fall their weapons. 16.  An accommodation ensued, by which it was agreed, that Rom’ulus and Ta’tius should reign jointly in Rome, with equal power and prerogative; that a hundred Sab’ines should be admitted into the senate; that the city should retain its former name, but the citizens, should be called Qui’rites, after Cu’res, the principal town of the Sab’ines; and that both nations being thus united, such of the Sab’ines as chose it, should be admitted to live in and enjoy all the privileges of citizens of Rome. 17.  The conquest of Came’ria was the only military achievement under the two kings, and Ta’tius was killed about five years after by the Lavin’ians, for having protected some of his servants who had plundered them and slain their ambassadors; so that, by this accident, Rom’ulus once more saw himself sole monarch of Rome. 18.  Soon after the death of Ta’tius, a cruel plague and famine having broken out at Rome, the Camerini embraced the opportunity to lay waste the Roman territory.  But Rom’ulus gave them battle, killed six thousand on the spot, and returned in triumph to Rome.  He took likewise Fidenae, a city about forty furlongs distant from his capital, and reduced the Veien’tes to submission.

19.  Successes like these produced an equal share of pride in the conqueror.  From being contented with those limits which had been wisely assigned to his power, he began to affect absolute sway, and to controul those laws to which he had himself formerly professed implicit obedience.  The senate was particularly displeased at his conduct, as they found themselves used only as instruments to ratify the rigour of his commands. 20.  We are not told the precise manner which they employed to get rid of the tyrant.  Some say that he was torn in pieces in the senate-house; others, that he disappeared while reviewing his army; certain it is, that, from the secrecy of the fact, and the concealment of the body, they took occasion to persuade the multitude that he was taken up into heaven; thus, him whom they could not bear as a king, they were contented to worship as a god.  Rom’ulus reigned thirty-seven years; and, after his death, had a temple built to him, under the name of Quiri’nus.

Questions for Examination.

1.  What were the first proceedings of the rude inhabitants of Rome?

2.  Of whom was the senate composed?

3.  Who were the patricians?

4.  Who were the plebeians?

5.  What was the first care of the new king?  In what did the Religion of Rome consist?

6.  What were the laws between husband and wife, and between parents and children?

7.  What were the regulations directed by Romulus?

8.  What was the result of these regulations?

9.  What conduct did Romulus adopt in consequence?

10.  What treatment did the Sabines experience?

11.  Did they tamely acquiesce in this outrage?

12.  Who undertook to revenge the disgrace of the Sabines?