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Rh transferred by them to the less lofty spot on which it stood in his time. In Arisbê and Gentinus there seem to have been families professing the same descent, since the same archegets were acknowledged. In Ophrynium, Hectôr had his consecrated edifice, and in Ilium both he and Æneas were worshipped as gods: and it was the remarkable statement of the Lesbian Menekratês, that Æneas, "having been wronged by Paris and stripped of the sacred privileges which belonged to him, avenged himself by betraying the city, and then became one of the Greeks."

One tale thus among many respecting Æneas, and that too the most ancient of all, preserved among the natives of the Troad. who worshipped him as their heroic ancestor, was, that after the capture of Troy he continued in the country as king of the remaining Trojans, on friendly terms with the Greeks. But there were other tales respecting him, alike numerous and