And in fact the place where they first landed is called Troy, and the district is therefore known as Trojan, while the people as a whole are called the Veneti.Īeneas, driven from home by a similar misfortune, but guided by fate to undertakings of greater consequence, came first to Macedonia thence was carried, in his quest of a place of settlement, to Sicily and from Sicily laid his course towards the land of Laurentum. There, driving out the Euganei, who dwelt between the sea and the Alps, the Eneti and Trojans took possession of those lands. Antenor, with a company of Eneti who had been expelled from Paphlagonia in a revolution and were looking for a home and a leader -for they had lost their king, Pylaemenes, at Troy 1 -came to the inmost bay of the Adriatic. They then experienced various vicissitudes. First of all, then, it is generally agreed that when Troy was taken vengeance was wreaked upon the other Trojans, but that two, Aeneas and Antenor, were spared all the penalties of war by the Achivi, owing to long-standing claims of hospitality, and because they had always advocated peace and the giving back of Helen.
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