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 Makers of History

 Romulus

 BY JACOB ABBOTT

 WITH ENGRAVINGS

 NEW YORK AND LONDON

 HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

 1901




 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

 HARPER & BROTHERS,

 in the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York.

 Copyright, 1880, by BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT, AUSTIN ABBOTT,
 LYMAN ABBOTT, and EDWARD ABBOTT.




[Illustration: THE HARPIES.]




PREFACE


In writing the series of historical narratives to which the present
work pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish to the
reading community of this country an accurate and faithful account of
the lives and actions of the several personages that are made
successively the subjects of the volumes, following precisely the
story which has come down to us from ancient times. The writer has
spared no pains to gain access in all cases to the original sources of
information, and has confined himself strictly to them. The reader
may, therefore, feel assured in perusing any one of these works, that
the interest of it is in no degree indebted to the invention of the
author. No incident, however trivial, is ever added to the original
account, nor are any words even, in any case, attributed to a speaker
without express authority. Whatever of interest, therefore, these
stories may possess, is due solely to the facts themselves which are
recorded in them, and to their being brought together in a plain,
simple, and connected narrative.




 CONTENTS.


 CHAPTER                                                    PAGE

    I. CADMUS                                                13

   II. CADMUS'S LETTERS                                      36

  III. THE STORY OF AENEAS                                    59

   IV. THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY                               79

    V. THE FLIGHT OF AENEAS                                  103

   VI. THE LANDING IN LATIUM                                131

  VII. RHEA SILVIA                                          155

 VIII. THE TWINS                                            179

   IX. THE FOUNDING OF ROME                                 202

    X. ORGANIZATION                                         225

   XI. WIVES                                                248

  XII. THE SABINE WAR                                       270

 XIII. THE CONCLUSION                                       295




ENGRAVINGS.


                                                            PAGE

 THE HARPIES                                    _Frontispiece._

 JUPITER AND EUROPA                                          28

 MAP--JOURNEYINGS OF CADMUS                                  30

 SYMBOLICAL WRITING                                          37

 SYMBOLICAL AND PHONETIC WRITING                             44

 HIEROGLYPHICS                                               56

 MAP--ORIGIN OF VENUS                                        61

 AENEAS DEFENDING THE BODY OF PANDARUS                        68

 THE TORTOISE                                                98

 HELEN                                                      105

 MAP--WANDERINGS OF AENEAS                                   119

 MAP--LATIUM                                                134

 SILVIA'S STAG                                              145

 RHEA SILVIA                                                180

 FAUSTULUS AND THE TWINS                                    184

 SITUATION OF ROME                                          209

 PROMISING THE BRACELETS                                    284

 THE DEATH OF ROMULUS                                       305




ROMULUS




CHAPTER I.

CADMUS.

B.C. 1500

Different kinds of greatness.--Founders of cities.--Rome.--Interest
in respect to its origin.--The story of AEneas.--The Mediterranean
sea.--Italy and Greece in ancient times, and now.--Ancient
chieftains.--Their modes of life.--Religious ideas of the ancient
Greeks and Romans.--Ancient studies of nature.--Purpose of
them.--History.--Ancient poems and tales.--How far founded
in fact.--Cadmus.--Interest felt in respect to the
origin of writing.--True story of Cadmus.--His father
Agenor.--Europa.--Telephassa.--The pursuit of Europa.--Fruitless
result.--Cadmus settles in Greece.--Thebes.--Arts introduced by
him.--The ancient legend of Cadmus.--Jupiter.--Adventures of
Jupiter.--His love for Europa.--His elopement.--Jupiter and Europa
in Crete.--The expedition of Cadmus.--His various wanderings.--Death
of Telephassa.--Visit to the oracle at Delphi.--The directions of
the oracle.--Cadmus finds his guide.--The place for his city
determined.--The fountain of Dirce.--The dragon