Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-27
Selections from Roman History
The Successors Of RoA1hius. Literal
Translation form Eutropins by c. Mac.
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After this (the year OF rule by sena-
tors), Numa Pompiius was chosen king.
He, indeed, waged 10 war; bat he WAS
not less useful to the city thaa Romulus,
for he enacted laws and established US
ages for tne Romans, who, on account OF
their habit Of waging war. were already
ceming to he thought OF as robbers and
seni-barbsrians; and he DIVIDED the
year, formerly confused without any
reckoning, into ten months, and set up
at Rome temples, and religious rites with
out number. He died by sickness 10 the
43rd year of his reign.
Tullus Hostilius succeeded him. This
man renewed the war, and conquered the
Albans, who are twelve miles from the
City of Rome. He also overcame in war
the people OF Veil and the people of Fl
danae, some Of who's are sixteen miles
from Rome, others eighteen miles; and
he enlarged the city bv annexiug the
Caelian Hill. He was burned to death
in his palace, which was struck by light
ming, when he had rsigned two and
| thirty years.
After him ARcus Martius, grandson of
Numa by his daughter, assumed SOW
ereign control. He fought against the
Latins, annexed to the city the Aventine
Hill and the Iaric1lum (Mous Aureus or
Montorio, from its sparkling sands, and
founded city on ths seacoast, near the
mouth Of the Tiber, sixteen miles from
the City OF Rome. He died by sickness
in the oath year of his reign.
Then Tarquiuius Priscus accepted the
kinEship. He doubled the number OF
senators, built the Circus at Rome, in
stituted the Roman games which remain
to our time Il. O., c. A. d. The same
/ man both conquered the Sabines and an
nexed not little of their land, which
was taken from them, to the domain of
the City of Rene, and was the frat to
ENTER the city, celebrating triumph. He
CONSTRUCTED walls and sewers and under
Eteok to build the Capitolium. He was
Eslain by the sous of ANGUS, that king
fwhom he had succeeded, In the thirty
&eighth year OF his reign.
I After him Servius Tullius, son of a
famous woman, yet a captive and slave.
fassumed the sovereignty. He, too, sub
{ dued the Sakines and annexed three
1 thills-ths Quimnal, the Virninal and the
/ EEsquiline-to the city, and conducted
Trenches around the wall. He was the
| FIRST to order the enrolment of all (citi'
zeas), thing hitherto unknown in the
: world. Under him, Rome. after all had
reported themselves fer enrolment, had
Ieighty three Thousand souls, Roman cit.
tizens, counting those who we're in th'
Ecountry. He was killed by the wicked
mess Of Tarquinius the Proud, his son-in
: tlaw, son Of that king whom he had sue
ceeded. and of the daughter whom Var
: fquinius had as wife.
81 Lueius Tarquinius the Proud, the sew
Tenth and last of the kings, which race is
Inot far from the city as you go towart
fCampania, subdusd the City OF Gabi
land Suessa Pemetia, when he mad
peace with the Etrurians, and finished
the Temple OF Jupiter in the Capitolium
|Afterward, while beseiging Ardea, cit,
. situated on the 18th milestone from th,
+ city (of Rome) he lost his sovereign au
E thority. For, when his son, and himsel
Ia Tarquin, but younger, had dishonoret
that most renowned and most chastt
| woman, Lucretia, the wife Of Collatinus
and [whenl she had, of her wrong, com
planned to her husband and her father
and her friends, slew herself..in the pres
ence of all. For this cause II sayl Bru
I tus, himself, too, a relative of Tarquinius
[ aroused the pepulace and took away tn,
1sovereign authority from Tarquinius
: The army, too, which was storming tn
7 City Of Andrea, along with ths king him
7 self, then left him. Having come to tn
. city, the king was shut out by closed
gates, and when he had ruled four ant
twenty years he fed with his wife ant
children. So, during two hundred ant
forty-three years seven kings ruled al
Rome. Yet Rome, when she possesset
most, scarcely possessed fifteen miles o
territory.