Today's installment concludes Romans Establish Republicour selection from A History of Rome by Henry George Liddell published in 1855. For works

Thus the free plebeian population might have been reduced to a state of mere dependency, and the history of Rome might have presented a repetition of

There can be no doubt that the wars that followed the expulsion of the Tarquins, with the loss of territory that accompanied them, must have reduced

King Tarquin himself, old as he was, rode in front of the Latins in full armor; and when he descried the Roman dictator marshalling his men, he rode

The temple on the Capitol which King Tarquin began had never yet been consecrated. Then Valerius and Horatius drew lots which should be the

The new consuls filled up the senate to the proper number of three hundred; and the new senators were called "Conscripti," while the old members

But it chanced that Sextus, the king's son, when he saw the fair Lucretia, was smitten with lustful passion; and a few days after he came again to