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Book : The Comic History of Rome

Author: Gilbert Abbott À Becket

Illustrator: John Leech

Release Date: October 7, 2011 

Language: English.

FROM THE FOUNDATION OF ROME TO THE DEATH OF

ROMULUS.

Æneas and Anchises Æneas and Anchises

HE origin of the Romans has long been lost in that impenetrable fog, the mist of

ages; which, it is to be feared, will never clear off, for it unfortunately seems to

grow thicker the more boldly we try to grope about in it. In the midst of these

fogs, some energetic individual will now and then appear with a pretty powerful

link, but there are not enough of these links to form a connected chain of

incidents.

One of the oldest and most popular traditions concerning the origin of the

Romans, is that founded on the remarkable feat of filial pick-a-back alleged to

have been performed by Æneas, who is frequently dragged in head and

shoulders, with his venerable parent, to lead off the march of events, and, as it

were, open the ball of history.

It is said that after

the siege of Troy, Æneas snatched up his Lares and Penates

in one hand, and his father, Anchises, in the other; when, flinging the former

over the right shoulder, and the latter over the left, he ran down to the sea-shore,

called "A boat a-hoy," and escaped from the jaws of destruction into the mouth

of the Tiber. There are many reasons for disbelieving this story, and it is quite

enough to deprive it of weight to consider what must have been the weight of

Anchises himself, and the large bundle of household images that Æneas is

alleged to have been burdened with. Putting probability in one scale, and an

elderly gentleman, with a lot of Lares and a parcel of Penates in the other, there

can be no doubt which will preponderate. It happens, also, that Troy is usually

said to have been destroyed 430 years before Rome was founded,

[2] so that it

would have been to this day as unfounded as the tale itself, if the city had had no

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Book: The Comic History Of England

Author: Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett

Illustrator: John Leech

Release Date: February 9, 2014

Language: English.

CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE BRITONS—THE

ROMANS—INVASION BY JULIUS CÆSAR.

I T has always been the good fortune of the antiquarian who has busied himself

upon the subject of our ancestors, that the total darkness by which they are

overshadowed, renders it impossible to detect the blunderings of the antiquarian

himself, who has thus been allowed to grope about the dim twilight of the past,

and entangle himself among its cobwebs, without any light being thrown upon

his errors.

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But while the antiquarians have experienced no obstruction from others, they

have managed to come into collision among themselves, and have knocked their

heads together with considerable violence in the process of what they call

exploring the dark ages of our early history. We are not unwilling to take a walk

amid the monuments of antiquity, which we should be sorry to run against or

tumble over for want of proper light; and we shall therefore only venture so far

as we can have the assistance of the bull's-eye of truth, rejecting altogether the

allurements of the Will o' the Wisp of mere probability. It is not because former

historians have gone head oyer heels into the gulf of conjecture, that we are to

turn a desperate somersault after them. *

* Some historians tell us that the most conclusive evidence

* of things that have happened is to be found in the reports

* of the Times. This source of information is, however,

* closed against us, for the Times, unfortunately, had no

* reporters when these isles were first inhabited.

* The best materials for getting at the early history of a country are its coins, its

* architecture, and its manners. The Britons, however, had not yet converted the

* Britannia metal—for which their valour always made them conspicuous—into

* coins, while their architecture, to judge from the Druidical remains, was of the

* wicket style, consisting of two or three stones stuck upright in the earth, with

* another stone laid at the top of them; after the fashion with which all lovers of

* the game of cricket are of course familiar. As this is the only architectural.

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