. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . e civil institutions, and the population, which remained Latino-sabine. Tlu history of the greatness and of the fall of the lastof the Tar([uins, of Avars undertaken by the Etruscans in orderto re-establish it, leads us, in fact, to the idea that the revolu-tion of the year 510 i?.e. was the result of a uatiimal niovemcnt,provok(Hl by some insulting challenge, such as the outrage onLucretia. The fortune of the Easenas was thus waning every-where. They had already lost the plains of the To, an
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . e civil institutions, and the population, which remained Latino-sabine. Tlu history of the greatness and of the fall of the lastof the Tar([uins, of Avars undertaken by the Etruscans in orderto re-establish it, leads us, in fact, to the idea that the revolu-tion of the year 510 i?.e. was the result of a uatiimal niovemcnt,provok(Hl by some insulting challenge, such as the outrage onLucretia. The fortune of the Easenas was thus waning every-where. They had already lost the plains of the To, and theywere now losing, or about to lose, those of Campania. The re-action of the iiuligenous races reached Latium and the townwhich was its most flourishing city. By-4lie exile of Tarquin,then, Ave must understand the cnul of tlie great Tiberine lucu-monv and the revival of th(> old Ivoman [Of llie interestmjjf arguments of {(irna, p. .5, wy.) to sliow the duiuiiialionof the Etruscans about CiOO , and the of Etruscan names among the Latin towns.—iV/.]. Taken from a paii;.i.,_ .:. .i ^a tonicin. \\iu ancient Tarquinii. CHAPTEE V. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. I.—Character of Ancient Roman Society. NOTHIXG can be said of science, art or literature iu thisperiod. When Tarqiiiu fell, Greek literature had finishedhalf its career, perhaps the most brilliant part. The best daysof at least the higher kind of poetry had passed, and the -worksof Solon, Siiiionides, and Anacreon were an early decadence; butPindar, ^Eschylus, Herodotus and Thucydides were born (ir Averepresently to appear. Thus, on one of the shores of the AdriaticGreece had for centuries listened to her immortal singers, whileon the other literary genius was yet asleep. And it must be so,because, if the Eomans had a worship, they hud not a religion, inthe sense of a mythology. Instead of the magnificent developinentof the Greek theodicy and of those great [philosophical] syst
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