... swaying of the multitude, and then the rising yell ofmen overlaid, ringing high in the air from the Capitol right across the Forum to the Palatine, and echoing back the doom of the Ten. The deed ... upon another in the great desolation; they sweptaway all records of history, then and there, and the general destruction was absolute, so that the Rome of the Republic and of the Empire, the centre ... imitated, in one way or another, by all the nations wecall civilized.But the father of the family was in his own person the despot, the senate, the magistrate and the executive of the law; his wife,...