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Caeculus, born of Vulcan's race, and Umbro, who comes from the Marsian hills, fill up the line. The Dardanian rushes full on them.
Nor was the founder of Praeneste city absent, the king who, as every age hath believed, was born of Vulcan among the pasturing herds, and found beside the hearth, Caeculus.
It opened with the waking at dawn of the herdsman Caeculus and his little son, in their round thatched cottage on the ridge of Aricia, beneath the Alban Mount.
And when he had found them he drove them home, not staying even to quench his thirst from their swollen udders. And in the shepherd's hut he found his father Caeculus; and sinking down beside him with tears and sobs he told his tale. 'And Caeculus pondered long. And without chiding, he laid his hand upon the boy's head and bade him be comforted.
One by one the rustic facts emerged, so old, so ever new: Caeculus grinding his corn, and singing at his work the baking of the flat wheaten cakes on the hot embers the gathering of herbs from the garden the kneading them with a little cheese and oil to make a relish for the day the harnessing of the white steers under the thonged yoke the man going forth to his ploughing, under the mounting dawn, clad in his goatskin tunic and his leathern hat, the boy loosening the goats from their pen beside the hut, and sleepily driving them past the furrows where his father was at work, to the misty woods beyond.
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