They had spears, round shields, and short pointed swords, which cut on each side of the blade.

Tullus is said to have fixed how many men of each tribe should be called out to war.

He also walled in the city again with a wall five miles round; and he made many fixed laws, one being that when a man was in debt his goods might be seized, but he himself might not be made a slave.

He was the great friend of the plebeians, and first established the rule that a new law of the Senate could not be made without the consent of the Comitia, or whole free people.
The Sabines and Romans were still striving for the mastery, and a husbandman among the Sabines had a wonderfully beautiful cow.

An oracle declared that the man who sacrificed this cow to Diana upon the Aventine Hill would secure the chief power to his nation.