After some consideration, a plan is adopted on both sides, for which Fortune herself afforded the materials.
[Footnote 30: _Mettus_.

Gronovius and Bekker read _Mettius_; Niebuhr also prefers _Mettius_; he conceives that the Latin _praenomina_ and the Roman _nomina_ terminated in _ius_.] [Footnote 31: _Injurias et non redditas_, etc.

The construction is, _et ego videor audisse regem nostrum Cluilium (prae se ferre) injurias et non redditas res ...

nec dubito te ferre eadem prae te, Tulle_.] 24.

It happened that there were in each of the two armies three brothers[32] born at one birth, unequal neither in age nor strength.
That they were called Horatii and Curiatii is certain enough; nor is there any circumstance of antiquity more celebrated; yet in a matter so well ascertained, a doubt remains concerning their names, to which nation the Horatii and to which the Curiatii belonged.