Execution of the sons of Brutus 25
War of the Etruscans with Rome 26
Death of Brutus 26
Defeat of the Etruscans 26

Valerius Publicola 26

Dedication of the Capitoline Temple by M. Horatius 26

508. Second attempt to restore the Tarquins 26
Lars Porsena 26
Horatius Cocles 26
Mucius Scaevola 27
Cloelia 27

498. Third attempt to restore the Tarquins 28
War with the Latins 28
Battle of the Lake Regillus 28

496. Death of Tarquinius Superbus 28

CHAPTER IV.

FROM THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS TO THE DECEMVIRATE.
B.C. 498-451.

Struggles between the Patricians and Plebeians 29

Ascendency of the Patricians 29

Sufferings of the Plebeians 30

Law of debtor and creditor 30

Ager Publicus 30

Object of the Plebeians to obtain a share in the political
power and in the public land 30

494. Secession to the Sacred Mount 30
Fable of Menenius Agrippa 31
Institution of the Tribunes of the Plebs 31

486. Agrarian Law of Sp. Cassius 31

Foreign wars 32
488. I. Coriolanus and the Volscians 32
477. II. The Fabia Gens and the Veientines 33
458. III. Cincinnatus and the AEquians 34

League between the Romans, Latins, and Hernicans 35