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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 45

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een admitted to the rights of citizenship, hechanged his name to Lucius Tarquinius : for the sake, perhaps, ofthe sound, in the absence of any sounder reason. He was introducedat Court, where he won the favour of Ancus, who was so much takenby his dashing exterior, that he gave him a commission in… … Celeres. The Captain made himself so generally useful to Ancus, that whenthe latter died, his two sons were left to the guardianship of theformer, who, on the day fixed for the election of a new king, sent hiswards to the chase, that they might be pursuing other game, instead oflooking after the…

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