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Professor of Latin in University College, London

With Illustrations From Designs by Pinelli.

Scribner And Welford

MDCCCLXXXIII.

TO HENRY FRANCIS CHURCH BEST OF BROTHERS

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

STORIES FROM LIVY.

CHAPTER I. THE STORY OF ROMULUS AND OF NUMA. CHAPTER II. THE STORY OF ALBA. CHAPTER III. THE STORY OF THE ELDER TARQUIN. CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF SERVIUS. CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF BRUTUS. CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF LARS PORSENNA. CHAPTER VII. THE STORY OF CORIOLANUS. CHAPTER VIII. THE STORY OF THE FABII. CHAPTER IX. THE STORY OF CINCINNATUS. CHAPTER X. THE STORY OF THE DECEMVIRS AND OF VIRGINIA. CHAPTER XI. THE STORY OF VEII. CHAPTER XII. THE STORY OF CAMILLUS. CHAPTER XIII. THE STORY OF ROME AND THE GAULS. CHAPTER XIV. THE STORY OF ROME AND THE GAULS (continued). CHAPTER XV. THE STORY OF MANLIUS OF THE TWISTED CHAIN. CHAPTER XVI. STORIES OF CERTAIN GREAT ROMANS. CHAPTER XVII. THE STORY OF THE PASSES OF CAUDIUM.

ILLUSTRATION

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The Wolf and the Twins

The Death of Tarpeia

Death of the Horatti and Curiattii

Tullia Driving over the Body of Her Father

Brutus Condemning his Sons to Death

Horatius on the Bridge

Mutius Before King Porsenna

Cloelia and Her Companions

Coriolanus Before his Mother

Incinnatus Called to Be Dictator

The Death of Virginia

Roman Ladies Bringing Their Ornaments

The Gauls and the Senators

Curtius Leaping Into the Chasm

Decius Devoting Himself for his Country