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 THE PELOttDS. 153 Jbitolia, and acquired the kingdom : he was father of Phytios, who was father of OEneus. JEtolus was son ol (Eneus. 1 The original migration of jEtolus from Elis to (Etolia and the subsequent establishment in Elis of Oxylus, his descendant in the tenth generation, along with the Dorian invaders of Pelo- ponnesus were commemorated by two inscriptions, one in the agora of Elis, the other in that of the JEtolian chief town, Thermum, engraved upon the statues of JEtolus and Oxylus, 2 respectively. CHAPTER VII. THE PELOPIDS. AMONG the ancient legendary genealogies, there was none which figured with greater splendor, or which attracted to itself 1 Timokles, Comic, ap. Athenae. vii. p. 223. Tepuv TIC; U.TVX.EI ; Ka-efia&ev rov Olvea. Ovid. Heroid. ix. 153. " Heu ! devota domus ! Solio sedet Agrios alto CEnea dcsertum nuda senecta premit." The account here given is in Hyginus (f. 175) : but it is in many points different both from Apollodorus (i. 8, 6 ; Pausaa ii. 25) and Pherekydes (Fragm. 83, Didot). It seems to be borrowed from the lost tragedy of Euri- pides. Compare Schol. ad Aristoph. Acharn. 417. Antonin. Liberal, c. 37. In the Iliad, CEneus is dead before the Trojan war (ii. 641). The account of Ephorus again is different (ap. Strabo. x. p. 462) ; he joins Alkmason with Diomedes: but his narrative has the air of a tissue of quasi- historical conjectures, intended to explain the circumstance that the .JStolian Diomedes is king of Argos during the Trojan war. Pausanias and Apollodorus affirm that CEneus was buried at CEnoe be- tween Argos and Mantineia, and they connect the name of this place with him. But it seems more reasonable to consider him as the eponymous ter of CEniadae in ./Etolia. 7*
 * Ephor. Fragm. 29. Didot ap. Strab. x.