Tulio Hostilio was the third legendary king of Rome.
He was friends with battles and was always ready to wage wars.
On the occasion of having to defend Rome from the Etruscans who came from the city of Veyes, as neither of the two armies wanted to fight, because they had many bonds in common, they decided on a very particular duel: among the Romans there were three brothers named Horacios and among the Albanians three brothers named Curiacios.
What would they do? Very easy. The Horacians would fight against the Curiacians and the winning side representing their country would impose the law on the other.
When it was all organized, they started fighting. The inhabitants of both villages came to cheer and cheer for their candidates.
As soon as the fighting began, two of the Horacians were seriously wounded and left out of combat. Although the Curiacians also had a wound, it was not serious and the truth is that in the fight there were three Curiacians against a Horatio. The Roman assistants were demoralized because they saw defeat imminent.
The surviving Horace made the gesture of retiring cowardly and the three Curiacians threw themselves on him. At that time, the Horace reacted very quickly and beat them one at a time.
The Romans could not give credit to their eyes because they had won the contest, and the Albanians, who had already imagined victors, had to submit to Rome.
That Horace was hailed as a true hero. When she arrived in Rome, her sister, who was engaged to marry one of the Curiacians, left to mourn the death of her fiancé.
Horace, filled himself with anger and pounced with his sword, pierced his own sister, saying, “So must every Roman who weeps the death of an enemy die.”
After this victory, the Romans ravaged the city of Alba, leaving only the temples standing. From that moment on, Tulio defeated all the towns neighboring Rome one after another and soon it became the Capital of the League of Latin Cities.
The gods were angry at seeing the mistreatment that the Romans gave to the Albanians and sent them a plague so deadly that even Tulio himself fell ill.
Tulio tried to please the gods by trying to change their bellicose character by dedicating himself to the priesthood.
To please the god Jupiter. He tried to offer him a secret ritual written by Numa, but since he was very run over, he was wrong and Jupiter became so angry that he sent lightning over the royal palace causing a fire of great proportions.
Tulio was caught in the fire and died in the flames.