. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . acred chickens tooktheir food. To interpret these signs cor-rectly was a difficult matter, requiring along training and special gifts ; and hencearose the science of augury, which wasworked out in great detail by a body ofmen who gave their lives to this study, andformed a close corporation, with pecuharhonours and privileges. Also, all the chiefgods of Rome had their colleges of priests,who sought their favour in due form bysacrifice and prayer. But in the exercise of their religiousfun
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . acred chickens tooktheir food. To interpret these signs cor-rectly was a difficult matter, requiring along training and special gifts ; and hencearose the science of augury, which wasworked out in great detail by a body ofmen who gave their lives to this study, andformed a close corporation, with pecuharhonours and privileges. Also, all the chiefgods of Rome had their colleges of priests,who sought their favour in due form bysacrifice and prayer. But in the exercise of their religiousfunctions both priests and augurs were rigidly excluded fromall direct influence on politics. The same restriction wasmaintained in the private life of Rome.^ Every Roman was apriest so far as his personal affairs were concerned, and thoughhe might seek the advice of a religious expert in cases of diffi-culty, he would submit to no dictation from his spiritualadviser. By this wise limitation the Romans were preservedfrom that priestly interference which has crept like a palsyinto the life of some Priest presentingIncense-box TULLUS HOSTILIUS The long slumber of Numas reign is broken at last, and thewarhke Tullus Hostilius, of true Roman birth, ascends thethrone. A succession of border forays soon led to an openrupture with Alba, and in the shrewd device of Tullus,^ bywhich he contrived to throw the burden of offence on the ^ lyivy, i. 22 ; Dionysius, iii. FOUNDATION OF ROME Albans, we may recognize the beginnings of Roman rival armies took the field, and a battle was about tobegin, when it was proposed that the quarrel should be decidedby the prowess of three Roman and three Alban were the sons of two Alban women, one of whom waswedded to the Roman Horatius, the other to the AlbanCuriatius, and by a miraculous coincidence they were all bornon the same day. The strange conflict ended in favour ofthe Romans, and according to the terms of
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