Peace and Union with Me Sabines.-Then it was that the Sabine women, whose wrongs had led to the war, throwing off all womanish fears in their distress, went boldly into the midst of the flying missiles with dishevelled hair and rent garments. Punning across the space between the two ar刀nleg they tried to stop any further fighting and calm the excited passions by appealing to their fathers in the one army and their husbands in the other not to bring upon thethemselves tnselvesa curse by staining their hands with the blood of a father-in-law or a son.-in-law, nor upon their posterity the。to娜。of.parricide,, “if," they cried, “you are weary of these ties of ,kindred, these marriage-bonds, then turn your anger upon us;it is we who are the cause of the war, it is we who have wounded and slain our husbands and fathers. Better for us to perish rather than live without one or the other of you, as widows.or as orphans." The armies anct tnexr leaders were anxe movec i py tnis appeal. There，was a sudden hush and silence. 'When the generals advanced to arrange the terms of a treaty. It was not only that was}za.aa}，the two nations were united into one State, the royal power was shared between them, and the seat }f government for both nations was Rome. .after thus doubling concession was made to the Sabines in the neWI appellation of Quirites, from their old capital of Cures. As a memorial of the battle, the place got his horse out of the deep marsh on to safer around was called the Curtian lake. The Curies and Centuries.-----Thejoyful peace, which put an abrupt close to such a deplorable wax, made the Sabine women still dearer to their husbands and fathers, and most of all to Romulus himself. Consequently when he effected the distribution of the people into the thirty curiae, he affixed their names to the curiae. No doubt there were many more than thirty women, and tradition is silent as to whether those whose names were，妙en to the cur介e. were， selected，。“t坪,ground of age, or.ti on tear ox personal axsrxnction-eztner their own or their husbands'---or merely by lot. The enrolment of the three centuries of knights took place at the same time;the Ramnenses were called after Romulus, the Titienses from T. Tatius. The origin of the Luceres and why they were so called is uncertain. Thenceforward the two kings exercised their joint sovereignty