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Title: Young Folks' History of Rome

Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY

OF

ROME.

BY

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE,

AUTHOR OF "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE," "BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS," "YOUNG FOLKS'
HISTORY OF FRANCE," &c.

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BOSTON:

ESTES & LAURIAT,

301 WASHINGTON STREET.

COPYRIGHT BY

D. LOTHROP & CO. and ESTES & LAURIAT.

1880.

PREFACE.

This sketch of the History of Rome covers the period till the reign of
Charles the Great as head of the new Western Empire. The history has
been given as briefly as could be done consistently with such details as
can alone make it interesting to all classes of readers.

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE.

1.--Italy 13

2.--The Wanderings of AEneas 21

3.--The Founding of Rome. B.C. 753-713 31

4.--Numa and Tullus. B.C. 713-618 39

5.--The Driving Out of the Tarquins. B.C. 578-309 47

6.--The War with Porsena 55

7.--The Roman Government 66

8.--Menenius Agrippa's Fable. B.C. 494 74

9.--Coriolanus and Cincinnatus. B.C. 458 84

10.--The Decemvirs. B.C. 450 92

11.--Camillus' Banishment 101

12.--The Sack of Rome. B.C. 390 110

13.--The Plebeian Consulate. B.C. 367 119

14.--The Devotion of Decius. B.C. 357