And this number he doubled, after having conquered the AEquicoli, a large and ferocious people, and dangerous enemies of the Roman State.

Having likewise repulsed from our walls an invasion of the Sabines, he routed them by the aid of his cavalry, and subdued them.

He also was the first person who instituted the grand games which are now called the Roman Games.

He fulfilled his vow to build a temple to the all-good and all-powerful Jupiter in the Capitol--a vow which he made during a battle in the Sabine war--and died after a reign of thirty-eight years.
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Then Laelius said: All that you have been relating corroborates the saying of Cato, that the constitution of the Roman Commonwealth is not the work of one man, or one age; for we can clearly see what a great progress in excellent and useful institutions was continued under each successive king.