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Often appears with: sabine women · romulus and violence · rape and abduction narratives · political legitimacy and consent · political exile · kinship, lineage, and clan · crime and punishment
Usually: list or catalogue (1) · censure (1) · indignation (1)
“The people, overwhelmed by these oppressive measures, and most of all by exorbitant usury, and obliged to contribute both money and personal service to the constant wars, at length took arms, and seceded to Mount Aventine and Mount Sacer, and thus obtained for themselves tribunes and protective laws.” Augustine (Aurelius Augustine), Saint of Hippo, The City of God, Volume I · vivid
Augustine lists Roman early injustices to refute claims that Romans were equitable by nature, including the rape of the Sabine women, treatment of Collatinus, and persecution of Camillus.
subject the people, and the people resented their encroachments, and the advocates of either party were actuated rather by the love of victory than by any equitable or virtuous consideration. 18. _What the history of Sallust reveals regarding the life of the Romans, either when straitened by anxiety or relaxed in security._ I will therefore pause, and adduce the testimony of Sallust himself, whose words in pr…