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and having previously been hostile towards the Latins, they then took up war, with Turnus, a distinguished man and a kinsman of Latinus, also assisting them, who held Latinus in anger because of Lavinia's marriage; for the girl had been promised to him. So when a battle occurred, both Turnus and Latinus fell, but Aeneas won the victory and the kingdom of his father-in-law. After 2.86 some time, the Rutulians, having obtained an alliance from the Tyrrhenians, attacked Aeneas and won the war; but Aeneas disappeared, for he was seen no more either living or dead, and was honored as a god by the Latins. From this he is also considered by the Romans to be the founder of their race, and they boast of being called Aeneadae. His son Ascanius, who had accompanied his father from home, succeeded to the rule of the Latins; for he had not yet begotten a child by Lavinia, but had left her pregnant. The enemy shut Ascanius up and besieged him; but at night the Latins attacked them and broke both the siege and the war. As time went on, the Latins, having increased in number, most of them left the city of Lavinium, and built another in a better location, which they named Alba from its whiteness and Longa from its length; Greeks would say white and long. When Ascanius died, the Latins preferred the son born to Aeneas by Lavinia for the kingship over the child of Ascanius, choosing this one because of his grandfather Latinus, who was called Silvius. From Silvius was born Aeneas, from Aeneas was born Latinus, and Pastis succeeded Latinus. Tiberinus, ruling afterwards, fell into a river called the Albula and perished; this river was renamed the Tiber after him, flowing through Rome and being most sufficient for the city and most useful to the Romans. The descendant of Tiberinus was Amulius, who, being arrogant and daring to deify himself, so as to counter thunder with thunder from a machine and flash back against the lightning 2.87 and hurl thunderbolts, was destroyed when the lake by which his palace was situated suddenly overflowed and submerged both him and the palace. His son Aventinus died in war. And this is about Lavinium and the Albans; but the origins of the Romans involve Numitor and Amulius, who were grandsons of Aventinus, but descendants of Aeneas. When the kingdom in Alba had come to them by succession, they wished to divide it and the wealth. So when Amulius had set the wealth on one side, and the kingdom on the other, and urged his brother to choose from the two whichever he wished, Numitor chose the kingdom, as he was the elder brother; but Amulius, taking the wealth and gaining power from it, also took away the kingdom. Since Numitor had a daughter, fearing that children might be born of her and rise up against him, he appointed her a priestess of Hestia, who for this reason was to be unmarried and a virgin for life. But she was later found to be pregnant, by Ares, as the myth goes, but certainly by some man. She was therefore imprisoned for this reason, so that she would not give birth in secret. And she bore twin boys, large and handsome. Therefore Amulius, becoming more afraid, ordered the infants to be exposed. And the one who took them, placing them in a trough, cast them into the river Tiber. The current, carrying the trough along, brought it to a certain soft place; where they tell that a she-wolf, approaching the infants as they lay there, 2.88 offered them her teat, and a woodpecker bird was present, feeding and guarding them. But a certain swineherd of Amulius named Faustulus secretly took the infants as they lay there; and they were raised by his wife, whose name was Larentia; and one was called Romulus, and the other Remus. But some say that the children's nurse was not a she-wolf, which is both more plausible and especially more true, and that the story originated as follows. The Romans call both she-wolves and prostitutes lupas.

