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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 25

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forced his niece, b 2 COMIC BISTORT or ROMi:. [cnAP. i. and it lias been the subject of complaint in more recent times thatRome still occasionally floes as Rome used to do. We will now returnto Rhea Silvia, who appears to have entered the service of the goddessas a maid-of-all-work; for she was in… … Rliea Silvia. Rhea Silvia gave birth to twins ; upon which her cruel uncle orderedher to be put to death, and desired that her infant offspring should betreated as a couple of unwelcome puppies, and got rid of by drowning inthe ordinary manner. The children were placed in a cradle, or, as some say,…

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