Then they disappeared, and the next morning Posthumius' messenger brought the news.

The Romans had no doubt that these were indeed the glorious twins, and built their temple, as Valerius had vowed.
[Illustration: ROMAN ENSIGNS, STANDARDS, TRUMPETS ETC.] Tarquin had lost all his sons, and died in wretched exile at Cumae.

And here ends what is looked on as the legendary history of Rome, for though most of these stories have dates, and some sound possible, there is so much that is plainly untrue mixed up with them, that they can only be looked on as the old stories which were handed down to account for the Roman customs and copied by their historians..