The New Student's Reference Work/Sabines

Sa′bines, an old Italian people who lived first among the central Apennines, but afterwards reached down into the western plains, even to Rome itself. According to the story, a colony of Sabines occupied the Quirinal Hill in Rome, but were at last joined to the Latin followers of Romulus on the Palatine Hill, and so helped to make the Roman people. It is said that Romulus, finding it hard to get wives for his followers, who were looked down upon as runaways and criminals, invited the Sabines to a feast and games. While the games were going on, the garrison of the Palatine seized the unsuspecting women, whom they carried off to be their wives. After several wars the Sabines outside of Rome were conquered in 241 B. C.