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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives of Romulus, Lycurgus, Solon, Pericles, Cato, Pompey, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Demosthenes, Cicero, Mark Antony, Brutus, and Others, and His Comparisons: With Notes, Critical and Historical From whom, and for what cause, the city of Rome oh tained that name, whose glory has diffused itself over the world, historians are not agreed. Some say the Pelasgi, after they had overrun great part of the globe, and con quered many nations, settled there, and gave their city the name of Rome, on account of their strength in war. Others tell us, that when Troy was taken, some of the Trojans having escaped and gained their ships, put to sea, and being driven by the winds upon the coasts of Tuscany, came to an anchor in the river Tiber: that here their wives being much fatigued, and no longer able to bear the hard ships of the sea, one of them, superior to the rest in birth and prudence, named Roma, proposed that they should burn the eet: that this being effected, the men at first were much exasperated, but afterwards, through necessity, fixed their seat on the Palatine hill, and in a Short time things succeeded beyond their expectation for the coun try was good, * and the people hospitable that therefore, besides other honors paid to Roma, they called their city, as She was the cause of its being built, after her name. Hence too, we are informed, the custom arose for the women to salute their relations and husbands with a kiss, because those women, when they had burned the ships, used such kind of endearments to appease the resentment of their husbands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an