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" He introduces himself. It is the river-god himself, by whose brink the hero is resting, the Tiber, beloved of heaven, who flows with full banks through fertile plains. 1 JEn. , VIII. 26. 256 THE COUNTRY OF HORACE AND VIRGIL. " Ego sum, pleno quern flumine cernis Stringentem ripas et innguia culta secantem, Cceruleus Tibris, ccelo gratissimus amnis. " He begins by repeating to ^neas, who cannot know it too well, that this land is indeed the one where he must settle : " Thy promised home is her...e ; and here must thy Penates dwell. " And that he may not think himself the dupe of a dream, a manifest sign of the divine will is announced to him: "Under the oaks that cover this shore, thou shalt find an enormous sow outstretched, which has just brought forth thirty little ones. She is white, and her little ones, white like their mother, hang from her teats. This is the spot where thou must raise the city thou art to build (Lavinium) ; it is the end of all thy toils. Thence, later on, after thirty years have come round, shalt start thy son, Ascanius, to go and found Alba, the noble city, whose name shall recall its origin {Alha, the white).
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