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Show The fecond Bookeof the jir't part Cuarag.fig Cwa P24.§.s. herewith, fought to auengehimfelfe by warte : which wvas foone ended yvith his own death. OF Amata the Wife of Latinus,ivis very certaine, that werc fh not haue bornea Daughter marriageable at the atriuall of Anca. yt we thould piuesit that denomifiation ofanother called 7#r#,beforethe comming ofAnes into ciws holds heran Afiatiquejand thinkes withall, that Lewinia yvas borne bef re Telephi Jealie. The Mountaine Auentinas had narne(as many write) from Avestinm k ing ofthe Albanes:who wasburied therin: but /#rgi/ hath it otherwife. fwlias\the brother ofAgen / tinns sis tamed by Ex/ebzus as father ofanotherJe/iasjand grandfather of Zalins Proculas who leauing A/ba,dwelt with Komulas in Rome, Namitor, the elder fon of Procas, was depriued ofhis kingdome byhis brother Amulis ; by whom alfo his fon eZgeflias; was flaine,and //2 his daughter madea Nunne of Ve/a, that thereby the iffuc of Numitor might be cut off. But fhe conceiued two fonnes, either by herVncle'Amutlias.as fome thinke;or by 44ars,as the Poetsfaine;or herhaps by fome man of watre. Poththe chil- Laainiathe daughter of Latinasbeing gilien in marriage to e£n Latiwm,orthe greateft part ofthat Countrie,was eftablithed in that race: wherinit con tinued vatill it vvas ouer-growne bythe might and greatneffe of the Romans dren, their Vncle commanded to be drowned, & the mothet buriedquicke, according tothe law ; which fo ordained, whentheVeftall Virgins brake theitchattitie; Whie- ther'it'was fo,that the mother was pardonedat theentreatie §. ILE imulizsor punithedas the Of Aneas,and of the Kings awd Gouernors of Alba. PAOICZa Neas himfelfe being ofthe royall bloud of Trop, had the commandof the Be a t Dardanians:he was a valiant man,very tich, andhighly honoured among the Trofaws.Byhis wife Cre#/z, the daughter of Priamus, he hada fone called Afcanins; vyhofe furnamevvas Jalus, having. before the muneof Troy(as Virgil notes)bin furnamed wlus. But when eA£ncas vvas dead, his wife Leuinia,the daughter of Latinas,being gteat vvith child by him, andfearing the powerof this A/canius.fied into the Woods, wherefhe was deliuered ofafon,called thereupon Spluins, & furnamed Poithumus, becaufe he was borne afterhis fathers Funerall.This flight ofLawizia was fo euill taken by the people, that A/canias procured her returne,entreated her honourably,&vfing her asa Queene, didfofter her young fon,his3 halfe-brother Syluius.Yet afterwards,whether toauoid alloccafions ofdifagreement, ordelighted withthe fituation ofthe place; 4/camins leauing to hismother inlawthe Citie Lauizium,which e4neas had builtand called after his new. wiues name, founde the Cite Albe Lowza,8&therein reigned.The timeofhis reigne was,according to fome, eight & twentie years : Virgil gives him thirtiesothers flue and thirty,& eight andthitty .Aftér his deceaffe,there arofe contention betweene Syluins,the fon ofnem,a Iulwsthe fonne of Afcauius, about the Kingdome: but the people inclining to the fonne of Lauinia, Iulus was contented to hold the Prieftheod, which he and his race enioyed,leauing the Kingdometo Syluius Pofthumus, whofe pofteritie were afterwaras called sylug. ‘ he reigneof the d/ba Kings,withthe continuance ofeach mans reigne, I find this 1 ON AMPW PY etdowne: Syluias Pofthumus. 2 i} Syluins EnCd. Syluius Latinus, 31 50 Syluius Alba. Syluius Atis. 39 | 26: Syluius Capys. 28 Syluius Capetus. Spluins Tiberinus. Syluius Agrippa. 