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Pope's Doortender
THE POPE'S DOORTENDER

YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY

OF

ROME.

BY

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE,

AUTHOR OF "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE," "BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS," "YOUNG FOLKS'HISTORY OF FRANCE," &c.

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BOSTON:

ESTES & LAURIAT,

301 WASHINGTON STREET.

COPYRIGHT BY

D. LOTHROP & CO. and ESTES & LAURIAT.

1880.


PREFACE.


This sketch of the History of Rome covers the period till the reign ofCharles the Great as head of the new Western Empire. The history hasbeen given as briefly as could be done consistently with such details ascan alone make it interesting to all classes of readers.

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.


CONTENTS.

1.—Italy



2.—The Wanderings of Æneas



3.—The Founding of Rome. B.C. 753-713



4.—Numa and Tullus. B.C. 713-618.



5.—The Driving Out of the Tarquins. B.C. 578-309



6.—The War with Porsena



7.—The Roman Government



8.—Menenius Agrippa's Fable. B.C. 494



9.—Coriolanus and Cincinnatus. B.C. 458



10.—The Decemvirs. B.C. 450



11.—Camillus' Banishment



12.—The Sack of Rome. B.C. 390



13.—The Plebeian Consulate. B.C. 367



14.—The Devotion of Decius. B.C. 357



15.—The Samnite Wars



16.—The War with Pyrrhus. 280-271



17.—The First Punic War. 264-240



18.—Conquest of Cisalpine Gaul. 240-219



19.—The Second Punic War. 219



20.—The First

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