. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . 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
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . 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. MILITARY HISTORY FROM -iS^ TO M-i. 21) and must uut show ourselves more iudifferent thau Carthageand Athens were to the phenomenon of such tenacious per-seAerance. Ah-eady the blows struck at the foot of theApennines Avere heard afar, Greece grew interested in thedefeats of the Romans as well as in their A-ictories, and Carthagehad recently renewed the treaty which she had concluded withthem a century and a half earlier. A hundred and sixtv-fiveyears of fighting Avere needful for them to regain the frontiersand alliances of AAhich the abolition of royalty had dopriAcdthem. The poAver of this people had groAni Aery sloAAly. But inthe midst of these dangers and miseries its sturdy youth hadbeen formed, and it is by sIoaa- growth that men become strongand greatness durable. The capture of Rome l)y the Gauls was known iu Greece shortly after the , who mentions it, names one Lucius as the saviour of the city. Niebuhr thinlis that thisLucius -was the son of the g-reat Ca
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