. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . p of their shipsstranded on the shore of tlie ri\-ers, went forth to pillage far andwide. To this TjUtin and Tiallic war was added another more terrible,called forth by religious fanaticism and ])o]itical hate; the peo])l(^ ofTanpiinii declared war (o^^S ). Al was in a state of crmflagratioii arnuml TJonie. For , (Jauls Mere encamiied in tlie midst of Latium, and Iibiir, ]A\y, %ii. 11. - Gallos . . lirca Pfihim (LUt. vii. lil. lie savs elsewhere of Tiliiir. «;•<? Oullir
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . p of their shipsstranded on the shore of tlie ri\-ers, went forth to pillage far andwide. To this TjUtin and Tiallic war was added another more terrible,called forth by religious fanaticism and ])o]itical hate; the peo])l(^ ofTanpiinii declared war (o^^S ). Al was in a state of crmflagratioii arnuml TJonie. For , (Jauls Mere encamiied in tlie midst of Latium, and Iibiir, ]A\y, %ii. 11. - Gallos . . lirca Pfihim (LUt. vii. lil. lie savs elsewhere of Tiliiir. «;•<? Oulliri belli. MILITARY HISTORY FROM 38!) To -UM. 2 (10 Prseneste, Velitrse, PriA-omum seemed iu league with tliem; theHernicaus remembered having receutly skiiii the plebeiaii OdnsnlGenucius, aud of having yielded the dictator ^\.ppius a Aioturv verydearly bought. Then lastly, the Tarqniniaus had iulieritcd the hateof Yeii against their neighbours of the seven hills, and theyforced Caere into alliance with them, in spite of the bond ofguest-fiiendslup which it had contiacted Avith Rome dming the. Human sacrifices. Gallic war. Joined in addition Ijy the Faliseans, the Tarquinianswent to the fight, conducted by their priests, who brandished, likethe Fvu-ies, bm-ning torches and serpents. Fabus army wasten-ifled by their awful appearance and their hundred and sevenlegionaries were made prisoners and sacrificed by the Tarquiniansto then- gloomy divinities. In the midst of so much peril and terror, the renewal of theancient alliance with the Latin cities, broken iqi by the Gallicinvasion, was some consolation (.So8).- Worn out as much asEome by the prolonged stay of the barbarians, the Latins united Taken from a painting on an Etrnscan tomb. (^Atlas of Xoel des ^ Inter multos terrores solatia fuit . . magna vis militum ah iis accepta (Livv, vii. 1!?> The principal cities which composed the new alliance were Aricia. Bovill*. Gabii. Lanuvium,. Laurentum, Lavinium,Xomentun
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