewoun

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