133 pyeares. y' 41 10 Syluius Alladins, 11 Sylyins Aueutinus, 12, Syluis Procas, 13, Syluzus Amulins. Sylujus Numitor. , 19k 37 23]/ 445) . Jiacalled alfo Rheaand Sylvia. Romulus. Rewits. SOL ~Theinolt ofthefe Kings lined in peace; and did little otnothing worthy ofremeni= rance. ‘ ; ratte founded many Townesin the borders 6f Lativm': who ftariding much vponthe honour oftheiroriginall;grew thereby to be called Prifce Latini, OF Tiberinus fome thinke thac the Riuer Ter had name, being formerly called Ca/bula:but Virgit wiholly'follow Swidasandrather gine the conduct of the Ceted into Ztaly,to7 elephiuthe Father,than to his Son,yvhoferued in the laf yeare of the Troiam Warre. But Reynets came into Italy. Thatthis name Amata, by which? vvas not proper,but rather a furname,it mayfeeme by Varro; vv which name very vvell might be derinedftom the Greek n: 4 nifieth beloued,or dearé, wasthe name by vvhich theI ligh Prieft cz whomhetooke to {erie as aNunne offefta:yvherfore it is the more cafi a furnamejhowfoeuerVérgi/ difcourfe of her and enilia her fifter. ofthe Hifforieofthe World, i . Lawrequired(for Authors I of C4athosthe daughter of n-doévatieyitis agreediby: hat the two children were preferued,whoafterward reue 1e cruelty of their vith the flaughter of him and all his, and reftored Namitor heir grandfather ~ tothe kingdome : wherein howlong he i ed, I find not, neither is it Sreatly materiallto know for as muchas the Eftates of Albzand ofLatiumwere prefentlyeclipfed by the fwitt increafe ofKeme ; vpon whith-the computation of Time fol wing (as farreas concernesthe things of Italie) is dependant, Afterthe death:of Numitor, Vocle thekingdome ofd/ba ceafed; for Numitor leftino maleiff ec. Romulus chofe rather to line in Rome; and of the Line of sp/aéws none velfe ren uned. Sothe jA/bames were gouerned by M&iftrates; of wi 2 onely two Dictators are mentioned, namely Cains Clailius who inthe dayes of Talus Hoi lias, king of the Rommanes, making Watre vpon Rome, dyed in the Campe; and Metins Safferius,the' facceflor of Cluilius, who $6 furrendred the Eftate of4/64 vnto the komancshaving toiimittedthé hazzard of both Signories tothe fuccefle of three menof each fide,who decided the quarrel by Combat:inwhich, the three brethren Horatij, the Campions ofthe Rewaxes, prenailed againft the Curiatij,Champions ofthe A/bames? ‘A frerthis ‘Combats when Metis (following Tallus Hoftilias with the Albanc forces againft the Verentes anid Fidenates ) swithe drewhis Companies out ofthe battaile; hoping therebyto leauethe Xemawes to fach an ouerthrow,as might make them weake enough for the Albanesto-deale with; Tullas, who notwithftanding this falfehood,obtained the vidorié, did tewatd Adetivs with'z cruell death,cajifing him to betyed to two™Chariots; and fo torne in pieces. "Then was Alba deftroyedand the Citizens éairicdto Rome, where they were made fiee Dee ohizens,the noble Families beitis made Parritians ; among vvhich vvere the Whivof vvhoin C./alins Ce/ar being defcended; not onely gloried in his ancient; royall,‘and forgotten pedegre@ in fullaffembly of the Romanes, then gouertied by a free Eftate ofthe' People : but byhis tare indaftric, valour, and indgement, obtainedthe So: heraightic of the Romane Empire (muchbyhim enlarged J to himfelfeandhis pofteritic; whereby thé name of e#nexs, and Honour of the Troias and' Uavbax Race, was fo reuiued; thar feldome,if euerjany one Familie hath attained to- 2 proportionab le cight ofglory. §.V. Ofthe beginning ofReme,and ofRomulusbirth and death. thich deuoitred the A/baw kirigdome,T may here bee {hew the begin: ngs,Which(though foméwhat vacertaine )dépend much vponthe birth' and education of Romulus: the prand-childe ofNe*mitor, the laft that reignedin AL, 64. For hownot onely the bordering people, but all' Nations betweene Euphrates and the Ocean" were brokenin pieces by the yron teeth ofthis fourth Beaft, itisnotto bé defetibed in one place, hauine beene the Worke of many Ages; whereof T now ‘doe handle onely the fittt,asincidéat Vatoth? difcourfe preceding! (2: Fabiws Pidlor, Por tis |