The Roman History Author:Oliver Goldsmith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: attempts for fome time ; and as to the former, having eonvifted Metius Suffetius, their general, of treafon, he caufed him to be torn to pieces byhorfes ; and fl... more » ill more, to give no ground for future revolts, he utterly demolijhed the city of Alba, and tra'nfplanted the inhabitants to Rome, many of whom he admitted into the Senate. After thefe fuccefTes. he turned his arms againft the Sabines, over whom he gained a fignal viftory by means of his cavaliy, whom the enemy were incapable of withslanding Thus every new war, which depopulates other fhtes, feems but to add ftrength and numbers to that of Rome It was perhaps from a corifcioulnefs, that a flate of war was the heft for his people, that the Icing entered into one with the Latin?, which however was managed but flowly on both fides, no battle being fought, nor town taken except Me- dallia, which had formerly been obliged to accept a Roman colony, and was now permitted to be plundered, a; an example to prevent the like defeclion in others. This war lafted almoft the refl of his reign, the latter part of which was clouded with terrors from pretended prodigies, while, atthe-fame time, the king faw his people affli3ed with a real famine, which it was not in his power to relieve. He died, after a reigo of thirty two years, fome fay by lightning, with his whole family, others, with more probability, by treafon. CHAP. V. From the death of Tullus Hoflilius to the death of Ancus Marrius, the fourth king of Rome. / U. C. ZFTER an interregnum, as in the former 115. cafe, Ancus Martius, the grandfon of Numa, was elefted king by the people, and the choice afterwards was confirmed by the fenate. As this monarch was a lineal defendant from Nuina, fo u- reemed to make bira the great objecl of his imita ion. Indeed be was by...« less