His father was at that time King of Alba--a region of Italy near the spot on which Rome was subsequently built--and the accident brought Brutus under such suspicions, and exposed him to such dangers, that he fled from the country.

After various wanderings he at last reached Greece, where he collected a number of Trojan followers, whom he found roaming about the country, and formed them into an army.

With this half-savage force he attacked a king of the country named Pandrasus.

Brutus was successful in the war, and Pandrasus was taken prisoner.

This compelled Pandrasus to sue for peace, and peace was concluded on the following very extraordinary terms: Pandrasus was to give Brutus his daughter Imogena for a wife, and a fleet of ships as her dowry.