This is a legend from the early days of Rome, shortly after its founding by Romulus. This first generation of Romans was made up of men, with a serious short of women, unlike their neighbors, the Sabines, who had been living there for a long time already. The Sabines, however, did not allowed their women to marry the Romans. Romulus then decided to take the women by force: he invited the Sabines to a festival and, during the celebration, the Roman men grabbed the Sabine women and fought off the Sabine men, as depicted in today's image.
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