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Institutions of Romulus 337
Roman colo-
Romulus sent a colony of three hundred men into each
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nies admis-
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sion of
eity, to whom these gave a third part of their lands to be
divided among them by lot; and these Casninenses and citizenship.
Anteranates, who desired to remove to Rome, he conveyed Dionysius ii.
thither together with their wives and children, they re- ^^
taining the possession of their lands, and bringing with
them all their effects. These, who were not less than three
thousand, the king immediately incorporated with the
tribes and the curiae: so that the Romans had then for
the first time six thousand foot in all upon the register.
Thus Ctenina and Antemna, no inconsiderable cities . , .
after this war became Roman colonies.
The care of religion he intrusted to many persons. In Religion.
no other newly built city could be found so many priests
and attendants of the gods. . . . Each curia elected two
men above fifty years of age, of noble birth, of good character
and sufficient wealth, and of sound body, to act as
priests for
the remainder of their hves, exempt from military
and political duties. And as it was necessary that
the women and the children should have some part in performing
religious rites, Romulus enacted that the wives of
priests should assist their husbands in religious ser\'ices,
and that the women and children should attend to those
ceremonies which could not lawfully be performed by men.
Romulus gave the father absolute, lifelong power over
the son, including the right to scourge him, to bind him and
compel him thus to toil in the fields, or to put him to death,
even if the son chanced to be engaged in public affairs, ^6.
even if he were occupying high offices or were being commended
for his public liberality. According to this law,
illustrious men, while delivering from the rostra harangues
against the senate but in favor of the people, men who for
this reason were highly popular, have been dragged from
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father,
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