Wanderings in the Roman campagna . n:ipagna, a race destinedto conquer the world. Who were the Latins ? Where didthey come from ? What influence did the fresh inuni-grations of Greek refugees at the mouth of the Tiber,led by Evander the Arcadian, and by /Eneas, haveover their destinies and civilization and early career ?Desjardins says that the Latin race was the hybrid out-come of the intercourse between the Siculi, iVboiigines,Pelasgians, Arcadians, and Trojans. Cest a cettenation Latine, melange de Sicules, dAborigenes, dePelasges, et de Troyens, et ayant pour capitale et pourcentre politiq
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . n:ipagna, a race destinedto conquer the world. Who were the Latins ? Where didthey come from ? What influence did the fresh inuni-grations of Greek refugees at the mouth of the Tiber,led by Evander the Arcadian, and by /Eneas, haveover their destinies and civilization and early career ?Desjardins says that the Latin race was the hybrid out-come of the intercourse between the Siculi, iVboiigines,Pelasgians, Arcadians, and Trojans. Cest a cettenation Latine, melange de Sicules, dAborigenes, dePelasges, et de Troyens, et ayant pour capitale et pourcentre politique et religieux la ville dAlbe, que jedonne le nom de Latins. This is not quite satisfactory,yet we have, at present, no better theory to offer. THE LAND OF SATURN 15 According- to tradition, Allja Longa was founded byAscanius, son of iEneas, thirty years after the landingof the Trojans at the mouth of the Tiber (Laurentum),and 1230 years before our era. Dionysius says that thepopulation of this new kingdom of Alba was essentially. Graves of early Latins, probiil)Iy of the founilers of Rome,discovered in the Forum of eastern origin, — Phrygians, Arcadians, Pelasgians,— in a rude stage of civilization, especially as regards themanufacture of pottery. The statement of the historianis confirmed by the discoveries made since 1817 in theprehistoric cemeteries of the Alban district, at IMonteCucco, Monte Crescenzio, Marino, and seems, therefore, that we old Latins owe our existence, 1(J WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA as a race and as a nation, to a foreign invasion (by sea)of the Campaona, and to the joining- of tlte conquerorsand the conquered in a confederacy, the meetini--placeof wliich was at the Caput Aquie Ferentina?. A visit tothis wooded len, now cahed the Parco di Colonna, wliichwinds its way into the heart of the Alban craters a Jittlebelow Marino, cannot fail to impress the classical stu-dent as well as the artist and the poet. In following thepath b
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