The consul would not overlook this breach of discipline, and the unhappy youth was executed by the lector in the presence of the assembled army. But the young Manlius, the son of the consul, provoked by the insults of a Tuscan noble, accepted his challenge, slew his adversary, and bore the bloody spoils in triumph to his father. Shortly before the battle, when the two armies were encamped opposite one another, the consuls published a proclamation that no Roman should engage in single combat with a Latin on pain of death. Decius Mus gained a great victory over the Latins at the foot of Vesuvius, which established forever the supremacy of Rome over Latium. From this circumstance he obtained the surname Torquatus. Quintius Pennus in the war against the Gauls, and in this campaign earned immortal glory by slaying a gigantic Gaul, from whose dead body he took the chain ( torquis) which had adorned him, and placed it about his own neck. In 361 Manlius served under the dictator T. As soon as the younger Manlius heard of this he hurried to Rome, obtained admission to Pomponius early in the morning and compelled the tribune by threatening him with instant death to take an oath to drop the accusation against his father. Pomponius accused the elder Manlius on account of the cruelties he had practiced in his dictatorship, he endeavored to excite public enmity against him by representing him as a cruel and tyrannical father. Manlius is said to have been dull of mind in his youth, and was brought up by his father in the in the country. Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosus, dictator in 363 BCE, was a favorite hero of Roman story. For this reason he and his descendants were called Torquati, which means necklace. He slew a Gaul who challenged him, took away his golden necklace, and put it about his own neck. Manlius (Manilius) Torquatus, son of Laelius Manlius, made war against the Gauls. Two hundred twenty-five years after the building of Rome, the Romans, having been defeated by the Sabines, elected a regent whom they called a dictator, with authority and powers greater than those of the consuls. In the opposite portrait Publicola is associated with Postumus without text reference to the latter. He became a great favorite with the people, receiving the surname Publicola (‘Honored by the People' or ‘Guardian of the People'). He secured the liberties of the people by several laws and ordered the lectors to lower the fasces before the people as an acknowledgement that their rights were superior to those of the consuls. Publicola took part in the expulsion of the Tarquins, and was thereupon elected consul with Brutus (509 BCE). These two Romans (referring to woodcut opposite) defeated the Sabines and were accorded a triumph but Valerius died poor. She foretold that out of eternity a miraculous birth would take place in this world through a virgin and that the iron people would come to an end and a golden people would spring up. The Cumaean Sibyl (Sibylla Cumana), who lived in the time of Tarquinius Priscus, is clad in a dress of gold, and has a tall open book in her hand, and also a book in the left hand, resting on her knee. Collatinus was relieved of his office, for it was decided that the name of Tarquinius was to be banished from the city of Rome. Brutus caused them to be beaten with rods and then to be killed with an axe. Brutus had two sons who wanted to re-establish the kingship. The first two conducted a war against Porsena (Porsemia), king of the Etrurians. Of these we will here mention the foremost. In the 224th year after the building of the city of Rome, when the line of the Roman kings came to an end, the people appointed consuls in the place of kings, who were to govern for but one year so that in the passage of years they would not become too arrogant.
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