He united the unruly race that was scattered on the mountains, gave them laws, and called it Latium—he’d safely hidden here.* He was king during the age called Golden and he ruled the people in unbroken peace until a duller and degraded age came in, mad for war, greedy for gain. Then came Ausonian mobs and Sicanian tribes.
Virgil being a prophet when he's trying only to be a historian
