The kidnapping of the Sabine women during the games in Rome, 8th century BC. Romulus uses his cloak to signal his men to grab 30 Sabine virgins. L'enlevement des Sabines pendant les jeux publics. Copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Mansfeld after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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