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The Story of Rome, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus, Told to Boys and Girls

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Mary Macgregor
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A chronological retelling for young readers that traces Rome’s beginnings from foundation legends and early kings through republican struggles, civic drama, and military expansion. The account interweaves mythic episodes and vivid battle narratives with portraits of political conflict, social change, and notable leaders, showing how conquest, lawmaking, and internal rivalries reshaped the city into a Mediterranean power. Episodes of courage, betrayal, and civic sacrifice illustrate moral tensions alongside institutional developments, and the narrative closes by describing the consolidation of authority that ushers in the era of imperial rule.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Verginius left his beautiful young daughter Verginia in the care of her nurse, Frontispiece
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A she-wolf, coming to the edge of the river to drink, heard their cries, 6
When she saw Horatius wearing on his shoulders the cloak of her betrothed, she broke into bitter sobs, 30
She carried in her arms nine books, 46
‘O my mother, thou hast saved Rome, but thou hast lost thy son,’ 72
Seated in chairs of ivory, sat a number of strange, venerable old men, 100
The youth laid the arms he had taken from his foe at his father’s feet, 120
The armour of Pyrrhus was richer and more beautiful than that of his soldiers, 146
‘I carry here peace and war, choose, men of Carthage, which ye will,’ 176
‘We are beaten, O Romans, in a great battle, our army is destroyed,’ 190
A messenger was seen spurring his horse toward the city, 213
His progress was as that of a king, 232
So Carthage was given to the flames, 258
Here it would be possible, he thought, to hold the enemy at bay, 276
Jugurtha came to the tent of his father-in-law unarmed, 292
Gaius Marius sitting in exile among the ruins of Carthage, 320
Lists of those who were doomed were hung up in the Forum, 336
The following morning Cicero made another speech against Catiline, 352
Looking down upon the stream, he stood awhile deep in thought, 378
Here, sheltered by steep cliffs, he sat down to rest, 412