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5829 |
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Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
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1. Anno post euersionem Troiae CCCCXIIII, olympiade autem sexta, quae quinto demum anno quattuor in medio expletis apud Elidem Graeciae ciuitatem agone et ludis exerceri solet, urbs Roma in Italia a Romulo et Remo geminis auctoribus condita est. 2 Cuius regnum continuo Romulus parricidio imbuit, parique successu crudelitatis sine more raptas Sabinas, inprobis nuptiis confoederatas maritorum et parentum cruore dotauit. 3 Itaque Romulus, interfecto primum auo Numitore dehinc Remo fratre, arripuit imperium urbemque constituit; regnum aui, muros fratris, templum soceri sanguine dedicauit; sceleratorum manum promissa inpunitate collegit. 4 Primus illi campus ad bellum forum urbis fuit, mixta simul externa ciuiliaque bella numquam defutura significans. |
| Translation |
1. In the 414th year after the fall of Troy in the sixth Olympiad, which is
celebrated with competitions and games in the Greek city of Elis every fifth
year, four having passed from one celebration to the next, the city of Rome
was founded in Italy under the twin leadership of Romulus and Remus.
2. Straightaway Romulus stained his rule with parricide and followed
this with an equally cruel act by giving a dowry of their husbands’ and
fathers’ blood to the Sabine women who had been seized contrary to
custom and shamefully married off. 3. It was in this way that Romulus,
having first murdered his grandfather Numitor, and then his brother
Remus, seized power and founded the City. He dedicated his kingdom with
the blood of his grandfather, its walls with the blood of his brother, and its
temple with that of his father‑in‑law, and then gathered together a band of
criminals by promising them immunity from punishment.
4. His first field of battle was the forum of the City – a sign that wars,
both external and civil mixed together, would never be absent from the
realm. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 2, Cap. 4, 1-4 (p. 90, trans. Fear, pp. 77-8) |
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