Comte de Gabalis: Commentary Continued: RR. Romulus

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ROMULUS.

BIRTH.--But, in my opinion, the origin of so great a city, and the establishment of an empire next in power to that of the gods, was due to the Fates. The vestal Rhea, being deflowered by force, when she had

B. G. NIEBUHR, THE HISTORY OF ROME, VOL. i, PAGE 197.