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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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his mother and always implicitly obeyed her commands and thoseof the other gods, they took care of him, and saved him from the generaldestruction which overwhelmed the Trojans. When the horse of the Greelcswas brought into the city, ^neas, by the command of Venus, departed, bearingon his shoulders his aged father Anchises, and followed by a troop of his rela-tives and friends. Some represent him as fighting valorously amid the ruins ofthe burning city, and remaining for a year or more to rule and protect the frag-ment of the Trojans who escaped the massacre. Sooner or later, however, heand his followers departed from Troy. They sailed to many lands and encountered many adventures. At last theyreached Carthage, then a flourishing city under its foundress. Dido. Thewandering hero was brought before the beautiful queen, and the two fell inlove at first sight. He stayed long at the court, telling her hero tales of thegreat Trojan war, hunting with her, wooing her. Their marriage was daily
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Rome—Wanderings of i^neas 2<^j expected by their followers, when suddenly there came to yEneas in the nightthe command of his goddess mother to move onward, for not here was he tofind rest. Without a word to Dido, this excellent servant of the gods rose,gathered his people, and departed on the instant, leaving the deserted queen tomourn and wonder at his flight, till finally she slew herself upon a funeral pyrebuilt from the relics he had left behind. Thus, said the Romans, began theancient enmity between the Carthaginians and themselves, the descendants of/Eneas. It was in Italy that yEneas next paused, being assured by Venus thatthere his people should remain and become masters of the world. Afterconquering the natives of the land, he died and was rewarded for his some-what blind obedience to the gods by being carried up to their home in acloud of fire. His son lulus founded the city of Alba Longa—the white,long city—on the cliffs. Rome itself was not founded until over thr

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