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Title: Romulus, Makers of History

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: January 3, 2009 [EBook #27692]

Language: English

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Makers of History

Romulus

BY JACOB ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1901

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York.

Copyright, 1880, by BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT, AUSTIN ABBOTT,
LYMAN ABBOTT, and EDWARD ABBOTT.

[Illustration: THE HARPIES.]

PREFACE

In writing the series of historical narratives to which the present
work pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish to the
reading community of this country an accurate and faithful account of
the lives and actions of the several personages that are made
successively the subjects of the volumes, following precisely the
story which has come down to us from ancient times. The writer has
spared no pains to gain access in all cases to the original sources of
information, and has confined himself strictly to them. The reader
may, therefore, feel assured in perusing any one of these works, that
the interest of it is in no degree indebted to the invention of the
author. No incident, however trivial, is ever added to the original
account, nor are any words even, in any case, attributed to a speaker
without express authority. Whatever of interest, therefore, these
stories may possess, is due solely to the facts themselves which are
recorded in them, and to their being brought together in a plain,
simple, and connected narrative.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. CADMUS 13

II. CADMUS'S LETTERS 36

III. THE STORY OF AENEAS