Livy 1.10

Now the spirits of the seized (dat. pos.) had been greatly appeased.  But the parents of those seized then most greatly were agitating their state with mourning garment and tears and complaints.  [Nec] Nor only were they containing their indignations at home, but everywhere they were gathering to Titus Tatius, king of the Sabines, and legations were convening to him because the name of Tatius was the greatest in these regions.  The Caeninenses, and the Crustumini, and the Antemnates were to whom part of this injury pertained.  Tatius and the Sabines seemed to act slowly to them; these peoples themselves among the three commonly prepare war.  [Ne]  Not even the Crustumini and the Antemnates move themselves energetically enough for the ardor and anger of the Caeninenses: thus on its own behalf the very name Caeninus makes an attack on Roman territory.  [Sed] But Romulus with an army happens upon those pillaging in scattered flight, and a light battle teaches that anger without strength is empty.  He routes and puts the army to flight; he pursues the routed.  He kills and despoils the king in the battle; with the leader of the enemy having been killed he takes the city in the first attack.

Then, the victorious army having been lead back, he himself, because he was then a hero magnificent in deeds no less than a displayer of deeds, bearing the spoils of the slaughtered leader of the enemy hung from a fork made fit for this he climbed the Capitolium and there, when he had deposited these at the oak sacred to the shepherds, at the same time when he marked with the gift the boundaries for a temple to Jove, and he added the cognomen to the god.  “Juppiter Feretrius,” he said, “I, Romulus, victor (and) king, bear these royal weapons to you, and I dedicate a temple in these regions which I have measured out in purpose (and) in will, a seat for the best spoils, which my descendants, following me as author, will carry from slaughtered kings and leaders of the enemy.”  This is the origin of the temple, which first of all is sacred to Rome.  Thus then seen by the gods and the voice of the temple founder was not in vain, by which he announced that his descendants would bear spoils here and his praise was not made common by a multitude of those in possession of this gift.  Twice after among so many years, so many wars have the best spoils been provided: so rare was the fortune of this glory.

Livy 1.9

The Roman state was now so strong that it was equal in war to any of the neighboring states; but by a shortage of women its multitude was about to last a lifetime of a man, for they had neither hope of offspring at home nor marriage with their neighbors.  [Tum] Then from the advice of the fathers Romulus sent ambassadors around the neighboring tribes who sought alliance and marriage for the new people: the city also as all other things were born from the lowest; then, whom their own virtue and the gods aid, they made great wealth and a great name for themselves.  [Satis] It was enough to know for the Roman origin both that the gods had been present and that courage would not be lacking.  Finally let the men not be reluctant to mix blood and race with the men.  [Nusquam] Never was the legation heard kindly: they both were so spurning and fearing such a mass growing in their midst for themselves and their own descendants; they were dismissed by very many asking if they had opened any refuge also for women: for this at last would be an equal marriage.  The Roman youth endured this with difficulty, and unmistakably (lit. hardly dubiously) the matter began to look to force.

To which to give a suitable time and place, concealing his mortification of spirit, Romulus prepares solemn games industriously (lit. from industry) for equestrian Neptune; he calls (them) the Consualia.  [Indici] He orders then the spectacle to be publicized to the neighbors, the celebrated with as much magnificence as they then knew or were able, to make the event outstanding and anticipated.  Many men gathered, with zeal also for seeing the new city, all their nearest, the Caeninenses, the Crustumini, the Antemnates; now the whole multitude of the Sabines came with their children and wives.  [Invitati] Having been invited hospitably through the homes when they saw the location and walls and the city crowded with homes, they wonder that the Roman state had grown in so short a time.  When the time for the spectacle came, their minds were so dedicated to it with their minds, then violence arose by agreement (lit. from having been arranged), and a signal having been given the Roman youth runs down to seize the maidens.  [Magna] A great part were seized by chance in which (place) each had happened upon; men from the plebs to whom the business had been given were carrying to their homes some women outstanding in form marked out for the first of the fathers.  They say a certain one was seized, distinguished far before others in form and beauty, by the band of Thalassius, again and again, lest any violate, it was shouts that (she) was carried off for Thalassius: thence this was made the wedding call.  [Turbato] With the festival having been disturbed through fear, the sad parents of the maidens flee, protesting against and calling upon the treaty of the violated hospitality and the god to whose ceremony and games through right and faith deceived they had come.  Nor for those seized is either the hope better for themselves or the indignity less.  [Sed] But Romulus himself was going around and was teaching them that this was done through the haughtiness of their fathers who had denied marriage with their neighbors.  Yet those would be in matrimony, in the alliances of all fortunes and of the state, and of children, than which nothing is dearer to human kind.  [Mollirent] Let them only soften their angers and to whom chance had given their bodies, let them give their spirits.  Often from injury arose afterward favor, and by this they would find better husbands, because each would strive though himself to fill the desire for parents and also for country when he performed his duty for his part.  [Accedebant] The flatteries of their husbands were increased by the desire and love of those seeking to excuse the deed, which most greatly were effective prayers for the womanly spirit.

Livy 1.8

With divine matters having been attended to by rite and the multitude, which was able to gather into the body of one people by nothing except by laws, having been called to council, (Romulus) gave laws, which he thought (supply est) would be thus holy for a rough race of men if he himself had made himself venerable by symbols of power, he made himself more august not only by the rest of his dress but also especially by twelve lictors having been assumed.  [Alii] Some think that he followed number from the number of the birds which had foretold his sovereignty in the augury; it hardly discontents me to be of the opinion of those whom it pleases that both attendants of this type (adv. acc) and also the number itself was lead from their neighbors the Etruscan, whence the curule chair, whence the toga praetexta was taken; and the Etruscans considered/arranged (it) thus because individual peoples gave in common individual lictors from the twelve peoples with the king having been created.

Meanwhile the city was growing by the encroaching on some and other places with its walls because they were fortifying more in hope of future multitude than to this which was then of men (with regard to that which was the population then).  [Deinde] Then lest the multitude of the city be weak, for the sake of increasing the multitude, in the ancient plan of those founding cities, who used to lie that offspring were born to them from the earth, by drawing together to themselves a shadowy and humble multitude, he opens the place, which now is an enclosure for those descending between two groves, as a refuge.  At this time, from neighboring peoples the whole crowd was without distinction, (whether) he was free or slave, fled eager for new circumstances, and this was first of the strength for the begun multitude.  When already it hardly pained (him) of strength, he then prepares an advisory body for his strength: he creates 100  senators, whether because this number was enough or because there were only 100 (men) who could be named fathers: they were called fathers certainly from the honor, and their descendants were called patricians.