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

362 The Early Republic
Treaty
between
Rome and
the Latins,
493 B.C.
Dionysius
vi. s.
A ncient
World, 352.
"The Carthaginians, on the other hand, shall do no injury
to the people of Antium, Laurentum, Circeii,
Tarracina,
or any other people of the Latins who are subject to
Rome. Nor shall they possess themselves of any town of
the Latins which is not subject to Rome. If they take one
of these towns, they shall deliver it unharmed to the
Romans.
"The Carthaginians shall build no fort in Latium; and if
they land an armed force there, they shall depart before
night."
[A few years afterward the Romans concluded with the
Latins the following treaty:]
"Let there be peace between the Romans and all
Latin cities
their present position.
the
as long as heaven and earth shall remain in
"Let them neither make war upon one another themselves,
nor bring in foreign enemies, nor grant a safe passage
to those who shall make war upon either.
"Let them with all their forces assist one another when
attacked by enemies, and let both have equal shares of the
spoils and booty taken in their common wars.
"Let suits relating to private contracts be determined in
ten days among that people among whom the contract was
made.
"Let nothing be added to, or taken from, these treaties
except by the joint consent of the Romans and all the
Latins."
II.
Sack of Rome by the Gauls
The battle
of the Allia,
390 B.C.
Plutarch,
Camillus, 13.
Every Roman believes that the prayers of Camillus
were quickly heard by Jupiter, and that a terrible retribution
was exacted for his wrongs. (For it was while he was
in exile that the Gauls came.)