Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration] 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. [Illustration] 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 of Charles the Great as head of the new Western Empire. The history has been given as briefly as could be done consistently with such details as can alone make it interesting to all classes of readers. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE. 1.--Italy 13 2.--The Wanderings of AEneas 21 3.--The Founding of Rome. B.C. 753-713 31 4.--Numa and Tullus. B.C. 713-618 39 5.--The Driving Out of the Tarquins. B.C. 578-309 47 6.--The War with Porsena 55 7.--The Roman Government 66 8.--Menenius Agrippa's Fable. B.C. 494 74 9.--Coriolanus and Cincinnatus. B.C. 458 84 10.--The Decemvirs. B.C. 450 92 11.--Camillus' Banishment 101 12.--The Sack of Rome. B.C. 390 110 13.--The Plebeian Consulate. B.C. 367 119 14.--The Devotion of Decius. B.C. 357 127 15.--The Samnite Wars 135 16.--The War with Pyrrhus. 280-271 144 17.--The First Punic War. 264-240 151 18.--Conquest of Cisalpine Gaul. 240-219 163 19.--The Second Punic War. 219 172 20. The First Eastern War. 215-183 181 21.--The Conquest of Greece, Corinth, and Carthage. 179-145 188 22.--The Gracchi. 137-122 195 23.--The Wars of Marius. 106-98 203 24.--The Adventures of Marius. 93-84 212 25.--Sulla's Proscription. 88-71 220 26.--The Career of Pompeius. 70-63 229 27.--Pompeius and Caesar. 61-48 242 28.--Julius Caesar. 48-44 252 29.--The Second Triumvirate. 44-33 263