Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . and is a grand-daughter of Circe and theSun. From her divine blood and that of Faunus, springs Latinus, who, proud of suchancestry, wears the glittering diadem. This Latinus gives his name to the Latin nation. His people lifts itself more andmore out of the darkness of the tangled woods, into higher, clearer paths ; but its sacredtrees, its consecrated groves, bear witness that it retains some memory of its Olympianancestry. Thus, Laurentum is built around a sacred laurel tree, and King Picus, changedinto the mysterious woodpecker, utters oracles in the Laur
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . and is a grand-daughter of Circe and theSun. From her divine blood and that of Faunus, springs Latinus, who, proud of suchancestry, wears the glittering diadem. This Latinus gives his name to the Latin nation. His people lifts itself more andmore out of the darkness of the tangled woods, into higher, clearer paths ; but its sacredtrees, its consecrated groves, bear witness that it retains some memory of its Olympianancestry. Thus, Laurentum is built around a sacred laurel tree, and King Picus, changedinto the mysterious woodpecker, utters oracles in the Laurentian woods. The manners ofthe people are pious and simple ; and the daughter of Latinus, Lavinia, grows up a piousand simple princess, amid these solitudes, of an age to be a happy bride. About this time it comes to pass that ^neas, tossed hither and thither by windsand waves, approaches the Latin coast with his high-beaked Grecian galleys. In thegolden light of morning he beholds before him a great dark wood, between whose tree-. ROME. 22 r roots flows a broad, swift stream, turbid and yellow with sand from the distant reeds nearly choke up the entrance to it, and many birds flutter around it, cheering
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