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Titus Livius, Selections From the First Five Books, Together With the Twenty-First and Twenty-Second Books Entire
Titus Livius Selections From the First Five Books Together With the TwentyFirst and TwentySecond Books Entire Author:Livy Subtitle: Chiefly From the Text of Alschefski General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you g... more »et free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LIBRI SECUNDI CAP. 1-?, XII, XIII, XXXIV-XL. AKGUMENTUM LIBRI SECUNDI. I Brutus jurejurando populum adstrinxit neminem régnare Romou passuros ; II. Tarquinium Collatinum coligara sunm, propter affini- tatern Tarquiniorum suspectum, coegit consulatu se abdicare et civi- tate cederé ; V. Bona regum diripi jussit ; agrura Marti consecravit, qui Campus Martius nominatus est; adolescentes nobiles, in quibus Bugs quoquo et sororis filios, quia conjuraverant de recipiendis regibus, securi percussit ; servo indici, cui Vindicio nomen fuit, Jibertatem dedit : ex cujus nomine vindicta appellata ; VI. Cum adversus reges, qui contractis Veientium et Tarquiniensium copiis bellum intulerant, exercitum duxisset. in aciem cum Arrunte, filio Superb!, commortuus est ; VII. Eiimque matron? annum luxerunt. VIII. P. Valerius consul legem de provocatione ad populum tulit. Capitolium dedica- tum est. IX. X. Forsina, Clusinorum Rex, bello pro Tarquiiiiis sus- cepto, cum ad Janiculum venisset, ne Tiberim transiret virtute Cocli- tis Horatii prohibitus est ; qui, dum alii pontem sublicium rescindunt, solus Etruscos sustinuit ; et, ponte rupto, armatus in flumen se misit et ad suos transnavit. XII. Alterum accessit virtutis exemplum a Mucio ; qui, cum ad feriendum Porsinam castra hostium intrasset, occiso scriba quern regem esse putabat, comprehensus, impositam altaribus manum in quibus sacrificatum erat exuri passus est, dixitqne esse tales trecen- tos conjúralos in mortem ipsius régis. Quorum admiratione coactus Porsina pacis condition...« less