Footnote 6: "From every care,"--the fear of giving offence by
expressing his opinions freely, and the sorrow, which, as a patriot, he
could not but feel in recording the civil wars of his countrymen.]

[Footnote 7: "Acquired."--This refers to the whole period antecedent to
the time when Ap. Claudius carried the Roman arms beyond Italy against
the Carthaginians; (2) _extended_, from that time till the fall of
Carthage; (3) _sinking_, the times of the Gracchi; (4) _gave way more
and more_, those of Sulla; (5) _precipitate_, those of Caesar; (6) _the
present times_, those of Augustus after the battle of
Actium.--_Stocker._]

CHAPTER I.

Now first of all it is sufficiently established that, Troy having been
taken, the utmost severity was shown to all the other Trojans; but that
towards two, AEneas and Antenor, the Greeks forbore all the rights of
war, both in accordance with an ancient tie of hospitality, and because
they had ever been the advisers of peace, and of the restoration of
Helen--then that Antenor after various vicissitudes came into the
innermost bay of the Adriatic Sea, with a body of the Heneti, who having
been driven from Paphlagonia in consequence of a civil commotion, were
in quest both of a settlement and a leader, their king Pylaemenes having
been lost at Troy; and that the Heneti and Trojans, having expelled the
Euganei, who dwelt between the sea and the Alps, took possession of the
country; and the place where they first landed is called Troy; from
whence also the name of Trojan is given to the canton; but the nation in
general is called Veneti: that AEneas was driven from home by a similar
calamity, but the fates leading him to the founding of a greater empire,
he came first to Macedonia: that he sailed from thence to Sicily in
quest of a settlement: that from Sicily he made for the Laurentine
territory; this place also has the name of Troy. When the Trojans,
having disembarked there, were driving plunder from the lands,--as being
persons to whom, after their almost immeasurable wandering, nothing was
left but their arms and ships,--Latinus the king, and the Aborigines,
who then occupied those places, assembled in arms from the city and
country to repel the violence of the new-comers. On this point the
tradition is two-fold: some say, that Latinus, after being overcome in
battle, made first a peace, and then an alliance with AEneas: others,
that when the armies were drawn out in battle-array,