The Tale Of Rome

This time Romans don’t fight the Latins. Instead, they have to face the dangerous Aequi tribe.Partial TranscriptHello, this is Abel, speaking from Beijing, China. Welcome to my podcast.The Tale of Rome, Episode 19 – The Battle of Mons Algidus.Last week we saw the arrival of the Twelve Tables.Written laws so that all Romans could be tried and treated the same way.And we also saw how all over Rome people learned those laws by heart. Among them, the oh-so-eager eight-year-old boy in our little family saga.To give you a few more examples of what these Tables contained, lets check out  a few of these laws:Killing an intruder in one’s own house, if it was nighttime, was OK. No punishment, not even a case. But if it was daytime, the homeowner had to get the intruder to a magistrate for trial.If the court called a person to appear in front of a judge, and if that person was incapacitated in any way, the court would out send four soldiers, and four slaves to bring the man to the courthouse.But if the person’s issue wa