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Lives of the Most Select and Illustrious Characters of Antiquity
Lives of the Most Select and Illustrious Characters of Antiquity Author:Plutarch General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Original Publisher: W.C. Borradaile Subjects: History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece History / Ancient / Rome History / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or m... more »issing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 44 NÜMA. Flourished 714 years before Christ. NCMA was a native of Cures, a considerable city of the Sabines, from which the Romans, together with the incorporated Subirles, took the name of Quirifcs. He was the son of a person of distinction named Pomponius, and the youngest of four brothers. He was born the twenty-first of April, the same day on which Rome was founded by Romulus. His mind was naturally disposed to virtue, and he still farther subdued it by discipline, patience and philosophy, not only purging it if the grosser and more infa- iiiuus passions, but even of that ambition and rapaciousriess which was reckoned honourable amongst the barbarian, persuaded that true fortitude consists in the conquest of appetite by reason. On this account, he banished all luxury and splendour from his house and both the citizens and strangers found in him.8 faithful counsellor, and an upright judge. As lor his hours of leisure, he spent them not in the pursuits of pleasure, or schemes of profit, but in the worship of the gods, and in rational inquiries into their nature and their power. His name became at length so illustrious, that Tatius, who was the associate of Romulus in the kingdom, having an only daughter named Tatia, bestowed her upon him. He was not, however, so much elated with this match as to remove to the court of his father-in-law, but continued in the country of the Sabines, paying his attentions to his own father, who was now grown old. Ta...« less