Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . daring and the use of arms, they holdtheir own and defend their rights against man and beast,—against robbers, or the fiercecreatures of the forest. And sometimes, with a foretaste of the true Roman nature, theymake might do duty for right. At other times they lead the life of their supposedparents, watch the herds and Hocks, cultivate the soil with the gifts of Ceres, and makeofferings in brotherly unity to the good gods, with wreaths of wheat-ears bound with whiteribands on their brows. The followers of Romulus are called Ouinctilii, the friends ofRemus Fa
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . daring and the use of arms, they holdtheir own and defend their rights against man and beast,—against robbers, or the fiercecreatures of the forest. And sometimes, with a foretaste of the true Roman nature, theymake might do duty for right. At other times they lead the life of their supposedparents, watch the herds and Hocks, cultivate the soil with the gifts of Ceres, and makeofferings in brotherly unity to the good gods, with wreaths of wheat-ears bound with whiteribands on their brows. The followers of Romulus are called Ouinctilii, the friends ofRemus Fabii. Then arise dissensions between these and the herdsmen of Numitor and Amulius ;and at the harvest festival of the Dea Dia, the hostile neighbours fall upon Remus froman ambush, seize him, and carry him to Alba to Amulius. The bold Romulus calls his 226 ITALY. followers and friends around him, hastens to Alba and kills Amulius, whom he does notknow to be his mothers slayer. Numitor, reinstated in his rights, assigns to the im-. cascades At tivoli. petuous youths a tract of ground beside the Tiber, there to found a permanent abidingplace. But two hills appear to offer equal advantages for the building of a city, and the ROME, 227 choice of one or the other of them gives rise to a fierce conflict between the brothers,until fratricide terminates the dispute, and the city is named Roma!
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