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In all the world there is no folk more proud of themselves than the Romans. Their race, sung of by shrewd bards, sprang from the doughty race of haughty Troy, overthrown not by the Achaeans but by the envious gods. Aeneas the Trojan, son of Aphrodite, fleeing from the blazing walls, planted the Trojan Palladium on the banks of the Tiber, and laid the seed of the new city destined to be mistress of the world.
The Romans first took Etruscan kings and expelled tyrants who brought shame to the matrons of the city. Without Etruscan aid Rome was an orphan, surrounded by thirsty neighbours. Her men began to school themselves in the exercise of austerity, simplicity, toil and war, becoming a race of tenacious heroes that did not forgive offences in the struggle for survival: one must bury one?s enemy lest they live to bury one?s self!
The Etruscans, Sabines, Samnites, and Campanians all know full well that they have yielded to the burdensome yoke of the Senate and People of Rome. All the world will soon be under the Roman yoke, for they care not if wars be of blood and fire, nor that they be waged eternally, nor do they count the defeats. If one legion falls another rises in its place. Rome is yet more dangerous than the hydra of Lemnos: one might sever a head, but another will grow in its place to devour your entrails, despoil your fields, sack your cities and enslave your family!
Yet there is more to Rome than the sword. If you accept her severe rule, she will be a stern surrogate mother to your children and a deliverer of true justice.
A Gaul once said of the Romans "Vae Victis!" (Woe to the conquered!), and the Romans have learned this well. Since then it has been seared into the curule chair of her Consuls.