Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ws ruler. In the daring Romulus Silvius the old hereditary Titan 224 ITALY. nature awakes again. He defies the gods, and strives to equal them, dreaming how toobtain mastery over the lightning and the thunder-bolt, so as to make them obedient inhis hands; until at length indignant Jupiter darts an angry flash and destroys the royalrebel and Titan together with his stronghold. At the same time the Lake of Albanorose and swelled until it covered with its silent waters the proud castle whose Cyclopeanwalls the legend says may still be discerned beneath the lake
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ws ruler. In the daring Romulus Silvius the old hereditary Titan 224 ITALY. nature awakes again. He defies the gods, and strives to equal them, dreaming how toobtain mastery over the lightning and the thunder-bolt, so as to make them obedient inhis hands; until at length indignant Jupiter darts an angry flash and destroys the royalrebel and Titan together with his stronghold. At the same time the Lake of Albanorose and swelled until it covered with its silent waters the proud castle whose Cyclopeanwalls the legend says may still be discerned beneath the lake on moonlit nights. After him follows the good Aventinus whose tomb gave the name to the hill nearthe Palatine ; and then come Procas and his two sons, the virtuous Numitor, and thewicked Amulius. Numitors daughter is the beautiful Rhea Silvia, an Albanese goes down from the holy temple of Vesta one evening to fetch pure water from thespring. The shadows are already dark beneath the trees. All is silent and still. The. sun sets, and the twilight rapidly descends from the mountains, whilst an evening breezegoes shuddering through the foliage. Suddenly, in the path of the girl returning home-ward, a wolf appears and frightens her into taking refuge in a neighbouring the god Mars is awaiting her and compels her to his embrace. The god comfortsthe weeping Rhea Silvia by promising her immortality for herself and her children, butthe vestal is terror-stricken, for she knows that for her—a sacred priestess of Vesta,—love means death. When the birth-hour of the twins arrives, the holy fire in the templegoes out, the altar of the goddess quakes, and her image angrily hides its Silvias fault becomes known to Amulius, who without hesitation condemns motherand offspring to death in the river Anio. The god of the stream receives the sinkingprincess in his arms, and makes her his consort. Meanwhile the two children, exposedin a wooden shield, ar
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