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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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h and south. Mostof the enormous buildings of ancient Rome which still remain are attributedto Tarquinius. In his old age, King Tarquin had two sons; but feeling that the lads weretoo young to succeed him, he selected from his servants a youth, Servius Tul-lius, pointed out to him by an omen from the gods. This youth, of unknownorigin, Tarquin trained as his confidential assistant. Now we are told thatthe sons of King Ancus had all these years been hoping to regain their king-dom on the death of Tarquin. Seeing this hope fade with the rising power ofServius, they became desperate and employed assassins who slew Tarquin. Servius immediately took control of affairs. He announced that Tarquinwas not killed, but only stunned, and was recovering. The wife and servantsof Tarquin said the same. Servius exercised the duties of king, but with thepretence always that Tarquin bade him do so. On every important matter heleft the judgment hall and went ostentatiously to consult his wounded master.
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Rome—Patrician and Plebeian 305 When at last the true state of things leaked out, Servius was secure upon thethrone; the people readily accepted him as their ruler; and the sons of Ancusabandoned the city in despair. With the reign of Servius a new class division comes into the story. Hispeople are separated into the rich patriciajis and the ^oox plebeians. The quar-rels between these two orders make up much of the history of early Rome.The patricians seem to have been the first inhabitants of the city, who alonehad the full rights of citizenship, and could vote at the public assemblies.The plebeians were the strangers who, never having been admitted as citizens,did not share in the divisions of the public wealth, which were the spoils of somany successful wars. The plebeians had thus small chance of growing rich.In later years they gradually acquired all the rights of citizens, so that theoriginal distinction between the two classes disappeared. The names, how-ever, continued in us

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