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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 unfortunately 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
