Stories from the History of Rome

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Mrs. Beesly. Stories from the History of Rome

Stories from the History of Rome

Table of Contents

PREFACE

I. — THE BUILDING OF ROME

II. — THE HORATII AND THE CURIATII

III. — BRUTUS AND HIS SONS

IV. — How Lars Porsenna Besieged Rome

V. — CAIUS MARCIUS AND HIS MOTHER

VI. — THE DEEDS OF THE FABII

VII. — CINCINNATUS

VIII. — THE BATTLE OF CORBIO

X. — HOW THE ROMANS WON TWO CITIES

X. — THE TAKING OF ROME

XI. — THE GULF IN THE FORUM

XII. — THE STORY OF TITUS MANLIUS

XIII. — THE DEATH OF DECIUS

XIV. — THE CAUDINE FORKS

XV. — THE TWO FABII

XVI. — HOW PYRRHUS FOUGHT AGAINST ROME

THE END

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Mrs. Beesly

Published by Good Press, 2021

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So the armies departed to their homes, after having buried the five brothers who had fallen. The graves of the two Romans were together; those of the Albans were separate, in the places where they died. Hundreds of years afterwards their tombs were still to be seen.

Great was the joy in Rome when news came from the camp that Horatius was victorious; the people decked their houses with garlands and hung them with bright-coloured cloths, and came in crowds flocking to see the brave man who had saved Rome. The army marched in at the gate of the city, and in the front came Horatius, carrying in his hands the swords of the three Curiatii, and wearing on his shoulders the mantle that one of them had worn. And the people cried to the gods to bless their champion, and the women threw flowers and laurel boughs on his helmet and under his feet as he went along.

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