Identifier: storyofromefrome00macg (find matches)
Title: The story of Rome, from the earliest times to the death of Augustus, told to boys and girls
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Macgregor, Mary
Subjects: Rome -- History
Publisher: London, Edinburgh : T. C. & E. C. Jack
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ched the combatwith the keenest interest, and when at length, after a gallantfight, Manlius slew his opponent, a shout of triumph arosefrom his comrades. But the Latins looked on, sullenand ashamed, while their champion was stripped of hisarms. Flushed with victory, and thinking that his father wouldforgive his disobedience, the youth hastened to the tent ofTorquatus, and laid the arms he had taken from his foe athis fathers feet. But discipline was dear to the Consuls heart, and hedid not greet his son as he entered the tent, but turnedcoldly away from him. Had it been any other who haddisobeyed, punishment swift and sharp would have descendedon the culprit. It made Torquatus angry to think that he should dreameven for a moment of being more merciful to his own sonthan to another. He loved discipline, but he loved his sonas well. So it was with a mighty effort that he resolvedthat, although it was his own son who had transgressed,punishment swift and sharp should be inflicted on him.
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i he youth laid the arms he had taken from his foe at his father s feet. THE DREAM OF THE TWO CONSULS 121 Cold and stern, the Consuls voice rang out, bidding thesoldiers assemble in front of his tent, and there, before themall, he ordered that his son should be beheaded. No one dared to dispute the order of the Consul, andthe soldiers looked on in horror while their brave youngcomrade was put to death because of his disobedience. The soldiers hated Torquatus for his severity, and neverforgot it. But if they hated, they also feared, and neveragain were his commands disobeyed. The second story is about a terrible battle that wasfought close to Mount Vesuvius. It was the night before the battle that the two Consuls,Torquatus and Decius Mus, both dreamed the same dream. A man taller than any mortal appeared to each of theConsuls, and warned him that in the battle which was tobe fought, both sides must suffer, one losing its leader, theother its whole army. In the morning, when the Consuls

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