ver one by one, but were placed on
rafts, so that being incapable of passing on between the piers of the
bridge, they firmly stuck there, and burnt the bridge. This mode of
interpretation is confirmed by Dion. iii. 5, 6. The bridge here meant is
the one built by the Sabines at the confluence of the Anio and the
Tiber----Another reading is, _pleraque in ratibus impacta subliciis quam
haererent_, "most of them being driven against the boats, resting on
piles, stuck there," &c.]

38. Collatia and all the land about it was taken from the Sabines, and
Egerius, son to the king's brother, was left there with a garrison. I
understand that the people of Collatia were thus surrendered, and that
the form of the surrender was as follows: the king asked them, "Are ye
ambassadors and deputies sent by the people of Collatia to surrender
yourselves and the people of Collatia?" "We are." "Are the people of
Collatia their own masters?" "They are." "Do ye surrender yourselves and
the people of Collatia, their city, lands, water, boundaries, temples,
utensils, and every thing sacred or profane belonging to them, into my
power, and that of the Roman people?" "We do." "Then I receive them."
The Sabine war being ended, Tarquin returned in triumph to Rome. After
that he made war upon the ancient Latins, where they came on no occasion
to a general engagement; yet by carrying about his arms to the several
towns, he subdued the whole Latin nation. Corniculum, old Ficulea,
Cameria, Crustumerium, Ameriola, Medullia, and Nomentum, towns which
either belonged to the ancient Latins, or which had revolted to them,
were taken. Upon this a peace was concluded. The works of peace were
then set about with greater spirit, even than the efforts with which he
had conducted his wars; so that the people enjoyed no more ease and
quiet at home, than they had done abroad: for he both set about
surrounding the city with a stone wall, on the side where he had not
fortified it, the beginning of which work had been interrupted by the
Sabine war, and the lower parts of the city round the forum and the
other valleys lying between the hills, because they did not easily carry
off the water from the flat grounds, he drains by means of sewers drawn
sloping downward into the Tiber. Moreover he levels an area for founding
a temple to Jupiter in the Capitol, which he had vowed to him in the
Sabine war; his mind even then presaging the future grandeur of the
place.

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