Ascanius and oundation of Alba.---:'his son, Ascanius, was not old enough to assume the government;but his throne remained secure throughout his minority. During that interval --such was Lavinia's force of character--though a regent, the Latin State, and the king即m， of his father and9 zrandtatner, were preserves unimpaired xor ner son. 。甲。，，户，，·人，，_，·‘r 上win not aiscuss the duesrion---xor wno couia speai< tiecisively abou七a matter of such extreme antiquity?-whether the man w助m the lion house claim, under the name of Zulus., as -the founder of t eir norne was this Ascanius or an older one than he, born of Creusa, whilst Ilium was still intact, and after its fall a sharer in his father's fortunes. This A scanius, ever born, or of whatever mother--wit is generally agreed case that he was the son of忍neas--left to his mother 吐.In(orda，" stepmother) the city of Lavinium, which, was for those prosperous and wealthy city, with a superabundant population, and built a new city at the foot of the ,Alban hills, which: from its position, stretching along the side of the hill, was called “Alba Long a." An interval of thixt years elapsed between "蒸藻撒 ythe foundation of Lavinium and the coloSuch had been the growth of the Latinthe defeat of the Etruscans, that neither nisation of Alba Lone,.power, mainly throughat the death of . En eas. nor during the reregency 料CXof Lavinia, nor duP A "..勿g the immature years of the reign of Ascanius, aid either皿ezentxus anti the Etruscans or any other of their neighbours venture to attack them. when terms of peace were being arranged, the river Albula now called the Tiber, had been fixed as the boundary ，the Etruscans and the Latins. Ascanius was succeeded by his son， Silvius,,r1 I呐o. by。 samew .N chance had been born in the forest. He became the father of Xneas Silvius, who in his turn had S 1 Us He planted a number of colonies:the( called Prism Latini. The 毕}Cbb毕粤黔 of.Silvius was common to all the remaining Kings 01 AIDa. each of whom succeeded his father. ''Their names are Alba, Atys, Capys, Capetus, Tiberinus, who was drowned in crossing the Albula, and his name transferred to the river, which became henceforth the famous Tiber. Then, came.his， son Agrippa, after， him， his son Romulus Silviu7 1 'Y " W . 7 7“二Re was struck by lightning anal left the crown to his son Aventinus. Nvnose snrine was on me 11111 wnicn Dears nis name anci is now a part of the of Rome. He was succeeded by Proca, who had two sons nitor叫Amul少5.抑Numitor, the elder,I,- , he bequeathed the ancient throne o工the ;})xivxan nouse. Violence. however, proved stronger。 than7 Y“沙er少‘father's will、 or. the" "Y " W 7 respect clue to the brother's seniority;zor Amulius expelled his brother and seized the crown. Adding crime to crime, he murdered his brother's sons and made the daughter, Rea Silvia, a vestal virgin:thus.under the pretence of honourinz her. ，r, ,沪 J.，.， depriving her of all hopes of issue, Ti-ncl STORY OF ROMULUS