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If it be for our. own cause, then take us, and with us your sons-in-law and grandchildren. Restore to us our parents and kindred, but do not rob us of our children and hus- bands. Make us not, we entreat you, twice captives." Hersilia having spoken many such words as these, and the others earnestly praying, a truce was made, and the chief officers came to a parley ; the women, in the mean time, brought ami presented their husbands and children to their fathers and brothers ; gave those that wanted, meat and drink, and carried the wounded home to be cured, and showed also how much they governed within doors, and how indulgent their husbands were to them, in de- meaning themselves towards them with all kindness and respect imaginable. Upon this, conditions were agreed upon, that what women pleased might stay where they were, exempt, as aforesaid, from all drudgery and labor but spinning; that the Romans and Sabines should in- habit the city together ; that the city should be called Rome, from Rom id us; but the Romans, Quirites, from the country of Tatius ; and that they both should govern and command in common. The place of the ratification is still called Comitium, from coire, to meet. The city being thus doubled in number, an hundred of the Sabines were elected senators, and the legions were increased to six thousand foot and six hundred horse ; then they divided the people into three tribes ; the first, from Romulus, named Ramnenses ; the second, from Tatius, Tatienses ; the third, Luceres, from the lucus, or grove, where the Asylum stood, whither many fled for sanctuary, and were received into the city. And that they were just three, the very name of tribe and tribune seems to show ; each tribe contained ten curise, or bro- therhoods, which, some say, took their names from the Sabine women ; but that seems to be false, because

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