Ancient legends of Roman history . a hill outsidethe city walls and prepares to wage war against the father-land. Livy, who clearly perceives the points of contactbetween this story and that of the first Roman secession,says that the defeated plebeians of Ardea were in no wisesimilar to the Roman plebs, because they left the city asan armed body, and, taking possession of a hill, made incur-sions upon the estates of the aristocrats with fire and it must be observed that, according to other traditionsrecorded by Livy himself, the Roman plebs, even in thefirst secession (which, when al
Ancient legends of Roman history . a hill outsidethe city walls and prepares to wage war against the father-land. Livy, who clearly perceives the points of contactbetween this story and that of the first Roman secession,says that the defeated plebeians of Ardea were in no wisesimilar to the Roman plebs, because they left the city asan armed body, and, taking possession of a hill, made incur-sions upon the estates of the aristocrats with fire and it must be observed that, according to other traditionsrecorded by Livy himself, the Roman plebs, even in thefirst secession (which, when all is said, is a repetition of thesame event), devastated the lands of the Fur-thermore, in the story of the second secession, we see theRoman army encamped on Mons Algidus making commoncause with the plebeians who had remained in the city, and,guided by the father of Virginia, moving hostilely againstRome. The two stories are identical, not only in the main out-line, but also in some minor details. It is evident that. LUCRETIA AND VIRGINIA 189 iEquus Cluilius, who leads the Volscians against the Opti-mates of Ardea and who surrounds the city with a vallum,is in no wise different from that Cluilius, King of Alba,who similarly advances against Rome and gives origin tothe name Cluilice At about the same time in whichJEquus Cluilius marches against Ardea. the Romans areengaged in war with the 2Eqm and the Volscians, who hadtaken advantage both of the secession at Ardea and of theone at Rome. Indeed, they had advanced as far as the PortaEsquilina in the hope of capturing the city divided They do not, however, succeed in their attempt,being conquered by the legendary T. Quinctius Cincin-natus—that same person who, fifteen years earlier, wassupposed to have conquered the same enemies, under theleadership (even then) of a Though the twostories are practically identical, some slight discrepanciesexist that have no great weight either o
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