sed genus admotum superis summumque per altos attingebat avos caelum: numerare parentem Assaracum retro praestabat Amulius auctor Assaracusque Iovem; nec, qui spectasset in armis, abnueret genus.
Yet his race was akin to the gods, and he was related to the lords of heaven through his ancestors. For through Amulius, the founder of his line, he could trace descent from Assaracus, and through Assaracus to Jupiter; and none who saw him fight would dispute his pedigree.
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