. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . ard, with-out thinking of its rt-turn, penetrated asfar as Apulia. Eight centuries later theFranks ren(>wed these daring raids withthe same careless confidence, and startingfrom the banks of the Meuse went straightbefore them till they were stopped by the Straits of Messina. The hero of this last contest, Valerius Corvus, was chosenconsul at the age of twenty-thi-ee (in 34G) to suppress somemovements among the Yolscians. lie burnedSatricum, which the Antiates had rebuilt. Inthe following y
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . ard, with-out thinking of its rt-turn, penetrated asfar as Apulia. Eight centuries later theFranks ren(>wed these daring raids withthe same careless confidence, and startingfrom the banks of the Meuse went straightbefore them till they were stopped by the Straits of Messina. The hero of this last contest, Valerius Corvus, was chosenconsul at the age of twenty-thi-ee (in 34G) to suppress somemovements among the Yolscians. lie burnedSatricum, which the Antiates had rebuilt. Inthe following year the taking of Sora on theLiris, at the extremity of the Volscian country,and a victory over the Aurunci, -s^ho inhabiteda group of volcanic mountains on the left bankof the same river,* opened the road to Cam-]iania to the Eomans. These wars are as toilsome to read aboutas they were to fight, and even the art of Livyhas not succeeded in making them interesting. Elruscau Archer.^ j^^^^ ^ „^^^^ ^^^-^^ ^^^ ^ ^.j^^^^ ^^, ^|^p ^^^^^^^ cuiiosity as is accorded to the obscure origin of a great man,. Taken from Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. Taken from a painting on an Etruseati tomb at Caere. Four miles below Sora, after junction with tlie Fibrenus, the Liris forms, near thevillage of Isola. one of the most beautiful cascades in Italy. The river there falls from atotal height of more tlian 100 feet. (Craven. Abnizzi i. 93). Cicero had a house near thespot, on the isola San Paolo, which is surrounded by the Fibrenus. He was born there(de Leg. iv. 1.), and it was about this villa that he uttered the beautiful words we havequoted on page 88. On one of these mountains, now called monte di Santa Croce, the highest peak of whichrises to a height of nearly .S,.300 feet above tlie sea, tlie Auriimi buili tlieir first capital,Aurunca, which the Sidicini destroyed in a1
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