In a short time the Aborigines and Trojans bees，二e involved in war with Turnus, the king of the Rutulians. Lavinia had been betrothed to him before the arrival of .Fneas, and。furious at findinz a stranzer Areferred to him, he declared war against both Latinus and.}neas. Neither side could congratulate themselves on the result ofV , I' . , . A介。battle; the Rutu-. . y r" . Hans were defeated。put the victorious Aoorirines and 1 roians lost their leader Latinus. Feeling their need of allies, Turnus and the R.utulians bad recourse to the celebrated power of the Etruscans and Mezentius, their king, who was reigning at Caere, a wealthy city in those days. From. the first he had felt anything, but pleasure at the rise of the new city, and now he regarded the growth of the Troj an state as much too rapid he welcomed the proposal to join to be safe to its neighbours, soforces with the R.utulians.abandoning him i n the face of To keep the Aborigines from this strong coalition and to secure their beingnot only under the same，laws, but also the same designation, 2Eneas called both nations by the common name of Latins. From that time the Aborigines were not behind the Trojans in their loyal devotion to Eneas.5 o great was the Etruria that the renown of her people had filled not inland parts of Italy but also the coastal districts whole length of the land from the Alps to the Straits of Messina. 1Eneas, however, trusting to the loyalty of the two nations who were day by wing into one led his forces into the field instead of awa g the enemy behind his walls. The battle resulted in favour of the Latins, but it was the last mortal act of IEneas. His tomb----whatever it is lawful and right to call hi situated on the bank of the Numicius. He is addressed as ter Indiges.”