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A long time from now, in the silence of space…
1 1 From whom, and for what reason the great name of Rome, so famous among mankind, was given to that city, writers are not agreed. Some say that the Pelasgians, after wandering over most of the habitable earth and subduing most of mankind, settled down on that site, and that from their strength in war they called their city Rome.
(Vol. I) Plutarch, The Parallel Lives
p91 The Life of Romulus
Plutarch • Life of Romulus
[1] The great name and glory of Rome, which is a city of all people, is not acknowledged by writers, since and for what reason it became a city, but the Pelasgians, who had held most of the world, having been led astray by most of the people, lived there, and named the city so because of the Roman army
[1] Τὸ μέγα τῆς Ῥώμης ὄνομα καὶ δόξῃ διὰ πάντων ἀνθρώπων κεχωρηκὸς ἀφ' ὅτου καὶ δι' ἣν αἰτίαν τῇ πόλει γέγονεν, οὐχ ὡμολόγηται παρὰ τοῖς συγγραφεῦσιν, ἀλλ' οἱ μὲν Πελασγούς, ἐπὶ