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καὶ πρόσθεν δυσμενῶς εχοντες πρὸς Λατίνους, καὶ τότε πόλεμον ηραντο, ἐπαρήγοντος αὐτοῖς καὶ Τούρνου ἀνδρὸς ἐπιφανοῦς καὶ τῷ Λατίνῳ προσήκοντος, ος δι' ὀργῆς τὸν Λατῖνον πεποίητο διὰ τὸν Λαουινίας γάμον· ἐκείνῳ γὰρ ἡ κόρη προωμολόγητο. μάχης ουν γενομένης πίπτουσιν ο τε Τοῦρνος καὶ ὁ Λατῖνος, τὴν δὲ νίκην ὁ Αἰνείας κεκόμιστο καὶ τὴν τοῦ πενθεροῦ βασιλείαν. μετὰ δέ 2.86 τινα χρόνον συμμαχίας ἐκ Τυρσηνῶν οἱ ̔Ρουτοῦλοι τυχόντες ἐπῆλθον τῷ Αἰνείᾳ, καὶ τὸν πόλεμον νενικήκασιν· ἀφανὴς δὲ ὁ Αἰνείας γενόμενος, ουτε γὰρ ζῶν ωφθη ετι ουτε μὴν τεθνεώς, ὡς θεὸς παρὰ Λατίνοις τετίμητο. ἐντεῦθεν καὶ τοῖς ̔Ρωμαίοις τοῦ σφετέρου γένους ἀρχηγέτης νενόμισται, καὶ Αἰνειάδαι καλεῖσθαι αὐχοῦσι. τὴν δὲ τῶν Λατίνων ἀρχὴν ὁ ἐκείνου υἱὸς ̓Ασκάνιος διεδέξατο, ος οικοθεν συνείπετο τῷ πατρί· οὐδέπω γὰρ ἐκ τῆς Λαουινίας παῖδα ἐγείνατο, εγκυον δ' αὐτὴν καταλέλοιπε. τὸν δὲ ̓Ασκάνιον κατακλείσαντες οἱ πολέμιοι ἐπολιόρκουν· νυκτὸς δ' οἱ Λατῖνοι αὐτοῖς ἐπιθέμενοι τήν τε πολιορκίαν ελυσαν καὶ τὸν πόλεμον. Χρόνου δὲ διεληλυθότος πληθυνθέντες οἱ Λατῖνοι τὴν μὲν πόλιν τὸ Λαουίνιον οἱ πλείονες ἐκλελοίπασιν, ἑτέραν δ' ἐν ἀμείνονι χώρᾳ ἀντῳκοδόμησαν, ην Αλβαν ἐκ τῆς λευκότητος καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ μήκους Λόγγαν ἐπωνόμασαν· ειποιεν αν Ελληνες λευκὴν καὶ μακράν. ̓Ασκανίου δὲ τελευτήσαντος οἱ Λατῖνοι τὸν ἐκ τῆς Λαουινίας τεχθέντα τῷ Αἰνείᾳ υἱὸν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν προετιμήσαντο τοῦ ̓Ασκανίου παιδός, διὰ τὸν πάππον τὸν Λατῖνον τοῦτον προκρίναντες, Σιλούιον κεκλημένον. ἐκ Σιλουίου δὲ Αἰνείας ἐτέχθη, ἐξ Αἰνείου δὲ Λατῖνος ἐγένετο, Λατῖνον δὲ διεδέξατο Πάστις. Τιβερῖνος δ' αρξας μετέπειτα ἐν ποταμῷ καλουμένῳ ̓Αλβούλῳ πεσὼν διεφθάρη· ος δὴ ποταμὸς Τίβερις ἐξ ἐκείνου μετωνομάσθη, ῥέων διὰ τῆς ̔Ρώμης καὶ ων τῇ πόλει πολυαρκέστατος καὶ ̔Ρωμαίοις ἐς τὰ μάλιστα χρησιμώτατος. εκγονος δὲ τοῦ Τιβερίνου ̓Αμούλιος, ος ὑπερφρονήσας καὶ θεοῦν ἑαυτὸν τολμήσας, ὡς βροντάς τε ταῖς βρονταῖς ἐκ μηχανῆς ἀντεπάγειν καὶ ἀνταστράπτειν ταῖς ἀστρα2.87 παῖς ἐνσκήπτειν τε κεραυνούς, διεφθάρη, τῆς λίμνης παρ' ῃ τὰ αὐτοῦ βασίλεια ιδρυτο ἐπιρρυείσης αἰφνίδιον καὶ καταποντισάσης κἀκεῖνον καὶ τὰ βασίλεια. ̓Αουεντῖνος δὲ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἐν πολέμῳ ἀπέθανε. