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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt:...offered to Jupiter was the most solemn paid to the heathen deities, though greatly diversified among different nations. The victims most commonly offered to him, were a goat, a sheep, or a white bull with gilded horns; sometimes the sacrifice consisted simply of flour, salt, or incense. Ancus, upon the occasion alluded to, spared nothing which could contribute to the glory of this deity, and secure his favor in behalf of Rome. The flourishing condition of the city and the numerous advantages which it offered to those who were ambitious either of obtaining wealth or honor, attracted many towards it from all the surrounding nations. Men of great riches and talents were thus on various occasions added to the number of the citizens. It happened during the reign of Ancus that an individual named Lucumo came with his family to settle at Rome. Lucumo had been for some time a resident of Tarquinii in Etruria, where indeed he was bom, though being of Corinthian origin, he was regarded as an alien. His noble air, affable manners, and great riches procured for him a wife of the highest distinction. Her name was Tanaquil, and she was herself connected with the most eminent families of Etruria. Lucumo was ambitious of honor as well as of wealth, but his efforts to obtain promotion were all in vain; the people of Tarquinii were proud of their old nobility, and unwilling to admit among their rulers a man who could not boast of a long line of ancestors, and who, moreover, was of foreign origin. All this was a subject of great mortification to Tanaquil, who could not bear that the rank of the man whom she had married should remain inferior to that of the family from which she had sprung. Filled with indignation, she began to hate even her country, and resolved to forsake it...