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.

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.

1.—Italy

2.—The Wanderings of Æneas

3.—The Founding of Rome. B.C. 753-713

4.—Numa and Tullus. B.C. 713-618.

5.—The Driving Out of the Tarquins. B.C. 578-309

6.—The War with Porsena

7.—The Roman Government

8.—Menenius Agrippa's Fable. B.C. 494

9.—Coriolanus and Cincinnatus. B.C. 458

10.—The Decemvirs. B.C. 450

11.—Camillus' Banishment

12.—The Sack of Rome. B.C. 390

13.—The Plebeian Consulate. B.C. 367

14.—The Devotion of Decius. B.C. 357

15.—The Samnite Wars

16.—The War with Pyrrhus. 280-271

17.—The First Punic War. 264-240

18.—Conquest of Cisalpine Gaul. 240-219

19.—The Second Punic War. 219

20.—The First Eastern War. 215-183

21.—The Conquest of Greece, Corinth, and Carthage. 179-145

22.—The Gracchi. 137-122

23.—The Wars of Marius. 106-98

24.—The Adventures of Marius. 93-84

25.—Sulla's Proscription. 88-71

26.—The Career of Pompeius. 70-63

27.—Pompeius and Cæsar. 61-48

28.—Julius Cæsar. 48-44

29.—The Second Triumvirate. 44-33

30.—Cæsar Augustus. B.C. 33-A.D. 14

31.—Tiberius and Caligula. A.D. 14-41

32.—Claudius and Nero. A.D. 41-68

33.—The Flavian Family. 62-96

34.—The Age of the Antonines. 96-194