2.  In this way the country was called Italy.  Picus was the first king of it, and after him his son Faunus, when Heracles came there with the rest of the kine of Geryon.  And he begat Latinus by the wife of Faunus, who was king of the people there, and from him all were called Latins.  In the fifty-fifth year after Heracles this AEneas, subsequent to the capture of Troy, came, as we have remarked, to Italy and the Latins.  He landed near Laurentum, called also Troy, near the River Numicius along with his own son by Creusa, Ascanius or Ilus.  There his followers ate their tables, which were of parsley or of the harder portions of bread loaves (they had no real tables), and likewise a white sow leaped from his boat and running to the Alban mount, named from her, gave birth to a litter of thirty, by which she indicated that in the thirtieth year his children should get fuller possession of both land and sovereignty.  As he had heard of this beforehand from an oracle he ceased his wanderings, sacrificed the sow, and prepared to found a city.  Latinus would not put up with him, but being defeated in war gave AEneas his daughter Lavinia in marriage.  AEneas then founded a city and called it Lavinium.  When Latinus and Thurnus, king of the Rutuli, perished in war each at the other’s hands, AEneas became king.  After AEneas had been killed in war at Laurentum by the same Rutuli and Mezentius the Etruscan, and Lavinia the wife of AEneas was pregnant (of Silvius [Footnote:  Reimar thinks this word a later interpolation.]), Ascanius the child of Creusa was king.  He finally conquered Mezentius, who had opposed him in war and had refused to receive his embassies but sought to command all the dependents of Latinus for an annual tribute.  When the Latins had grown strong because of the arrival of the thirtieth year, they scorned Lavinium and founded a second city named from the sow Alba Longa, i. e. “long white,”—­and likewise called the mountain there Albanus.  Only, the images from Troy turned back a second time to Lavinium.

After the death of Ascanius it was not Ascanius’s son Iulus who became king, but AEneas’s son by Lavinia, Silvius,—­or, according to some Ascanius’s son Silvius.  Silvius again begat another AEneas, and he Latinus, and he Capys.  Capys had a child Tiberinus, whose son was Amulius, whose son was Aventinus.

So far regarding Alba and Albanians.  The story of Rome follows.  Aventinus begat Numitor and Amulius.  Numitor while king was driven out by Amulius, who killed Numitor’s son AEgestes in a hunting party and made the sister of AEgestes, daughter of the aforesaid Numitor, Silvia or Rhea Ilia, a priestess of Vesta, so that she might remain a virgin.  He stood in terror of an oracle which foretold his death at the hands of the children of Numitor.  For this reason he had killed AEgestes and made the other a priestess of Vesta, that she might continue a virgin and childless.  But she while drawing water in Mars’s grove conceived, and bore Romulus and Remus.  The daughter of Amulius by supplication rescued her from being put to death, but the babes she gave to Faustulus, a shepherd, husband of Laurentia, to expose in the vicinity of the river Tiber.  These the shepherd’s wife took and reared up; for it happened that she had about that time brought forth a still-born infant.