But then the boy Ascanius, who now is carrying Iülus as his surname (while the state of Ilium held fast, he still 375 was known as Ilus), with his rule shall fill the wheeling months of thirty mighty years. He shall remove his kingdom from Lavinium and, powerful, build Alba Longa’s walls. For full three hundred years, the capital 380 and rule of Hector’s race shall be at Alba, until a royal priestess, Ilia, with child by Mars, has brought to birth twin sons. And then, rejoicing in the tawny hide of his nursemaid, the she-wolf, Romulus 385 shall take the rulership and build the walls of
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