![]() (8) The birth and breeding of these two brothers is well knowne, we need not enlarge their Story further then thus. When the title should have fallen to him, be∣ing the elder and true heire, he was spoyled of the Kingdome by his younger Amulius Sylvius: nor could it be recovered till time had given growth and strength to Romulus and Rhemus his grand-children by his daughter Rhea. (7) From Aeneas to Numitor the succession went on (not without some rubs,) but suffered no great breach for almost foure hundred yeares. ![]() yeares after, Aeneas arrived in this Countrey from the siege of Troy, was entertained as an amorous suitor by Lavinia, with consent of her father Latinus: and after the death of his corrivall Turnus, King of the Rutilians, was settled heire to the Latine Monarchy after his father. He remo∣ved the Aborigines from their seat, and planted his companions in the same plot of ground, where after Rome was built: and in the Mons Palatinus founded a little Town, which he called Pal∣lanteum, in memory of his great grand-father. (5) The first change of Inhabitants was forced by Evander the Arcadian, a man of that admirable eloquence, that he was called the sonne of Mercurie, but had by chance slaine his father, and was therefore expulsed his inheritance, and advised into Ita∣ly by his mother, a great Prophetesse of those times. Helvicus and other authenticke observers of time, cuts off (well-nigh) a thousand yeares from this account of the Aborigines, and placeth their Dynastia 2622. ( ) But this is the largest scope which we can give to her antiquity. sonia and Oenotria from her excellent Wines.Each of them built a Citie and left a sound of his name for their remembrance: the one Ianua, which to this day hath suffered no further change then to Genua: and the other Saturnia and both in their times gave name to the whole regi∣on: which are not yet fully worne out: though others have since took place: as Latium, quia his latebat Saturnus, Italia ab Italo Siculorum rege. yeares after the Flood, and received the aged Chronus into part of his Kingdome with him, being expulsed by his sonne Iupiter out of Crete. Ianus pater hominum & deorum and immediate predecessor to Saturne, was in Italy within 200. (3) I presume not to set downe the just yeare when men were thus ordered: But if you will beleeve the story of the Gen∣tiles compared in Chronologie, by some of late yeares and better trust, as Munster, Quade, &c. It was doubtlesse a very long time, since the world was honest: and deserved the name of a golden age: yet then was she peopled (as Iustine de∣livers out of Trogus) by the Aborigines, whose King was first O∣gyges, then Saturne, a man so just, that under his government there was knowne no tyranny from their Prince, no disloyaltie from the subject, no injurie from the neighbour: They had all one patrimony, one possession: and where all acknowledge no peculiar, there can be but little cause of strife. The mother of Countries we may call her, since most Wri∣ters agree, that she was first inhabited by Ianus (or Noah, as some would report him) the father of Nations. (2) Yet to speake truth we cannot abate her much of this title. Italia terrarum omnium alumna, eadem & parens, numine deorum electa quae coelum ipsum clarius faceret, sparsa congregaret imperia, ritus molliret, tot populorum discordes lin∣guas, sermones, Commercia, ad colloquia distraberet, & huma∣nitati hominem daret. Certainly the most blessed seat of man upon earth can deserve no more. She must (for me) and well may, be content here with the briefe Elogie of Plinie, to which (I thinke) the wit of man can adde but little. e, if he will but looke into any Authour where her name is mentioned.I may spare my Reader her lavish attri∣butes which he can hardly ba ITALY is divided from France and Germanie by the Alpes, and stretch∣eth her selfe South-east, betwixt the Tyrrhene and Adriaticke Seas, almost in just proportion of a mans legge.
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