A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

338 Rome Under the Kings
Rome, p. 73.
(The consul
who put his
Sun to death
for disobedience.)
Dionysius ii.
27.
the rostra by their fathers to suffer whatever punishment
the latter should think right. And while these sons were
led away through the market-place, no one was able to rescue
them—neither the consul, nor tribune of the plebs, nor
the mob whom they were flattering, and who considered its
own power superior to all authority. I will not mention
those whom fathers have slain, good men moved by virtue
and zeal to achieve some noble deed forbidden by their
parent. Such was the case with ManHus Torquatus and
many others, in regard to whom I shall speak at the proper
time.
The Roman legislator did not limit the father's authority
at this point, but gave him permission to sell the
son . . . granting to the father more power over the son
than to the master over his slaves; for if a slave is sold and
afterward given his liberty, henceforth he remains free,
whereas if the son is sold by the father and then liberated,
he falls again under the paternal power, and a second time
in like manner; not till after the third sale does he become
free from his father.
II.
NUMA POMPILIUS
His religious
institutions.
Livy i. 19.
(Argiletum,
a piece of
ground between
the
Quirinal and
the Forum.)
After Numa had been made king in this way, he set
about founding anew, on the principles of law and morals,
When he
the city recently established by force of arms.
saw that the spirit of the citizens, rendered savage by
military life, could not be reconciled to those principles
during the continuance of wars, he concluded that his
fierce nation should be softened by the disuse of arms.
At the foot of Argiletum, therefore, he erected a temple of
Janus as an index of peace and war; when open, it should
show that the state was engaged in war, and its closing
should signify that all the neighboring nations were at