The coming of Æneas into Italy, and his achievements there;
the
reign of Ascanius in Alba, and of the other Sylvian kings.
Romulus
and Remus born. Amulius killed. Romulus builds Rome; forms a
senate; makes war upon the Sabines; presents the opima
spolia to
Jupiter Feretrius; divides the people into curiæ; his
victories;
is deified. Numa institutes the rites of religious worship;
builds
a temple to Janus; and having made peace with all his
neighbours,
closes it for the first time; enjoys a peaceful reign, and is
succeeded by Tullus Hostilius. War with the Albans; combat of
the
Horatii and Curiatii. Alba demolished, and the Albans made
citizens
of Rome. War declared against the Sabines; Tullus killed by
lightning. Ancus Marcius renews the religious institutions of
Numa;
conquers the Latins, confers on them the right of citizenship,
and
assigns them the Aventine hill to dwell on; adds the hill
Janiculum
to the city; enlarges the bounds of the empire. In his reign
Lucumo
comes to Rome; assumes the name of Tarquinius; and, after the
death
of Ancus, is raised to the throne. He increases the senate, by
adding to it a hundred new senators; defeats the Latins and
Sabines; augments the centuries of knights; builds a wall
round the
city; makes the common sewers; is slain by the sons of Ancus
after
a reign of thirty-eight years; and is succeeded by Servius
Tullius.
He institutes the census; closes the lustrum, in which eighty
thousand citizens are said to have been enrolled; divides the
people into classes and centuries; enlarges the Pomoerium, and
adds the Quirinal, Viminal, and Esquiline hills to the city;
after
a reign of forty years, is murdered by L. Tarquin, afterwards
surnamed Superbus. He usurps the crown. Tarquin makes war on
the
Volsci, and, with the plunder taken from them, builds a temple
to
Jupiter Capitolinus. By a stratagem of his son, Sextus
Tarquin, he
reduces the city of Gabii; after a reign of twenty-five years
is
dethroned and banished, in consequence of the forcible
violation of
the person of Lucretia by his son Sextus. L. Junius Brutus and
L.
Tarquinius Collatinus first created consuls.