The Romaines and the Albanes being at warres, for iniuries mutually
inferred, Metius Suffetius, the Albane captaine, deuised a waye by a
combate to ioygne bothe the cities in one. Victorie falling to the
Romaines, the Romaine victor killed his sister and was condemned to die.
Afterwardes, upon his father’s sute, he was deliuered.
[_Source and Origin._--Livy, i. 26.
_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Cicero, _Pro Mil._ 37; Dionys. Hal. iii.
21, 22; Plutarch, _Par. Min._ 16; Valerius Max. vi. 36; Florus,
i. 3; Zonar, vii. 6. II. _Mediæval_: Holkot, _Moral._ 12. III.
_Modern:_ Wolgemuth, ii. 74; Kirchhof, _Wendenmuth_, i. 13, vi. 61;
Albertinus, _Lusthauss_, 1619, 191; Corneille, _Horace; Acerra
Philologica_, 1708, ii. 15.
_Painter_, Ed. I. (1566) i. 1; II. (1575)[65] i. 1; III. i. 1; IV.
i. 15.]
[Footnote 65: The reprint of 1569 is not taken into account in
giving the pagination.]