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.
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 ÆNEAS | [59] |
| IV. | THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY | [79] |
| V. | THE FLIGHT OF ÆNEAS | [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 | [27] |
| MAP—JOURNEYINGS OF CADMUS | [30] |
| SYMBOLICAL WRITING | [37] |
| SYMBOLICAL AND PHONETIC WRITING | [44] |
| HIEROGLYPHICS | [56] |
| MAP—ORIGIN OF VENUS | [61] |
| ÆNEAS DEFENDING THE BODY OF PANDARUS | [68] |
| THE TORTOISE | [98] |
| HELEN | [105] |
| MAP—WANDERINGS OF ÆNEAS | [118] |
| 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] |