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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 716 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Roman See also:legend, the son of See also:Aeneas by Creusa or Lavinia. From See also:Livy it would appear that tradition recognized two sons of Aeneas called by this name, the one the son of his Trojan, the other of' his Latin wife. According to the usual See also:account, he accompanied his See also:father to See also:Italy on his See also:flight from See also:Troy. On the See also:death of Aeneas, the See also:government of See also:Latium was See also:left in the hands of Lavinia, Ascanius being too See also:young to under-take it. After See also:thirty years he left See also:Lavinium, and founded See also:Alba Longa. Ascanius was also called Ilus and See also:Iulus, and the See also:Julian gens claimed to be descended from him. Several more or less contradictory traditions may be found in See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus, See also:Strabo and other writers. Virg. Aen. ii. 666; Livy i. 3; see also Klausen. Aeneas and See also:die Penaten (184o).

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