ἱστορίαι Historiai
Liv. 1.1 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
Zneas访Italy. To begin with, it is generally admitted that after the capture of Troy, whilst the rest of the Trojans were_massacred, against t呷of } them--Eneas and Anterior,~一 the Achiv1 retused to exercise the rights of war, partly 谁Se毛几eI’Jgn毛50工War,Paruyowing andpar七lybecause theseme众ha 衣口a 01,1 rays been in favour of making peace and surrendering Helen. Their subsequentP妙tunesA w‘ were different. Antenor sailed into tnefur七hest part oi the Adriatic,the furthest part of tn.e .Adriatic, accompanied by a number of Lnetians who had been driven from Paphlagonia by a revolution., and after losinz their kinz Pvlaemenes before Troy were lookin, 士or a settlement ana a ieaaer.上ne com oxnea force ox乃netzans and Troj ans{ defeated the Euganei, who dwelt between. the sea and the Alps andoccupied occuPiodtheir land.The place where they disembarked was called Troy, and the name was extended to the surrounding district;the whole nation were called veneti. Similar misfortunes led, to zEneas becoming a wanderer, but the Fates were preparing a hi沙er destiny for him. He first visited Macedonia, then was carried down to Sicily in quest of a settlemeet;froze Sicily he directed his course to the Laurentian territory. Here, too, the name of Troy is found, and here the Trojans disembarked, and as their almost infinite wanderings had lett them nothing but their arms and their ships, they began to plunder the neighbourhood. The Abor诱ines, who occupied the country, with, their king Latinus at their head, came hastily together froze the city and the country districts to repel the inroads of the strangers by force of arms, Front this point there is a twofold tradition, According try the one, Latinus was defeated in battle, and made peace with Eneas, and subsequently a family alliance .according to the other, whilst the two armies were standing ready tea engage and 3 signal, Latinus advanced in front of his lines and invited, the leader of the strangers to a conference.1 P 7 + r .1 1 He inquired ox him what manner of men they were, whence they what had bapp ened to make them leave their homes were they in quest of when they landed in Latinus' terri- when he heard that the men were Trojans, that their leader was .Xneas, the son of Anchises and Venus, that their city had been burnt, and that the homeless exiles were now looking for a place to settle in and build a city, he was so struck with the noble bearing of the men andreadiness to accept alike either peace or笠leader,that h滥theire his right hand as a solemn pledge of friendship for the future. A forMal treaty was made between the leaders and mutual纤eetings exchanged between the armies.Y 'f '" . 1,Latinus received tneasr, as a guest in his house. and there. in the r)rcsence ox his tutetarv ·,.叼,,,.,11、.,,石,。,声’,,·人 aelrxes,coxnieted the Aonticai alliance uv a oomesttc one. and 人,,。几.,朴以17"1,._ gave n.is daughter in marriage to fdneas. I his tnczaent confinned the Trojans in the hope that they had reached the term of their wanderings and won aL permanent home. They built a town, which zEneas called avinium after his wife.工na short time a bov was born, of the new marriaze, to whom leis 侧声V尹 parents gav e the name of Ascanius.

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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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