from trunks of trees and hard oaken core; no rule of life,
no culture had they: they never learnt to yoke the ox, 20
nor to hive their stores, nor to husband what they got;
the boughs and the chase supplied their savage sustenance.
The first change came from Saturn, who arrived from
skyey Olympus, flying from the arms of Jove, a realmless
exile. He brought together the race, untamed as they 25
were and scattered over mountain heights, and gave them
laws, and chose for the country the name of Latium,
because he had found it a safe hiding-place. The golden