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TULLUS HOSTILIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 368 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TULLUS HOSTILIUS , third legendary See also:

king of See also:Rome (672–640 B.C.). His successful See also:wars with See also:Alba, See also:Fidenae and See also:Veii See also:shadow forth the earlier conquests of Latian territory and the first See also:extension of the See also:Roman domain beyond the walls of Rome. It was during his reign that the combat between the See also:Horatii and Curiatii, the representatives of Rome and Alba, took See also:place. He is said to have been struck dead by See also:lightning as the See also:punishment of his See also:pride. Tullus Hostilius is simply the duplicate of See also:Romulus. Both See also:ate brought up among shepherds, carry on See also:war against Fidenae and Veii, See also:double the number of citizens, organize the See also:army, and disappear from See also:earth in a See also:storm. As Romulus and Numa represent the Ramnes and Tities, so, in See also:order to See also:complete the See also:list of the four traditional elements of the nation, Tullus was made the representative of the Luceres, and Ancus the founder of the See also:Plebs. The distinctive event of this reign is the destruction of Alba, which may be regarded as an See also:historical fact. But when and by whom it was destroyed is uncertain—probably at a later date, by the Latins, and not by the See also:Romans, who would have regarded as impious the destruction of their traditional See also:mother-See also:country. See See also:Livy i. 22–31; See also:Dion. Halic. iii.

1—35; See also:

Cicero, de Republica, ii. 17. For a See also:critical examination of the See also:story see See also:Schwegler, Romische Geschichte, bk. xii. ; See also:Sir G: Cornewall See also:Lewis, Credibility of See also:early Roman See also:History, ch. 11; W. Ihne, Hist. of Rome, vol. i.; E. Pais, Storia di See also:Roma, vol, i. (1898) ; 0. See also:Gilbert, Geschichte and Topographie der Stadt Rom See also:im Altertum, ii. (1885) ; G. F. Schemann, " De Tullo Hostilio rege romano " in his Opuscula, i.

18-49; also ROME: See also:

Ancient History.

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