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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 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 early stratum of the Indo-See also: European population of Italy
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The same is suggested by the tradition adopted or moulded by 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: king Mezentius, and as taking up arms to defend him against his angry subjects
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See also: Pliny (iii
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§ 6) classes them, with the Siculi, among the See also: primitive tribes that at one See also: time or another inhabited See also: part of Latium, and it is to be observed that they are not included in the See also: thirty Latin communities who once took part in the Latin Festival on the See also: Alban See also: Mount (see further SICULI)
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