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Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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nud him king to the exclusion ofthe sons of the old j)rince. The new king cmltidlished Eome, enlarged its territory andundertook the encircling of the town with a wall which was Huishedby Servius. The Forum, drained aud surrounded by porticos, Avasused for the gatherings and pleasures of the people. The Capitolwas begun, and the Circus levelled for the shows and GreatGames lirouglit from Etruria. But the most considerable of theseworks were the subterranean sewers which to the i)reseut day sup-port a great part of Eome, notwithstanding eartlupiaktS, and inspite of the weight of edifices a hundred tinus rebnilt ovir theirvaidtiug. For such Avorks, ^\\n(■h have not tlu majestic uselessncss In cniiseqiK-nro of tlip raising nf the bcfl of tlie Titier, pei-hap.! also of the lieifflit of waters attlie time when tbedrawiiiff was taken,only tlielo)) of the sewer is .seen in ourenfiraviiifron page;J1. This construction astonished the coiiliMiiiioraries of Aiinnstns by its size and the amount
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TRADITIllXAI, HISToKY OV THE KINGS, 33 of E,2;yiitian constructions, it Mas, doubtless, necessary to submit thepeople to painful dnuloery, and the treasury to euornious expense:hut Tarquin provided for it out of the phnuler taken from theSabines and Latins in successful wars, which .gained for him thelands comprised between the Tiber, the Anio and the Sabiuemountains: it was the territory of CoUatia. Livv, in relatingthis conquest, has prcser^-ed for us the form madi- use of in allthe capitulations imposed by the Eomans: Tarcpiin, addressing thedeputies, asked them: Are you the deputies sent liy the Colla-tiau i>eoplo, to put yourselves and the people of Collatia in mvIjower?—Yes.—Are the people of Collatia free to dispose ofit?—Yes.—Do you sul)mit to nu^ and to the Roman peoj^leyourselves, the people of Collatia, the town, the country, thewaters, the frontiers, the temples, the moveable property an<l inshort, everything divine and human?—Yes.— NVell, I acceptin my o

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