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RUTULI
, a See also:people of See also:ancient See also:Italy inhabiting See also:Ardea and the See also:district See also:round it on the See also:coast of See also:Latium, at no See also:great distance from See also:Aricia, and just W. of the territory of the See also:Volsci
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They are ranked by the See also:form of their name with the See also:Siculi and Appuli (Apuli), probably also with the Itali, whose real See also:Italic name would probably have been Vituli (see ITALY)
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This suggests that they belong to a fairly See also:early stratum of the Indo-See also:European See also:population of Italy
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The same is suggested by the tradition adopted or moulded by See also:Virgil, by which the See also:leader of the people of the See also:soil in their resistance to the See also:settlement of See also:Aeneas was the Rutulian See also:prince Tumus, a name which, if any conjecture could be founded on it, might be held to point rather to See also:Etruria than to any pure Italic source; he is represented as the hospes of the exiled See also:Etruscan See also: |
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