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Following Roman sources such as Livy and Virgil, the Historia tells how Aeneas settled in Italy after the Trojan War, and how his son Ascanius founded Alba Longa, one of the precursors of Rome.

Ascanius married, and his wife became pregnant.

In a variant version, the father is Silvius, who is identified as either the second son of Aeneas, previously mentioned in the Historia, or as the son of Ascanius.

A magician, asked to predict the child's future, said it would be a boy and that he would be the bravest and most beloved in Italy.

Enraged, Ascanius had the magician put to death.

The mother died in childbirth.