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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LIFE OF ROMULUS. Fhom whom, and from what cause the city of Rome obtained that name, whose glory has diffused itself over the world, historians are not agreed. Some say the Pelasgi, after they had overrun great part of the globe, and conquered many nations, settled there, and gave their city the name of Rome, t on account of their strength in war. Others tell us, that when Troy was taken, some of the Trojans having escaped and gained their ships, put to sea, and being driven by the winds upon the coast of Tuscany, came to an anchor in the river Tiber; that here, their wives being much fatigued, and no longer able to bear the hardships of the sea, one of them, superior to the rest in birth and prudence, named Roma, proposed that they should burn the fleet; that this being effected, the men at first were much exasperated, but afterwards, through necessity, fixed their seat on the Palatine hill, and in a short time things succeeded beyond their expectation; for the country was good, J and the people hospitable; that therefore, besides other honours paid to Roma, they called their city, as she was the cause of its being built, after her name. Hence, too, we are informed, the custom arose for the women to salute their relations and husbands with a kiss; because those women, when they had burnt the ships, used such kind of endearments to appease the resentment of their husbands. Among the various accounts of historians, it is said, that Roma was the daughter of 1 talus and Leu car ia; or else the Such is the uncertainty of the origin of imperial Rome, and indeed of most cities and. nations that are of any considerable antiquity. That of Rome might be the more uncertain, because its first inhabitants, being a collection of mean persons, fugitives and outlaws, from %ther na.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217844864 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217844863 |
| Weight | 1.22 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.84 In |
| List Price | $26.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 376 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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