However this may be, the Sabines were in possession of the citadel. And they would not come down from it the next day, though the Roman. army was drawn up in battle array over the whole of the ground between the Palatine and the Capitoline hill, until, exasperated at the loss of their citadel and determined to recover it, the Romans mounted to the attack. Advan cin before the rest, Mettius Curtius。on the side of the Sabines and Hostius Hostilius, on the side Romans, engaged in single combat, Hostius, fighting advantageous ground, upheld the fortunes ofRome intrepid bravery, but at last he fell; the Roman line broke and fled to what was then the eyate of the Palatine. EvenRomulus was bein sweet away by tae crowd of tuzxtxves。and itttzna uD his hands to heaven he exclaimed:“Jupiter, it was thy omen that I obeyed when工laid here on the Palatine the earliest foundations of the City. Now the Sabines hold its citade 1勺d having bought it by a bribe, and coed ing thence have seize the valley and are pressing hitherwards in battle. Do thou Father of gods and men, drive hence our foes, banish terror from Roman hearts, and stay our sharneful flight!Here do I vow a temple to thee,‘Jove the Stayer,' as a memorial for the generations to come that it is through thy present help that the City has been saved，，’Then, as aware that his graver had been heard，he cried，“Back, Romans! ~.~。八~七._一_J一.‘一产._ Jupiter Uptimus Maximus bids you stand and renew the battle.” They stopped. as though commandeRomulus dashed up to the foremost盗a voice from. heaven---just as Mettius Curtius had run down front the citadel in front of the Sabines and driven the Romans in headlong flight over the whole. of the ground4 Y . Y "wl Y0.it r . Y now occupied by the r orum. He was now nor tar from the gate of the Palatine, and was shouting:“We have conquered our faithless hosts, our cowardly foes;now they know that to carry off maidens is a very different thing from fighting with men." In the midst of these vaunts Romulus, with a compact Mettius, unable to control his horse, maddened by the noise of his pursuers, plungged into a morass.The danzer of their general drew off the attention of the Sabines for a moment from the battle;they called out and made signals to encourage him, so, animated to fresh efforts, he succeeded in extricating himself. ThereUDon the Romans and Sabines renewed the rignting in the mxactie of the vaitey, out the tortune of .Kome was in the ascendant.