Lines 1-10:
From then (on) Lavinia ruled, until Ascanius, Aeneas’ son, reached maturity (“grew up”). Then he/that one, because of Lavinium’s overflowing multitude, left the city behind for his mother; he himself founded another new city at the foot of the Alban mountain, which (i.e. referring to the city) was called Alba Longa. Many kings managed the Alban government after Ascanius. A certain one of these, whose name was Proca, had two sons, Numitor and Amulius. He left the kingdom to Numitor, who was the elder (“greater”). Nevertheless, having driven out his brother
(“with his brother having been driven out”), Amulius ruled. He killed his brother’s son; through the guise of an honor, he chose (his brother’s) daughter, Rhea Silvia, (to be) a priestess of
Vesta*.
*Becoming a Vestal Virgin meant, among various religious duties and some privileges, that a woman would have to swear an oath of chastity for the duration of her service, which lasts 30 years. Breaking this oath would result in the sanction of death by live burial in an underground chamber in the Campus Sceleratus with only a few days of food and water.