History of Rome; And of the Roman People, from Its Origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians Volume 1, PT. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...while Tarquin, having returned to Rome in all haste, found its gates shut, and was reduced to take refuge with his sons Titus and Aruns in the Etruscan town of Caere. The third, Sextus, having retreated to Gabii, was killed there by the relatives of his victims.1 This same year Athens was delivered from the tyranny of the Pisistratidae. As a reward for their aid, the people claimed the restoration of the laws of the good King Servius and the establishment of consular government; the Senate consented to it, and the comitia centuriata proclaimed as consuls Junius Brutus and Tarquinius 1 Livy, i. 57-60. Collatinus, and afterward Valerius, when Collatinus, having incurred suspicion 0n account of his name, was exiled to Lavinium. Many others fared as he did; for the people, intoxicated with their new liberty, exacted reprisals, says Cicero; and a great number of innocent people were exiled or despoiled of their goods. 1 Caere only offered a refuge to Tarquin. But Tarquinii and Veii sent to Rome to demand the restoration of the King, or at least the restitution of the goods of his house and of those who had followed him. 3 During the negotiations the deputies planned a conspiracy with some young patricians who preferred the brilliant service of a prince to the reign of law, order, and liberty; the slave Vindicius discovered the plot; the culprits were seized, and amongst them the sons and some relatives of Brutus, who ordered and calmly looked on at their execution. Twenty days were granted to the refugees to return to the city.1 In order to gain the people over to the cause of the revolution, they were allowed the pillage of Tarquin s goods, and each plebeian received seven acres of the royal lands; the fields...