Romulus ordered the seizure of the Sabine Women during the Consualia festival to provide wives for Rome's settlers. The women later rushed onto the battlefield to end the war between their Roman husbands and Sabine fathers.
Titus Tatius led the Sabines to war against Rome to avenge the abduction of the Sabine Women, who ended the conflict by rushing between the battle lines with their children, declaring they would rather die than see either their fathers or husbands slain.
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