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The history of the foundation of Rome is lost in the darkness of remote antiquity. When the great ness of the city, and its progress in arts and letters, awakened curiosity respecting its origin, authentic records on the subject, if indeed they had ever ex isted, were no longer to be found. Hence a license of conjecture which has produced at the least no fewer than twenty-five distinct legends respecting the foun dation of Rome. To record all these, many of which are merely variations of the same story, would be beside the purpose of the present article. The student who desires a complete account of them will find them very clearly stated in Sir G. Cornewall Lewis's Inquiry into the Credibility of the early Roman History (vol. I. P. 394, and also, though not so fully, in Niebuhr's History of Rome (eng. Trans]. Vol. I. P. 214, chiefly derived from the following ancient sources: Dionys. Halic. I. C. 72 - 74; Pint. Rom. 1, 2; Service, ad Virg. Ace. I. 273; and Festus, s. E. Roma. The importance of the subject, however, and the frequent allusions to it in the classical writers, will not permit us to pass it over in perfect silence; and we shall therefore mention, as compendiously as possible, some of the principal traditions.

All the theories on the subject may be reduced to three general heads, as follows - I. That Rome was founded in the age preceding the Trojan War. 11. That it was founded by Aeneas, or other persons, a little after the fall of Troy. 111. That Romulus, grandson of Numitor, king of Alba Longs, was its founder, several centuries after the Trojan War.

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