reme insensibility.

Following the example of Homer, who represents the Gods as divided
into the favourers of the Greeks and of the Trojans, he represents
the Sabines as entering Rome, while Juno opens the gates for them;
on which the Nymphs of the spot pour forth streams of flame, which
oblige them to return. He tells the same story in the first Book of
the Fasti, where Janus is introduced as taking credit to himself for
doing what the Nymphs are here said to have effected.

As Dionysius of Halicarnassus gives some account of these
transactions, on the authority of the ancient Roman historians, it
will be sufficient here to give the substance thereof. Jealous of
the increasing power of Romulus, the Sabines collected an army, and
marched to attack his city. A virgin named Tarpeia, whose father
commanded the guard, perceiving the golden bracelets which the
Sabines wore on their arms, offered Tatius to open the gate to him,
if he would give her these jewels. This condition being assented to,
the enemy was admitted into the town; and Tarpeia, who is said by
some writers only to have intended to disarm the Sabines, by
demanding their bucklers, which she pretended were included in the
original agreement, was killed on the spot, by the violence of the
blows; Tatius having ordered that they should be thrown on her head.

The same historian says, that opinions were divided as to the death
of Romulus, and that many writers had written, that as he was
haranguing his army, the sky became overcast, and a thick darkness
coming on, it was followed by a violent tempest, in which he
disappeared; on which it was believed that Mars had taken him up to
heaven. Others assert that he was killed by the citizens, for having
sent back the hostages of the Veientes without their consent, and
for assuming an air of superiority, which their lawless spirits
could ill brook. For these reasons, his officers assassinated him,
and cut his body in pieces; each of them carrying off some portion,
that it might be privately interred. According to Livy, great
consternation was the consequence of his death; and the people
beginning to suspect that the senators had committed the crime,
Julius Proculus asserted that Romulus had appeared to him, and
assured him of the fact of his having been Deified. His speech on
the occasion is given by Livy, and Ovid relates the same story in
the se