History for Young Readers Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell 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: frightened, fled away to their homes. When the storm was over, Romulus could not be found. The people said that he was taken to heaven, and they worshipped him a... more »s a god. 14. That, of course, was a heathen notion. Romulus must have died as other men died. Some have said that the senators murdered him. 15. It may be useful to remember, that when Rome was founded the prophet Isaiah was living, for by placing together the facts of sacred and common history we sometimes gain a clearer idea of both. CHAPTER III. NUMA POMPILIUS, SECOND KING OP ROME, B. C. 715. B. C. l- Some time passed after Romulus 715t0673. was dead before it was settled who should succeed him. In the mean time the senators governed. The Romans at last fixed upon the Sabine, Numa Pompilius, who was a very good man—wise, gentle, just, and extremely particular about every thing which had to do with religion. 2. The Romans respected him very much, and supposed he was taught by a beautiful goddess whom they called Egeria. It was Numa's custom often to go by himself to a grotto near Rome, and there they fancied that Egeria appeared to him, and told him what laws to make. This notion we know was absurd and untrue, but certainly Numa did chapter{Section 4many things which may be a good example to all persons, Christians as well as heathens. He was very strict in making the Romans keep their word; and he was as kind to the poor as he was to the rich; and instead of allowing the Romans to quarrel with their neighbors, and go to war with them, he kept them at peace during the whole of his reign, so that the temple of Janus was never once opened. 3. He reigned a long while—forty years and more, it is said; and it must have been a sorrowful day for Rome when good King Numa died. CHAPTER IV. TULLUS HOSTI...« less