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Book i. The arrival of Æneas in Italy, and his achievements there, the reign of Ascanius in Alba, and of the other Sylvian kings, his successors. Birt
Book ii. Brutus binds the people, by an oath, never to restore the kingly government obliges Tarquinius Collatinus, on account of his relationship to
Book iii. Dissensions about the agrarian laws. The Capitol seized by exiles and slaves. Quintius Cincinnatus called from the cultivation of his farm,
Book iv. A law, permitting the intermarriage of plebeians with patricians, carried, after a violent struggle and strong opposition on the part of the
Book v. On occasion of the siege of Veii, winter huts erected for the troops on account of which, being a new plan, the tribunes of the people endeav
Book vi. Successful operations against the Æquans, and Volscians, and Prænestines. Four new tribes added. Marcus Manlius, who defended the Capitol, be
Book vii. The offices of prætor and curule ædile instituted. A pestilential disorder rages in the city of which dies the celebrated Furius Camillus.
Book viii. The Latines, in conjunction with the Campanians, revolt send ambassadors to Rome, to propose, as the condition of peace, that one of the c
Book ix. Titus Veturius and Spurius Postumius, with their army, surrounded by the Samnites at the Caudine forks enter into a treaty, give six hundred
Book x. Submission of the Marcians accepted. The college of Augurs augmented from four to nine. The law of appeal to the people carried by Valerius th
Book xxi. Rise of the second Punic war. Hannibal, contrary to treaty, passes the Iberus: besieges, and, after eight months, takes Saguntum. The Romans
Book xxii. Hannibal, after a laborious march of four days and three nights, without repose, through the marshes, in which he lost an eye, arrives in E
Book xxiii. The Campanians revolt to Hannibal. Hanno moves in the senate of Carthage to propose terms of peace to the Romans his proposition strenuou
Book xxiv. Hieronymus, king of Syracuse, takes part with the Carthaginians is put to death by his subjects, on account of his tyranny and cruelty. Ti
Book xxv. Publius Cornelius Scipio, afterwards called Africanus, elected ædile before he had attained the age required by the law. The citadel of Tare
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Book xxvi. Hannibal encamps upon the banks of the Anio, within three miles of Rome. Attended by two thousand horsemen, he advances close to the Collin
Book xxvii. Cneius Fulvius, proconsul, defeated by Hannibal, and slain: the consul Claudius Marcellus, engages him, with better success. Hannibal, rai
| For the quæstorship | 31 years. |
| curule ædileship | 37 |
| prætorship | 40 |
| consulship | 46 |