Volume 1

The Roman antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis / translated into English; with notes and dissertations. By Edward Spelman.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Date:: 1758

Credit: The Roman antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis / translated into English; with notes and dissertations. By Edward Spelman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$LXIL But, it is, now, requilite to fhew how Aeneas was defcended; which I fhall do, alfo, in few words. Dardanus, after the death of Chryfes, the daughter of Palas, by whom he had his two firft fons, married Batea, the daughter of Teucrus; and, by her, had Erichthonius, who is faid to have been the moft fortunate of all men, having inherited both the kingdom of his father, and That of his grand¬ father by his mother’s fide. Of Erichthonius, and Callirhoe, the daughter of Scamandrus, was born Tros, from whom the nation has received its name; of Tros, and Acallaris, the daughter of Eumedes, Affaracus; of him, and Lytodora, the daughter of Laomedon, Capys; of Capys, and a nymph, faid to have been a Naid, Anchifes; of Anchifes, and Venus, Aeneas. Thus, I have fhewn that the royal family of the Trojans, were, originally, Greeks. LXIII. Concerning the time, when Lavinium was built, there are different opinions; but the moft probable feems to be That, which 209 places it in the fecond year after the departure of the Trojans from Troy : For 210 Ilium was 209’ fabler avltjv. Cafaubon has fhewn, from very good authorities, that is a term, particularly ufed by chronologers, in the fenfe our au¬ thor has given it in this place. 2I°* IAjov jaw ya° jj'aw t?Aii\u>{]o$ ycty t« tot^og. Thus, I am confident this paffage ought to be read, contrary to the opinion of Portus, and of Dodwell, who contend for 3-e«xr, in which they are followed by M. *** ; and, alfo, contrary to the opinion of Sylburgius, who, would have it which read¬ ing le Jay has followed. However, I have the fatisfaflion of finding myfelf fupported in reading totgos againft thefe great authorities, by a much greater, I mean That of Cafaubon, and Peta- vius. But, before I give my reafons for reading ea^os inftead of 9-8$*?, I mud: take notice of the glaring abfurdity in faying, with M. * * *, that Troy was taken on the twelfth of June tozvards the end of fummer. ■ It is well known that the year of the Greeks was luni- lolar, and that the Athenians, whofe taken$