. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . rdenedwith fire and dipped in blood, and, going to the hostile frontier,in the presence of not less than three witnesses announcedthe decision of the king and Senate and flung the spear acrossthe border. The wars of Ancus resulted in an extension of Roman terri-tory on the left bank of the Tiber. Three cities were destroyedin this district, and their population was removed to Rome,finding a dwelling-place on the Aventine. The Latins thenconcentrated all their forces at Medullia, a powerf
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . rdenedwith fire and dipped in blood, and, going to the hostile frontier,in the presence of not less than three witnesses announcedthe decision of the king and Senate and flung the spear acrossthe border. The wars of Ancus resulted in an extension of Roman terri-tory on the left bank of the Tiber. Three cities were destroyedin this district, and their population was removed to Rome,finding a dwelling-place on the Aventine. The Latins thenconcentrated all their forces at Medullia, a powerful city nearthe Sabine border, and after an obstinate struggle Ancus wasonce more victorious, and returned to Rome with a vast spoiland many thousand prisoners, whom he settled in the MyrtleValley, ^ between the Aventine and Palatine. Still more important was the occupation of the Janiculum,an outlying hill on the right bank of the Tiber, which wasfortified as an outpost against Btruria, and connected with * Livy, i. 32. According to Dionysius (ii. 72), tliey were instituted by Vallis Murcia. 12.
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