AN INQUIRY

INTO THE

CREDIBILITY OF THE EARLY ROMAN HISTORY.

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AN INQUIRY

INTO THE

CREDIBILITY OF THE EARLY ROMAN HISTORY.

BY THE RIGHT HON.

SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
JOHN W. PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND.

1855.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XII.

History of Rome, from the Ecpulsion of the Kings to the

Burning of the City by the Gauls.

(509–390 B.c.)

Part I.-FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CONSULS TO THE

FIRST SECESSION.

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§ 1 Character of the early history of the commonwealth .

509 B.C.

Nature of the change from the regal to the consular

government.

3 Intrigues of the Tarquinian party at Rome, and consequent

measures of the consuls. Examination of the historical

accounts.

4 Battle with the Veientes and death of Brutus. Measures of

Valerius. Dedication of the Capitoline temple of Jupiter

5 508 B.C. Institution of quæstors. War with Porsena .

6 505 B.C. War with the Sabines. Attus Clausus removes to

Rome.

7 503 B.C. Death of Valerius Publicola

8 502 B.C. Discordant accounts of military events in Dionysius

and Livy

9501 B.C. Creation of the dictatorship, and appointment of a

dictator.

10 497 B.C. Decree respecting mixed marriages of Romans and

Latins

496 B.C. Battle of the Lake Regillus

12 Consequences of the battle. Death of Tarquin at Cumæ .

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Comments upon

the historical accounts for the first fourteen

years of the Republic .

14 Chronological arrangement of the events for the same period

15 495 B.C. War with the Volscians. Discontent created by

the law of debt

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