War with the Sabines-The Augur Attus Navius Ire was also making preparations for surrounding the City with a stone。 wall吵en蟀designs_ were interrupted妙a war with the }5abines. 5o sudden was the outbreak that the enemy were crossing the Anio before a Roman army could meet and stop them. There was great alarm in Rome. The firs七battle Was indecisive, and there was great slang] ter on both sides.The enemies' return to their camp allowed time for the Romans to make preparations for a fresh campaign. Tarquin thought his army was weakest in cava妙and decided to double the cen-turzes which Romulus had formed, of the Ramnes, Titienses and Luceres ，and to distinguish them by his own name. Now as Romulus had acted under the sanction of the auspices Attus Navius, a celebrated auzur atthattilne.insiste dtime. insisted that no V 了一，二。.Q could be made, nothing new introduced, unless the birds gave a favourable omen. The king's anger was roused, and in mockery of the augur's skill he is reported to have said,“Come, you diviner, find out by your augury whether what I am now contemplating can be done." Attus, after consulting the omens, declared that it could.“Well," the king replied,“I had it in my mind that you should cut a whetstone with a razor. Take these, and perform the feat which your birds portend b done." It is said that without the slightest hesitation Ct上 n、" e衣‘ C. U it through. There used to be a statue of八tti 玲, representings him with his head covered, in the Comitium, on the steps to比e left of the senate-house, where the incident occurred. Thewhetstone also, it is recorded, was placed there to be a memorial of the marvel for future generations. At all events, auguries and the college of augurs were held in such honour that nothi ng was undertaken in peace or war without their sanction 七he assembly of the curies，the assembly of the centuries, matters of the mzhest unortance. were susDenaea or oroyenUT) it 1110 omen of the birds was untavouraoie. .given on tnat occasion, Tarquin was deterred from making changes in the names or numbers of the centuries of knights;he merely doubled the number of men in each, so that the three centuries contained eizhteen hundred men. Those who were added to the centuries bore the same designation, only they were called the“Second” kn蜘s, and the centuries being thus doubled are now called the“six Centuries."