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发帖数: 759 | 1 CHAP. 17. -- OF THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN, AND OTHER
INIQUITIES PERPETRATED IN ROME'S PALMIEST
DAYS.
But possibly we are to find the reason for this neglect of
the Romans by their gods, in the saying of Sallust, that
"equity and virtue prevailed among
the Romans not more by force of laws than of nature."(1) I
presume it is to this inborn equity and goodness of
disposition we are to ascribe the rape
of the Sabine women. What, indeed, could be more equitable
and virtuous, than to carry off by f |
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