The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Vols. I

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus wrote Roman Antiquities driven by the purpose of changing the way his people were seen by other cultures. Without a proper account of early Roman history, the Greeks ignored Rome’s noble roots and listened to baseless reports claiming that Rome was founded by homeless wanderers, barbarians, or slaves. Dionysius sought to reconcile Greek readers to Roman rule by...

in all of them young men clad in handsome tunics, with helmets, swords and bucklers, march in file. These are the leaders of the procession and are called by the Romans, from a game of which the Lydians seem to have been the inventors, ludiones;1 they show merely a certain resemblance, [5] in my opinion, to the Salii, since they do not, like the Salii, do any of the things characteristic of the Curetes, either in their hymns or dancing. And it was necessary that the Salii should be free men and native

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