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Be that as it may, this Ascanius, wherever born and of whatever mother it is at any rate agreed that his father was Æneas seeing that Lavinium was over-populated, left that city, now a flourishing and wealthy one, considering those times, to his mother or stepmother, and built himself a new one at the foot of the Alban mount, which, from its situation, being built all along the ridge of a hill, was called Alba Longa.
The revolt was successful. A revolt is generally successful against a despot, when the great mass of the population desire his downfall. Amulius made a desperate attempt to stem the torrent, but his hour had come. His palace was stormed, and he was slain. The revolution was complete, and Romulus and Remus were masters of the country. The people of Alba Longa called together.
The Alban prince Romulus remains the founder of Rome, but becomes at the same time the grandson of Aeneas; Aeneas does not found Rome, but is represented as bringing the Roman Penates to Italy and building Lavinium as their shrine, while his son Ascanius founds Alba Longa, the mother-city of Rome and the ancient metropolis of Latium. All this was a sorry and unskilful patchwork.
'Yarra stop 'way pretty quick when Boss bin there. 'Suppose Yarra catch up track of Boss belonga him, come back when sun jump up, tell me. 'My word! Budgery that! Mine tink it Boss yabber-yabber longa trooper. Yarra set off at once, and Done continued his work.
"How many kinds of a chump can you be in one day?" asked her wrathful brother. "Pons longa, vita brevis," observed Hamil, intensely amused. "Don't sit on her, Gray." "O dear! O dear!" said Cecile calmly, "I'd rather be stepped on again than sat on like that!" "You're a sweet little thing anyway," said Hamil, "even if you do fall down in Bridge as well as otherwise " "Shiela! You told Garret!"
At this place there is a bay, having another hill at its east extremity, beyond which the land is very low. We went this day E. N E. and E. by N. 22 leagues, and then E. along shore. The 6th we were short of Villa Longa, and there we met a Portuguese caravel.
And there were those who proposed to compromise the question, by dividing Latium into two separate kingdoms, giving up one part to Iulus, with Alba Longa for its capital, and the other, with Lavinium for its capital, to Æneas Silvius, Lavinia's heir. This proposition was, however, overruled.
Ascanius, the son of Æneas, was not yet old enough to take the government upon him; that government, however, remained secure for him till the age of maturity. Between the founding of Lavinium and the transplanting this colony to Longa Alba, about thirty years intervened.
There were quite three acres of available surface altogether, and not farther than a mile from Weston; but "Ars longa, vita brevis est;" the art of cutting figures is long, and the period of practice short indeed. Considering the price spent on skates in England, and the few opportunities of putting them on, it seems barbarous of masters not to give whole holidays when the ice does bear.
He died at length when eighty years of age, and was succeeded by Tullus Hostilius, a king of Roman birth. The new king loved war as much as the gentle Numa had loved peace. Under his rule the gates of the Temple of Janus were soon thrown open again, long to remain so. His first war was with the city of Alba Longa, the foster-parent of Rome.
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