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The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08

CHAPTER I
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They build a town.

AEneas calls it Lavinium, after the name of his wife.

In a short time, too, a son was the issue of the new marriage, to whom his parents gave the name of Ascanius.
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The Aborigines and Trojans were soon after attacked together in war.
Turnus, king of the Rutulians, to whom Lavinia had been affianced before the coming of AEneas, enraged that a stranger had been preferred to himself, made war on AEneas and Latinus together.

Neither side came off from that contest with cause for rejoicing.


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