Note 2 — THE GATHERER.
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Alba, the city of Romulus, the founder of Rome, was called so from a white sow found there by Æneas.—Vide Livy, lib. i
Cum tibi sollicito secreti ad fluminis undam Litoreis ingens inventa sub illicibus sus, Triginta capitum foetus enixa jacebit, Alba, solo recubans, albi circum ubera nati: Is locus urbis erit ei. Virgil Æneid, lib. iii. v. 390.
When, in the shady shelter of a wood And near the margin of a gentle flood, Thou shalt behold a sow upon the ground, With thirty sucking young encompassed round; The dam and offspring white as falling snow: These on thy city shall their name bestow, &c. DRYDEN.