Book 4
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Servius Sulpicius says that this law of betrothal was observed up to the time when citizenship was given to all Latium by the Julian law. 90 B.C. The same account as the above was given also by Neratius in the book which he wrote On Marriage. Fr. 1, Bremer.
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A story which is told of the treachery of Etruscan diviners; and how because of that circumstance the boys at Rome chanted this verse all over the city: Bad counsel to the giver is most ruinous.
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The statue of that bravest of men, Horatius Cocles, which stood in the Comitium The Comitium, or place of assembly (com-, co), was a templum, or inaugurated plot of ground, orientated according to the points of the compass, at the north-western corner of the Forum Romanum. at Rome, was struck by lightning. To make expiatory offerings because of that thunderbolt, diviners were summoned from Etruria. These, through personal and national hatred of the Romans, had made up their minds to give false directions for the performance of that rite.
