Clear and straight and brief their talk in country or in town.

Lucid, vivid, accurate the thoughts that they set down.

Still the world is using words that bear the Roman stamp—

Coined in forum, villa, temple, market place or camp.

Still our thoughts take day by day those shapes of long ago—

If you read the dictionary you will find it’s so.

[pg xi]

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.The Mountain of Fire[3]
II.Ten Families[17]
III.The Sacred Year[28]
IV.The Banditti[40]
V.The Wolf Cub[55]
VI.Boundary Lines[68]
VII.Masterless Men[81]
VIII.The Beehive Temple[94]
IX.The Square Hill[108]
X.The Kinsmen[117]
XI.The Taking of Alba Longa[130]
XII.The Ring Wall[140]
XIII.The Soothsayers[152]
XIV.Bread and Salt[161]
XV.The Trumpery Man[174]
XVI.The Great Dyke[184]
XVII.The War Dance[196]
XVIII.The Peace of the Women[208]
XIX.The Priest of the Bridge[224]
XX.The Three Tribes[233]
XXI.Under the Yoke[243]
XXII.The Goat’s Marsh[251]
A Roman Road[261]