Oldal 37 [37]
ORIGIN OF THE CITY 15
in 1108 BE. by “Brute, lineally descended from the demigod
Aéneas, the son of Venus, daughter of Jupiter. Brute named it
Troy novant, or Tre novant.” George Owen Harry, whose famous
Genealogy of King James from Noah was published in 1604, enlarges
upon this brief account. He tells us that Brutus, having unfortu¬
nately killed his father Silvius by the glancing of an arrow aimed at
a deer, fled from Italy into Greece, where he married Inogen, the
daughter of Pandrasus, king of that country, and obtaining by force
from his father-in-law “ furniture, money, victual, and shipping,” sailed