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν περὶ Λαουινίου καὶ ̓Αλβανῶν· τὰ δὲ τῶν ̔Ρωμαίων ἀρχὴν ἐσχήκασι τὸν Νομίτωρά τε καὶ τὸν ̓Αμούλιον, οι ̓Αουεντίνου μὲν ἐγένοντο υἱωνοί, τοῦ δ' Αἰνείου ἀπόγονοι. τῆς γοῦν ἐν Αλβῃ βασιλείας κατὰ διαδοχὴν περιελθούσης αὐτοῖς, νείμασθαι ταύτην ἠθέλησαν καὶ τὰ χρήματα. τοῦ ̓Αμουλίου τοίνυν ἰδίᾳ μὲν τὰ χρήματα θέντος, ἰδίᾳ δέ γε τὴν βασιλείαν, καὶ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν τὸν ἀδελφὸν προτρεψαμένου ο πρὸς βουλῆς αὐτῷ ἐπιλέξασθαι, τὴν βασιλείαν ειλετο ὁ Νομίτωρ, ατε καὶ πρεσβύτερος ἀδελφός· λαβὼν δὲ τὰ χρήματα ὁ ̓Αμούλιος, καὶ δύναμιν ἐκ τούτων περιβαλλόμενος, καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν ἀφείλετο. θυγατρὸς δὲ τῷ Νομίτωρι ουσης, δεδιὼς μὴ παῖδες ἐξ αὐτῆς γένοιντο καὶ κατεξανασταῖεν αὐτοῦ, ἱέρειαν τῆς ̔Εστίας ἐκείνην ἀπέδειξεν, αγαμον διὰ τοῦτο καὶ παρθένον διὰ βίου μέλλουσαν εσεσθαι. ἡ δὲ κύουσα ἐφωράθη μετέπειτα ὑπὸ Αρεος, ὡς μυθεύεται, ὑπ' ἀνθρώπων δὲ πάντως τινός. ειρχθη ουν διὰ τοῦτο, ινα μὴ λάθῃ τεκοῦσα. καὶ ετεκε διδύμους παῖδας μεγάλους τε καὶ καλούς. μᾶλλον ουν φοβηθεὶς ὁ ̓Αμούλιος ἐκέλευσε τὰ βρέφη ῥιφῆναι. καὶ ὁ ταῦτα λαβὼν σκάφῃ ἐνθέμενος ἐμβάλλει τῷ ποταμῷ τῷ Τιβέριδι. παρασῦραν δὲ τὴν σκάφην τὸ ῥεῦμα εις τινα χῶρον κατήνεγκε μαλθακόν· ενθα κειμένοις τοῖς βρέφεσι λύκαιναν ἱστοροῦσι προσιοῦ2.88 σαν θηλὴν παρέχειν αὐτοῖς, καὶ ορνιν δρυοκολάπτην παρεῖναι ταῦτα ψωμίζοντα καὶ φυλάττοντα. ἐκεῖ δὲ κείμενα τὰ βρέφη λαθὼν ἀφείλετό τις ̓Αμουλίου συοφορβὸς Φαυστοῦλος καλούμενος· καὶ παρὰ τῆς ἐκείνου ἐτράφησαν γυναικός, ῃ ονομα Λαρεντία· καὶ ὁ μὲν ̔Ρωμύλος, ὁ δ' ετερος ̔Ρῶμος ἐκλήθησαν. τινὲς δὲ μὴ λύκαιναν ειναι τὴν τῶν παίδων φασὶ τροφόν, ο καὶ πιθανώτερον η ἀληθέστερον μάλιστα, ἀρχὴν δὲ τὸν λόγον ουτω λαβεῖν. λούπας καλοῦσι ̔Ρωμαῖοι τάς τε λυκαίνας καὶ τὰς ἑταίρας·