Editing Sabines (section)

===Legend of the Sabine women===
{{main|The Rape of the Sabine Women}}
Legend says that the [[Roman Kingdom|Romans]] abducted Sabine women to populate the newly built Rome. The resultant war ended only by the women throwing themselves and their children between the armies of their fathers and their husbands. The Rape of the Sabine Women became a common motif in art; the women ending the war is a less frequent but still reappearing motif.

According to [[Livy]], after the conflict, the Sabine and Roman states merged, and the Sabine king [[Titus Tatius]] jointly ruled Rome with [[Romulus]] until Tatius' death five years later. Three new [[centuria|centuries]] of [[Equites]] were introduced at Rome, including one named Tatienses, after the Sabine king.

A variation of the story is recounted in the pseudepigraphal [[Sefer haYashar (midrash)|''Sefer haYashar'']] (see [[s:Book of Jasher/Chapter 17|Jasher 17:1–15]]).