. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . ir names, the captive is ealledCseles Yibtiina, and he who deliAcrs him is Mastarna. Thesemen are the two companions in arms, who, after many adventures,sometimes risky, like that which tlie painter represents, arri\ed atRome, where (me became chief of the people of ^lars and theothir gave his name to Mount(;elius. It is easily und^stoodthat lioman pridi would preferto the Etruscan adventurer,seekiug fortune at the point ofhis sword, the favourite of thegods of till Capitol. This adventurer w
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . ir names, the captive is ealledCseles Yibtiina, and he who deliAcrs him is Mastarna. Thesemen are the two companions in arms, who, after many adventures,sometimes risky, like that which tlie painter represents, arri\ed atRome, where (me became chief of the people of ^lars and theothir gave his name to Mount(;elius. It is easily und^stoodthat lioman pridi would preferto the Etruscan adventurer,seekiug fortune at the point ofhis sword, the favourite of thegods of till Capitol. This adventurer was, how-ever, a man of peace. We are (inly told of one doubtful war /^^ f\\ ^-^^^^~~~~-^] of his, against the Veientines,which Dionysius of Jlalicarnassustransforms into a victory overthe whole Ktruscan nation. ISer\ ius was more *S2)eeially the legis-lative king. Kid the constitution known undei his name reallybelong to him or Avas it the work of time ^ This reform which,modified at different times, yet lived as long as Itoman liberty,must have been the outcom<, not of the brain of one man but. Ciclef VilieiiiKi and ; tables of bioii/ifuuiid at ;, in l)Ll, li\ a peasant wlio tftncliinj! his viiicyaril. Ill i8now to be found uppiiided to uio-st good editions of Tacitus Annals.— /,V/.] In , in tlie same funeral chamber at Vuki, in which Achilles was niircseiiledsacrificing some Trojan captives (.see p. \\\.). The liKiinm who had been laid there, had withoutdoubt some similar brother-in-urnis, for the two pictures express the same idea, the devotion ofa waiTior towards tlie friend who followed him in battle; .\clulles avenges Palrodes, delivers Cales. These felhjwsbips iu war be an Rtruscan custom, (tf. Noel desVergers, Ilaiie Arifieul., IStia, p. 4(ii). [They were, us we know, an old (ireili euslom, especiallyin Sparta, and among the Abuntes of Eubeea.—iirf.) ^ Livy, i. 42. [Tliis does not agree with tlie researches of \. Uur
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