By James Baikie
ISBN-10: 1599152908
ISBN-13: 9781599152905
An creation to the traditional urban of Rome, its early background, and the way its geographical place helped it develop into the seat of the Roman Empire. touring to the town in A.D. seventy one we witness the triumph of Vespasian and Titus in addition to the video games within the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus. and at last we study that the key to Rome's greatness is self-discipline, inculcated in her electorate by means of army education and held up as a fantastic in either domestic and civic existence. beautiful black and white illustrations supplement the textual content. appropriate for a while nine and up.
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CHAPTER II Stories of the City's Childhood REMEMBERING, then, what I have told you of the romantic character of the earliest stories of Rome, let us hear what the Romans used to believe, or, at all events, used to relate, about the founding of their city. It came to pass, the old romancers tell us, that when the Wooden Horse had made the Greeks masters of Troy, and all the gallant defenders of the famous city of Priam were being slain, there were two, Æneas and Antenor, who escaped their fury. Antenor and his companions fled from Troy, and after many wanderings and strange haps they settled in the coast-lands between the Alps and the sea, at the northernmost corner of the Adriatic—the same country which the great Republic of Venice afterwards held.
It was the time when Tiber overflows his banks, and the cradle with the boys was not swept into the main current of the river, but was stranded in shallow flood water, not far from the hut of a shepherd named Faustulus. And so it was that while the cradle with the babies lay stranded, there came down a she-wolf to the river to drink, and seeing the boys, and knowing, with the wisdom that the gods have given to the beasts, that they were hungry, she nursed them, and gave them of her milk, and watched over them.
Her long sharp bow projects just at the water-line, and bears three short, stout rams tipped with bronze. This is because the Carthaginian boats will have rams too, and one never knows but it may be necessary to use ours; but the Admiral doesn't mean to ram if he can help it. He has other things in his mind, as we shall see. On either side of the bow a great eye is painted, looking forward; for the ship must be able to see her way. Two anchors hang at the catheads, one of the usual shape, another shaped almost like a mushroom.
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