atque earum virgines young women. Wars comrapuit. Commotis bel- mencing for the injuftice of lis propter raptarum feizing the women, he con injuriam, Caninenfes quered the Caninenfians, vicit Antemnates, Cruf- the Antemnatians, Cruftutuminos, Sabinos, Fi- minians, Sabines, Fidenadenates, Vejentes (hæc tians, Vejentians, (all omnia oppida urbem thefe towns furround the cingunt.) Et cum or- city.) And as in a form ta fubito tempeftate that rofe all on a fudden, non comparuiffet anno he disappeared in the 37th regni trigefimo fepti. year of his reign, being mo, ad Deos tranfiffe fuppofed to have gone to the creditus, confecratus Gods, he was accordingly Deinde Romæ deified. After that, the per quinos dies fena- fenators reigned at Rome toresimperave runt, & for five days each, and his regnantibus annus whilft they reigned,cne year unus completus eft. was completed.

eft.

3. Poftea Numa Pompilius rex creatus eft,qui bellum nullum quidem geffit, fed non

3. Afterwards Numa Pompilius was made king, who carried on indeed no war, was no lefs fer

now

minus civitati quam viceable to the city than Romulus profuit.Nam & leges Romanis, mo. refque conftituit, qui confuetudine prælio rum jam latrones ac femibarbari putabantur. Annum defcripfit in x. menfes, prius fine aliqua computa. tione confufum : & infinita Romæ facra

Romulus. For he establifhed laws and wholesome ufages among ft the Romans, who, from a custom of fighting, were thought robbers, and half barbarians. He divided the year into ten months, which had been confufed before, without any proper reckoning; and he infti

ac

ac templa conftituit. Morbo deceffit quadragefimo tertio impe

rii anno.

4. Huic fucceffit Tullus Hoftilius. Huic bella reparavit, Albanos vicit, qui ab urbe Roma xii. milliario funt Veintes & Fi denates, quorum alii fexto milliario abfunt ab urbe Romana, alii octavo decimo, bello fuperavit. Urbem ampliavit, adjecto Cælio monte. Cum triginta duobus annis regnâf. fet, fulmine ictus cum domo sua arfit.

5. Poft hunc Ancus Martius, Numæ ex filia nepos, fufcepit imperium. Contra Latinos dimicavit: Aven.

tuted an infinite number of holy rites, and built many temples at Rome. He died of a difeafe, in the fortythird year of his reign.

4. Tullus Hoftillius fucceeded him. He renewed the wars, conquered the Albans, who are at the twelfth mile from the city Rome; he fubdued the Veientes and the Fidenates too, one of which are dif. tant fix miles from the city of Rome, and the other eighteen. He enlarged the city by adding mount Calius. After he had reign. 32 years, he was thunderftruck, and was burnt up, together with his houfe.

5. After him Ancus Martius, the grandfon of Numa by a daughter, took upon him the government. He fought againft the Lat.

tinum montem civitati ins; added mount Avenadjecit, & Janiculum: Oftiam civitatem fupra mare fexto decimo milliario ab urbe Romæ condidit: Vigel mo quarto anno imperii morbo periit.

tine, and Janiculum to the city. He built the city of Oftia upon the fea, at the fixteenth mile from the city Rome. He died a natural death, in the 24th year of his reign.

6. Deinde

6. Deinde regnum 6. Then Prifcus Tar Prifcus Tarquinius ac- quinius got the kingdom. cepit. Hic numerum He doubled the number of fenatorum duplicavit; the fenators, built a * CirCircum Romæ ædifi- cus at Rome; inftituted cavit; ludos Romanos the Roman games, which inftituit, qui ad nof. continue to our times. The tram memoriam per- fame prince likewife conmanent. Vicit idem quered the Sabines, and etiam Sabinos ; & non added to the territory of parum agrorum, fub. the city of Rome not a litlatum iifdem, urbis tle land, which he had Romæ territorio ad. taken from the fame, junxit ; primufque tri- firft entered the city in triumphans urbem in. umph. He made the walls. travit Muros. fecit, and Cloaca. He begun Cloacas; capitoli- the capitol; and was flain um inchoavit: Tri- by the fons of Ancus, that gefimo octavo imperii king, whom he had fucanno per Anci filios ceeded in the 38th year of occifus eft, regis ejus his reign. cui ipfe fuccefferat. 7. Poft hunc Ser7. After him Servius vius Tullius fufcepit Tullius took upon him the imperium, genitus ex government, born of a no

and

nobili:

The Circus was a large circular fort of building, with rows of feats rifing one above another, in which the people were prefented with public games for their diverfion.

