Identifier: storyofgreatestn02elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Rome—Wars Against the Tarquins 31 r Meanwhile the Tarquins had been gathering what forces they could, bothfrom the neighboring cities which had owned their sway, and from the more orless independent nations beyond. For what followed we have no record butthe Roman legends; and it must be remembered that the Romans were evera boastful people. They themselves admit that their city was brought tothe verge of ruin. All their war-won territories were lost, and they enteredon a grim struggle for mere existence. During a hundred years thereafterRome was once more a single town, battling in petty strife against its nearestneighbors. Three times the Tarquins stood with an army before the walls of the city.The first time the invaders were defeated in battle; but the hero Brutus wasamong the slain. The second time it was the great Etrurian king, Lars Por-sena, of Clusium, who took up the Tarquin cause. The story of Porsena is very confused, but two of Romes most famouslegends are built upon it.

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