The city, we are assured, had another name, which the priests were forbidden to divulge; but what that was, it is now impossible to discover.
We have thus traced the history of the Latins down to the period when Rome was founded, or at least when it became a city, and shown how little reliance can be placed on the accounts given of these periods by the early historians.

We shall hereafter see that great uncertainty rests on the history of Rome itself during the first four centuries of its existence.
FOOTNOTES: [1] It is scarcely necessary to remark that the Pelas'gi were the original settlers in these countries.
[2] In all these places we find also the Tyrrhenian Pelas'gi.
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