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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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Rome—The Ancient City 309 rally steeper, higher, and more rocky than the Palatine, was made by Romanart a fortress utterly impregnable to assault. Gunpowder was unknown, andstarvation was the only weapon the defenders had to fear. It is worth while to keep in mind the location of these places, because be-tween the two hills, in the valley which the Cloaca Ma.xima had drained, stoodthe Roman Forum, the broad paved square in which the public assemblies wereheld, and in which originated most of the famous events of which we are nowto tell.
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Je^klry of Roman Women ^^^ ^sS- IXVASIOX OF THE GaULS Chapter XXIX THE YOUNG REPUBLIC CONQUERS ITALY ;?N their fall the Tarquins dragged down with them themilitary power and empire of early Rome. They werenot the men to submit tamely to humiliation, and thesuddenly created republic, which Brutus and his friendsfound on their hands, had to face sore dangers. The people chose two Co;isu/s, as they were called,to govern them each year. Brutus and Tarquin Col-latinus were the first of these; but the people so hated the veryname of Tarquin that presently they begged Collatinus, for hisnames sake, to leave their city. This he did with a long trainof his followers and servants. A similar train had doubtless leftwith the king; and thus the city was weakened by the loss ofmuch of its best fighting stock. Nor were those who remained united in support of the newgovernment. Tarquin had hushed the quarrel between patricianand plebeian by trampling upon them both. Brutus and his nextassociate, Vale

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