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mediately entered upon negotiations for peace, and peace is easily made where both parties are honestly desirous of making it. In fact, a great reaction took place, so that from the reckless and desperate hostility which the two nations had felt for each other, there succeeded so friendly a sentiment, that in the end a treaty of union was made between the two nations. It was agreed that the two nations should be merged into one. The Sabine territory was to be annexed to that of Rome, and Titus Tatius, with the principal Sabine chieftains, were to remove to Rome, which was thenceforth to be the capital of the new kingdom. In a word never was a reconciliation between two belligerent nations so sudden and so complete. CHAPTER XIII. THE CONCLUSION. B.C. 764-717 Romulus reigns in conjunction with the Sabine king.--The Roman Forum.--Growth of the city.--Bold and comprehensive measures.--Cameria.--Difficulty with Titus Tatius.--Controversy between Romulus and Tatius.--The difficulty at Lavinium.--Tatius killed.--Romulus once more sole king.--Rome assumes a general jurisdiction over other states.--Foundation of the future greatness of Rome.--Circumstances connected with the death of Romulus.--Rumors in circulation.--Public opinion.--Proculus's story.--The ghost of Romulus.--The Romans satisfied.--The real truth not to be known.--The interregnum.--A new king. After the termination of the Sabine war Romulus continued to reign many years, and his reign, although no very exact and systematic history of it was recorded at the time, seems to have presented the usual variety of incidents and vicissitudes; and yet, notwithstanding occasional and partial reverses, the city, and the kingdom connected with it, made rapid progress in wealth and population. For four or five years after the union of the Sabines with the Romans, Titus Tatius was in some way or other associated with Romulus in the government of the united kingdom. Romulus, during all this time, had his house and his court on the Palatine hill, where the city had been originally built, and where most of the Romans lived. The head-quarters of the Sabine chieftain were, on the other hand, upon the Capitoline hill, which was the place on which the citadel was situated that his troops had taken possession of in the course of the war, and which it seems they continued to occupy after the peace. The space between the two hills was set apart as a market-place, o
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