Sabines
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Sabine maidens · Sabine man · the Sabines
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On the Commonwealth
Neighboring people whose women were abducted by Romulus and who were later merged into the Roman citizenry
and the same man, when he had driven back the Sabines from the walls of the city, routed them with his cavalry and conquered them in war.
For which cause, when the Sabines had made war upon the Romans, and the contest of battle had been varied and doubtful, he struck a treaty with Titus Tatius, king of the Sabines, the matrons themselves who had been carried off entreating it;
And after the death of Tatius, when all dominion had fallen back to him—although together with Tatius he had chosen into the royal council leading men (who were called, for the affection borne them, the fathers), and had divided the people, in his own name and in Tatius's and in that of Lucumo, who as Romulus's ally had fallen in the Sabine battle, into three tribes and thirty curias (which curias …
The Rights of War and Peace
People cited as an example of rights transferred to Rome upon union.
Thus the rights of the Albans in the first place, and afterwards those of the Sabines, as we are informed by Livy, were transferred to the Romans, and they became one government.