7. ¶Hersilia and the rest of the women of her kin on discovering them one day drawn up in opposing ranks ran down from the Palatine with their little children (children had already been born), and rushing suddenly into the space between the armies aroused much pity by their words and their actions. Looking now at the one side and now at the other they cried: "Why, fathers, do you do this? Why, husbands, do you do it? When will you stop fighting? When will you stop hating each other? Make peace with your sons-in-law! Make peace with your fathers-in-law! For Pan's sake spare your children, for Quirinus's sake your grandchildren! Pity your daughters, pity your wives! For if you refuse to make peace and some bolt of madness has fallen upon your heads to drive you to frenzy, then kill at once us, the causes of your contention, and slay at once the little children whom you hate, that with no longer any name or bond of kinship between you you may gain the greatest of evils--to slay the grandsires of your children and the fathers of your grandchildren." As they said this they tore open their garments and exposed their breasts and abdomens, while some pressed themselves against the swords and others threw their children against them. Moved by such sounds and sights the men began to weep, so that they desisted from battle and came together for a conference there, just as they were, in the _comitium_, which received its name from this very event. (Mai, p. 137.) 8. Tribous Trittys; or a third part. Romulus's heavy-armed men, three thousand in number (as Dio tells us in the first book of his History), were divided into three sections called _tribous_, i. e. trittyes, which the Greeks also termed "tribes." Each trittys was separated into ten _Curiæ_ or "thinking bodies"--_cura_ meaning thoughtfulness--and the men who were appointed to each particular _curia_ came together and thought out the business in hand. Among the Greeks the _curiae_ are called _phratriae_ and _phatriae_--in other words _associations, brotherhoods unions, guilds_--from the fact that men of the same _phratry phrased_ or revealed to one another their own intentions without scruple or fear. Hence fathers or kinsmen or teachers are _phrators_,--those who share in the same _phratry_. But possibly it was derived from the Roman word _frater_, which signifies "brother." (--Glossar. Nom. Labbaei.) 9. (And he named the people _populus_.) Hence in the Law Books the popular assembly has the name _popularia_. (Zonaras 7, 3 (vol. 11, p. 91, 17 and 18.) Cp. Haupt, _Hermes_ XIV.) 10. She [i. e. Tarpeia] having come down for water was seized and brought to Tatius, and was induced to betray the fathers. (Zonaras, ib., p. 93, 15-17.) 11. It is far better for them [senate-houses?] to be established anew than having existed previously to be named over. (Mai, p. 137.)