And, after the death of King Latinus, who lived but a short time longer, Aeneas was lord over all. [Sidenote: Inf. ii. 13.] [Sidenote: Par. vi. 40-42. Convivio iv. 5: 80-97.] Sec. 24.--_How Julius Ascanius, son of Aeneas, was king after him, and of the kings and lords who descended from him._ Sec. 25.--_How Silvius, second son of Aeneas, was king after Ascanius, and how from him descended the kings of the Latins, of Alba, and of Rome._ Sec. 26.--_How Romulus and Remus founded the city of Rome._ Sec. 27.--_How Numa Pompilius was king of the Romans after the death of Romulus._ Sec. 28.--_How there were in Rome seven kings one after the other down to Tarquin, and how in his time they lost the lordship._ Sec. 29.--_How Rome was ruled for a long time by the government of the consuls and senators, until Julius Caesar became Emperor._ [Sidenote: Par. vi. 79-81. Convivio iv. 5: 16-29. De Monarchia ii. 9: 99-105; and ii. 12. Epist. vii. (3) 64-73.] After that the kings had been driven out, and the government of Rome was left to the consuls and senators, the said King Tarquin and his son, with the aid of King Porsenna of Tuscany, who reigned in the city of Chiusi [Clusium], made great war upon the Romans, but in the end the victory remained with the Romans. And afterwards the Republic of Rome was ruled and governed for 450 years by consuls and senators, and at times by dictators, whose authority endured for five years; and they were, so to speak, emperors, for that which they commanded must of necessity be done; and other divers offices, such as tribunes of the people, and praetors, and censors, and chiliarchs. And in this time there were in Rome many changes, and wars, and battles, not only with their neighbours, but with all the nations of the world; the which Romans by force of arms, and virtue and the wisdom of good citizens, ruled over well-nigh all the provinces and realms and dominions in the world, and gained sovereignty over them, and made them tributary, with the greatest battles, and with slaughter of many nations of the world, and of the Romans themselves, in divers times, well-nigh innumerable to relate. And also among the citizens themselves, by reason of envy against the rulers, and strifes between magnates and them of the people; and on the cessation of foreign wars, there arose much fighting and slaughter ofttimes among the citizens; and, in addition to this, from time to time intolerable pestilences arose among the Romans. And this government endured until the great battles of Julius Caesar against Pompey, and then against his sons, in which Caesar was victorious; then the said Caesar did away with the office of consuls and of dictators, and he first was called Emperor. And after him Octavianus Augustus, who ruled in peace, after many battles, over the whole world, at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ, 700 years after the foundation of Rome; and thus it is seen that Rome was governed by