. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. he surest evidence we possess; no foreigntrade could have passed in the Mediterranean on a basis ofthe copper as, and in Latin the equivalent for money is aword denoting cattle. Whoever the early Romans were,they were mainly, as all their religion and traditions show,land-soldiers and farmers. Livy takes a more sensible view. He admits that thecurrent accounts of the foundation of the city are involved inmystery and miracle, but he asserts with justice that if anycity deserved a miraculous origin Rome did. Thereupon hep
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. he surest evidence we possess; no foreigntrade could have passed in the Mediterranean on a basis ofthe copper as, and in Latin the equivalent for money is aword denoting cattle. Whoever the early Romans were,they were mainly, as all their religion and traditions show,land-soldiers and farmers. Livy takes a more sensible view. He admits that thecurrent accounts of the foundation of the city are involved inmystery and miracle, but he asserts with justice that if anycity deserved a miraculous origin Rome did. Thereupon heproceeds to relate the pleasant tale of her foundation in theyear 753 by Romulus and Remus. It is surely unprofitable to search very deeply for grains oftruth in the sands of legend which cover the early traditionsof Rome, but it is sometimes interesting to conjecture howand why the legends were invented. The story of Romulusand Remus, for example, may have taken its rise in a B 17 THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME sacristans tale about an ancient woric of art representing. Roman As (bronze, full size)a wolf suckling two babes. A fairly ancient copy of thismotive is preserved in the famous Capitoline Wolf.* The • Plate
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