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CHRONICLE OF BRUTUS, FIRST BRITON KING 151

Birth and Early Life of Brutus-the-Trojan.

“ After the Trojan war, meas, fleeing with Ascanius from their destroyed city, sailed to Italy. There he was honourably received by King Latinus,* which raised against him the envy of Turnus, King of the Rutuli, who thereon made war against him, Engaging in battle, Aineas got the victory, and killing Turnus, obtained the kingdom of Italy (Latium) ; and with it Lavinia, the daughter of Latinus.* After his death Ascanius, succeeding to the kingdom, built Alba on the Tiber, and begat a son named Sylvius, who .. . took to wife a niece of Lavinia . . . and had ason called Brutus.

“At length, after fifteen years were expired, the youth accompanied his father in hunting, and killed him accidentally by the shot of an arrow. . . . Upon his father’s death he was expelled from Italy, his kinsmen being enraged at him for so heinous a deed.”

Brutus in Greece.

‘Thus banished, he went into Greece, where he found the posterity of Helenus, son of Priamus, kept in slavery by Pandrasus, King of the Greeks. For, after the destruction of Troy, Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, had brought hither in chains Helenus and many others ; and to revenge on them the death of his father had commanded that they be held in captivity. Brutus, finding they were, by descent, his old countrymen, took up his abode among them, and began to distinguish himself by his conduct and bravery in war, so as to gain the affection of kings and commanders ; and above all the young men of the country. . . . His fame spreading over all countries, the Trojans from all parts began to flock to him, desiring, under his command, to be freed from subjection to the Greeks. : There was then in Greece a noble youth named Assaracus, a fayourer of their cause, for he was descended on his mother’s side from the Trojans. . . . Brutus having reviewed the number of his men and seen how Assaracus’s castles lay open to him, complied with their request.’ [It is then related that Brutus fought a battle with the army of Pandrasus at the river Akalon, and eventually routed the enemy and captured the

1 King Latinus of Mid-Italy is stated in Nennius’ version to be “* the son of Faunus [?Van], the son of Picus [Pict ?], the son of Saturn ” (Nennius, sect. I0).

* Virgil gives this version of the adventures of Aineas—the arrival of that exile on the coast of Latium in Italy, King Latinus’ entertainment of him and promise of his only daughter and heiress of his crown, the rage of her admirer Turnus and his invasion of Latium,and his defeat and death at the hands of Aineas.—Virgil, books 7-12.