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Title: Ancient legends of Roman history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Pais, Ettore, 1856-1939 Cosenza, Mario Emilio, 1880-1966, tr
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Romans. In the earliestlists, there figure a king Palatinus and a king Aventinus.The names of the kings who were later received into theofficial records are in perfect harmony with the develop-ment of the city, due to the foreign elements which super-imposed themselves upon the more ancient and indigenousones. Tradition, though full of imaginary names and cir-cumstances to which it endeavors to give the character ofauthentic history, nevertheless with reason affirms that theCselian, the Aventine and the Capitoline, as well as theOppian and the Cispian, were settled by foreign elementsfrom the Alban Hills, by the Prisci Latini, by the Sabinesand the inhabitants of Tusculum and of Anagnia. Thename of the Esquiline, indeed, contrasts these foreignerswith the natives. The myth of Servius Tullius serves to mark the interven-tion of the Latin element, which, having penetrated intoRome as a conquered and captive force, later gave life tothe plebs. The latter, by continual struggles with the
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SERVIUS TULLIUS 151 patricians, in the end became masters of the Latin State.At the same time the legend reveals to us the conditionsof the earliest civilization of the Prisci Latini. From theslopes of the Alban Hills, however, there did not come toRome only that cult which was to give origin to the legendof Servius Tullius, the founder of the plebeian history andof the Compitalia (the feast of the street Lares), and,finally, of the constitution which placed the consuls at thehead of the State. From that soil, so rich in human ener-gies, where flowers and forests grow in such wild beauty,there came to Rome also the legend of Juturna, and thoseof Numa, of Egeria and of Coriolanus. From that sameregion, too, in which the hardiness of its people is foundtogether with the most odorous flowers of poetry, therewas transported to Rome the beautiful episode of the fairand chaste maiden who, with her blood, was destined toassure liberty to the Romans. CHAPTER VIII THE LEGENDS OP THE HORATH AND

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