Hersilia

Family: Sabines · Role: Sabine woman · First appears: Romulus

Life events

The Romans and Sabines ended hostilities, shared the city, and accepted joint rule.(Romulus · 📍 Comitium)
- With: Romulus Tatius
- “Hersilia having spoken many such words as these, and the others earnestly praying, a truce was made, and the chief officers came to a parley; the women, in the mean time, brought and presented their husbands and children to their fathers and brothers; gave those that wanted, meat and drink, and carried the wounded home to be cured, and showed also how much they governed within doors, and how indulgent their husbands were to them, in demeaning themselves towards them with all kindness and respect imaginable. Upon this, conditions were agreed upon, that what women pleased might stay where they were, exempt, as aforesaid, from all drudgery and labor but spinning; that the Romans and Sabines should inhabit the city together; that the city should be called Rome, from Romulus; but the Romans, Quirites, from the country of Tatius; and that they both should govern and command in common.”
Romulus took nearly eight hundred women, chose Hersilia for himself, and distributed the rest among city leaders.(Comparison of Romulus with Theseus)
- With: Romulus
- “Romulus, when he had taken near eight hundred women, chose not all, but only Hersilia, as they say, for himself; the rest he divided among the chief of the city;”

married with Hostilius “amongst whom was Hostilius, who, they say, was husband to Hersilia,”
married with Romulus “others, Romulus himself, and that she bore two children to him,”
child: Prima “that she bore two children to him, a daughter, by reason of primogeniture called Prima,”
child: Aollius “and one only son, whom, from the great concourse of citizens to him at that time, he called Aollius,”

with Romulus (Romulus selected Hersilia for himself among the abducted women.) “Romulus, when he had taken near eight hundred women, chose not all, but only Hersilia, as they say, for himself;”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.