An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History
by George Cornewall Lewis (9781458811530)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 12 On the morrow of the battle, a Volscian army arrives to assist the Latins, and the general attempts to deceive Postu- mius; but the latter detects the stratagem, and the Volscians withdraw. (loc) Shortly afterwards, envoys from the Latin cities come to Rome, protesting that the Latins had been misled by selfish demagogues, and supplicating, in the most earnest and humble manner, that they may be received as allies and subjects of the Romans. Hereupon a debate takes place in the Senate: Larcius advises a simple renewal of the treaty with the Latins, as it existed before the war. Servius Sulpicius recommends the confiscation of half their territory, and its occupation by Roman colonists: a still severer course is counselled by Sp. Cassius: he wishes that their towns should be razed to the ground, and that the population should be treated like that of Alba.(ll7) The Senate decide in favour of the proposition of them a temple. Frontinus, Strat. i. 11, 8, goes one step farther for he describes it as a pious fraud of Postumius. ' A. Poslumius pra'lio, quo cum' Latinis eouflixit, oblata specie cluorum in equis juvenum, animos suomin erexit, textit{Polluccm et Casturem adesse dicent, ac sic prceliuin restituit." The victory of the Eomans at the baltle of Kegillus is attributed to the assistance of Castor and Pollux, by Vol. Max. i. 8, 1. Compare Ovid, Fast. i. 707; Mimic. Felix, c. 7; Latinus Pacatus, in Paneg. c. 39. Plutarch, ./Emil. Paul. 25, adds another marvel belonging to this legend; namely, that when the divine brothers announced the news of the victory, they laid their hands on the beard of one man who appeared to doubt the report, and, in confirmation of its truth, changed its colour from black to red: whence he received the name of textit{Ahenobarlus. This sto...

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