+Thefe Ludi Romani were likewife called Magni, and instituted in honor of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. For the heathen worship confifted moitly in mufic, dancing and other diversions.. It is ftrange that nations fo polite and knowing as the Greeks, and Romans, could think fiddling and piping, dancing, wrestling, running and fighting, could be agreeable to their Gods, or a proper way of worshipping them.

Thefe were very wide fubterraneous canals for conveying the Blth of the town into the river..

nobili fœmina, capti- ble woman, but yet a capva tamen, & ancilla. tive and a maidfervant. Hic quoque Sabinos He too fubdued the Sabines, fubegit: montes tres, and added three mountains, Quirinalem, Vimina- the Quirinal, Viminal, lem, Efquilinum ur- and Efquiline to the city, bi abjunxit, foffas cir- and drew ditches round the cum murum duxit. wall. He likewife firft Primus omnium Cen- inftituted the * Cenfus, fum ordinavit qui ad- which had been as yet unhuc per orbem terra- known in the world. Unrum incognitus erat. der him, all people being Sub eo Roma, omni- brought under this Cenfus, bus in cenfum delatis, Rome had eightyfour thoufhabuit capitum lxxxiv. and heads of Roman citmillia civium. Roma- izens, with thofe that were He was norum, cum his qui in in the country. agris erant. Occifus flain in the fortyfifth year eft 45 imperii anno, of his reign, by the vil fcelere generi fui Tar- lainy of his foninlaw, quinii fuperbi,filii ejus Tarquin the proud, the fon regis cui ipfe fucceffe of that king, whom he had rat; & filiæ fuæ quam fucceeded, and of his own Tarquinius habebat daughter, whom Tarquin

uxorem.

8. Lucius Tarquinius fuperbus, feptimus atque ultimus regum, Volfcos (quæ gens ad Campaniam euntibus non longe ab

had to wife.

8. Lucius Tarquinius the proud, the feventh and laft of the kings, conquered the Volfcians (which nation is not far from the city as you go to Campania) he reduc

urbe

*I retain in the tranflation the Latin word; because our lan guage has none to answer it; it fignifies a furvey or account taken of the people, i. e. their eftates, callings, habitations, &c. in order to an equal taxation of them for the public fervice.

urbe eft) vicit; Gabi- ed the city Gabii and Suos civitatem, & Suef- effa Pometia; made a peace fam Pamefiam fube- with the Thufcans, and git; cum Thufcis pa- built a temple to Jupiter cem fecit; & tem- in the Capitol. Afterplum Jovi in Capito- wards as he was attacking lio ædificavit. Poftea Ardea, a city fituated at Ardeam oppugnans, in the diflance of 18 miles octavo decimo millia- from the city Rome he loft rio ab urbe pofitam his kingdom. For when civitatem, imperium his fon Tarquin the youngperdidit. Nam cum er had ravifhed the wife filius ejus, ipfe Tar- of a very noble perfon, quinius junior, nobi- Collatinus, and he had liffimi Collatini uxo- complained of the injury to rem ftuprâffet, eaque her husband and father and de injuria marito & friends, he killed herfelf patri & amicis quefta in the fight of them all; fuiffet, in omnium for which reafon Brutus confpectu fe occidit; her father and Collatinus propter quam caufam raifed the people, and took Brutus parens & ipfe the kingdom from Tarquin. Collatinus populum Prefently his army too, who concitavit, & Tar- were attacking the city quinio ademit imperi- Ardea with the king, deum.. Mox exercitus ferted him; and the king quoque eum, qui ci. upon coming to the city vitatem Ardeam cum Rome, was excluded, the ipfo rege oppugnabat, gates being fhut against reliquit, venienfque ad him. And after he had urbem rex, portis clau- reigned 25 years, he was fi exclufus eft. Cum- banifhed with his wife and que imperâffetannosvi- children.

ginti quinque,cum uxore & liberis fuis fugit.