There can be no doubt that a third town, which seems to have been very populous, now existed.Continuing The Foundation of Rome,our selection from

The whole description of the circumstances under which the fate of Alba was decided is just as manifestly poetical, but we shall dwell upon it for a

When, perhaps after several generations of a separate existence, the two states became united, the towns ceased to be towns, and the collective body

The curia of Rome, a cottage covered with straw, was a faithful memorial of the times when Rome stood buried in the night of history, as a small

In the midst of the solemnities, the Sabine maidens, thirty in number, were carried off, from whom the curiæ received their names: this is the genuine

Romulus is universally said to have wished to build on the Palatine, while Remus, according to some, preferred the Aventine; according to others, the

The Romans clung to the conviction that Romulus, the founder of Rome, was the son of a virgin by a god, that his life was marvelously preserved, that