Sabines
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Sabine maidens · Sabine man · the Sabines
in the texts
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 since report bore that Numa Pompilius excelled in these, the people itself, passing over its own citizens, with the fathers as its authors, took to itself a king of foreign birth, and summoned that Sabine man to Rome from Cures to reign.
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.