Identifier: romeitsrisefallt00myer (find matches)
Title: Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ed the membersof the clan to be overwhelmed by their fellow-citizens withexpressions of admiration and gratitude. The very next day after this offer had been accepted bythe senate, all the men of the Fabian gens able to beararms, — three hundred and six in number, and every mancapable of taking the supreme command of an army, —together with the three or four thousand clients of thegens, marched in proud array, and amidst the prayers ofthe people for the success of their undertaking, out throughone of the city gates, and proceeded to the neighborhoodof Veii. On the little stream of the Cremera they built afort, and by constant forays for two years kept the Veien-tians busily employed in defending their own territory. In all encounters in the open field the Fabii were invariably the victors. At last, however, the Veientians ensnared their enemies. They drove some cattle into a field, some distance from the fort, yet in full view from its 6 This legend is a good commentary on par. 9.
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■ THE AGER ROMANUS \«ft- A AND M^ </ THE LATIN CONFEDERACY IN THE TIME OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC,ABOUT B. C. 450 SCALE OF MILES w/fiyfyj The_Ager Romanus.li^j The Latin Confederacy. I I The original domain of the city of Rome. 1 The Pass of Algidus. 2 The Alban Mount. 3 Mount Soracte. 80 ROME AS A REPUBLIC. walls. Seeing the cattle, and perceiving no one of theenemy between them and the fort, the Fabii set out on afull run to capture the herd. While they were engaged inrounding up the affrighted cattle, the Veientians, whowere lying in ambush, sprang up and, surrounding them,slew them to a man. The only representative of the clanremaining alive was a boy, who on account of his tenderyears had been left behind in the city. From him theFabian race sprang up anew, and in later generations fur-nished the Roman state with many counsellors and com-manders, men who worthily sustained the honor and famethat their ancestors had won for the Fabian house.7 57. The Legend of Cincinnatus. —The

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