PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION
ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 1, No. 45, SERIAL No. 46
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC.
FORUM TOWARD THE CAPITOL, ROME
THE RUINS OF ROME
The Capitoline Hill
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When Rome was founded by Romulus and his handful of comrades they soon saw that if the city was to grow and prosper they would need wives. How to get them was the question. Near Rome was a nation called the Sabines. So the Romans enticed the women of this nation to the new city and kept them there. It is recorded that these early Romans were pretty fine looking men, and that the efforts of the Sabine women to escape were not very strenuous.
But naturally the Sabine men were not pleased to be thus deprived of their wives. They started a war with Rome, and besieged the city.
The Capitoline Hill was the most important of the seven hills on which Rome was built. So Romulus fortified it strongly, and gave it into the care of one of his bravest generals, Tarpeius. But Romulus reckoned without Tarpeia, the daughter of Tarpeius.