And since, after a tempest that suddenly arose, in the thirty-seventh year of his reign, he was no longer to be seen, he was believed to have been translated to the gods, and was accordingly deified. Wars having arisen in consequence of this outrage in capturing the females, he conquered the Caeninenses, the Antemnates, the Crustumini, the Sabines, the Fidenates, and the Vejentes all whose towns lay around the city.
Next, as both himself and his people were in want of wives, he invited the tribes contiguous to the city to an exhibition of games, and seized upon their young women. He took a great number of the neighbouring inhabitants into the city he chose a hundred of the older men, by whose advice he might manage all his affairs, and whom, from their age, he named senators. After founding the city, which he called Rome, from his own name, he proceeded principally as follows. While leading a predatory life among the shepherds, he founded, when he was eighteen years of age, a small city on the Palatine Hill, on the 21st day of April, in the third year of the sixth Olympiad, and the three hundred and ninety-fourth after the destruction of THE Roman empire, than which the memory of man can recall scarcely any one smaller in its commencement, or greater in its progress throughout the world, had its origin from Romulus who, being the son of a vestal virgin, and, as was supposed, of Mars, was brought forth at one birth with his brother Remus. The Decemviri, XVIII.-War with the Fidenates, Vejeutes, and Volsci, XIX. XV.-War of the Fabii with the Vejentes the census, XVI.-Dictatorship of Cincinnatus, XVII. Coriolanus, being banished, makes war on his country with the aid of the Volsci is softened by the entreaties of his wife and mother.
XI.-First dictator, XII.- Sedition of the people, and origin of the tribunitial power, XIII.-A victory over the Volsci, XIV. Origin of Rome, I.-Characters and acts of the seven kings of Rome, II.-VIII.-Appointment of consuls on the expulsion of Tarquin the Proud, IX.-War raised by Tarquin he is supported by Porsena, X. 1ĪCCORDING to the pleasure of your Clemency, 2 I have arranged in a brief narrative, in the order of time, such particulars in the history of Rome as seemed most worthy of notice, in transactions either of war or peace, from the foundation of the city to our own days adding concisely, also, such matters as were remarkable in the lives of the emperors that your Serenity's divine mind may rejoice to learn that it has followed the actions of illustrious men in governing the empire, before it became acquainted with them by TO THE EMPEROR VALENS, MAXIMUS, PERPETUUS, AUGUSTUS. Eutropius, Abridgment of Roman History (Historiae Romanae Breviarium)