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Lays of Ancient Rome has been reprinted on numerous occasions. An 1881 edition, lavishly illustrated by John Reinhard Weguelin, has frequently been republished. Countless schoolchildren have encountered the work as a means of introducing them to history, poetry, and the moral values of courage, self-sacrifice, and patriotism that Macaulay extolled.
Many of the Latin towns had been allies of Rome during the final days of the Roman monarchy; some continued this alliance, while others sided with the Tarquins, who sought to regain the throne. The Latin league was led by Octavius Mamilius , a prince of Tusculum , and the son-in-law of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and last King of Rome.
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Octavius Mamilius, prince of Tusculum, on horseback before the Walls of Rome. On his left, in a chariot, is Lars Porsena, the King of Clusium. [i] John Reinhard Weguelin, illustration from Lays of Ancient Rome (1881 edition). The gens Mamilia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome during the period of the Republic.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome, Longman, London (1842). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , William Smith , ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology , vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).
Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I.
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Siege of Rome by the Etruscans under Lars Porsena.This animated depiction shows the phases of the battle, including the defense of the bridge by Horatius. Horatius was a member of the ancient patrician house of the Horatii, celebrated in legend since the combat between the Horatii and the Curiatii in the time of Tullus Hostilius, the third Roman king. [3]