III. [1] So while Janus reigned over the rough and uncultivated inhabitants, Saturn was chased from his kingdom. When he came to Italy he was welcomed with warm hospitality, and there, not far at all from the Janiculum, he founded a stronghold called after him the Saturnia.

[2] He first taught agriculture; these wild men, who were used to live from what they caught, he brought to a settled life, according to what Virgil said in his eighth book:

This place was inhabited by local Fauns and Nymphs
And a kind of man born from the trunks of hard oaks
Who had neither law nor religion, and could not yoke the bull
Or gather wealth or save parts
But fed on roots and raw meat of wild animals.

[3] After turning away from Janus, who had taught them nothing but the rites of gods and religion, they wished instead to tie themselves to Saturn, who had turned their minds, still wild in life and habits, to the common goal, like we said above, by teaching them the art of working the field, as is told in these verses:

This ignorant and dispersed people of high mountains
he united and gave laws, and he chose to call [them] Latium. ⁶

[4] These then he taught the habit of marking coins and money⁷ by showing them how to hit them with a stamp; on one side was printed his head, on the other the ship which had brought him there. ⁸

[5] That is why even today gamblers, with a coin put down and hidden, announce to their fellow gambler the choice, which one could be underneath: head or ship; which now the common people say corruptly 'navia'.

[6] Also the house beneath the Capitoline street, where he had hidden his money, is even today called the treasury of Saturn.

[7] Indeed, as we have said before, Ianus arrived before him; and when after their death it was decided that they be augmented to the godly honours, in all sacrifices they offer the first place to Janus, then him, so that eventually, when the other gods get their sacrifice, after the gift of frankincense on the altars, Janus is first named⁹, with the added name of Father, according to what our [poet] said:

This fortress was founded by Father Janus, and that one by Saturnus.

And later: 

This one was called Janiculum¹⁰, that one Saturnia.

[8] About this, that farseeing [Virgil] who had a miraculous memory of passed events, and also of the future, [---] said ¹¹:

The king Latinus, an old man, ruled over countryside and cities that had been in quiet peace for a long time during whose reign, it is told, the Trojans arrived in Italy; it is to be wondered why Sallustius said: "and with them [came] the Aborigines, a savage race of men, without laws, without empire, free and unbound"?