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 .ENEAS FROM TROY TO ROME. 319 an tis way from Troy to Latium. But though the legendary pretensions of these places were thus eclipsed in the eyes of those who constituted the literary public, the local belief was not extinguished : they claimed the hero as their permanent proper- ty, and his tomb was to them a proof that he had lived and died among them. Antenor, who shares with JEneas the favorable sympathy of the Greeks, is said by Pindar to have gone from Troy along with Menelaus and Helen into the region of Kyrene in Libya. 1 But according to the more current narrative, he placed himself at the head of a body of Eneti or Veneti from Paphlagonia, who had come as allies of Troy, and went by sea into the inner part of the Adriatic Gulf, where he conquered the neighboring bar- barians and founded the town of Patavium (the modern Padua) ; the Veneti in this region were said to owe their origin to his im- migration. 2 "We learn further from Strabo, that Opsikellas, one of the companions of Antenor, had continued his wanderings even into Iberia, and that he had there established a settlement bearing his name. 3 Thus endeth the Trojan war; together with its sequel, the dis- persion of the heroes, victors as well as vanquished. The ac- count here given of it has been unavoidably brief and imperfect ; for in a work intended to follow consecutively the real history of the Greeks, no greater space can be allotted even to the most splendid gem of their legendary period. Indeed, although it would be easy to fill a large volume with the separate incidents which have been introduced into the " Trojan cycle," the misfortune is that they are for the most part so contradictory as to exclude all possibility of weaving them into one connected narrative. We are compelled to select one out of the number, generally without any solid ground of preference, and then to note the variations of the rest. No one who has not studied the original documents 1 Pindar, Pyth. v., and the citation from the Nouroi of Lysimachus in the Scholia; given still more fully in the Scholia ad Lyccphron. 875. There was a Aopof 'Avrrivopiduv at Kyrene. Fasti, iv. 75. i.. 157.
 * Livy, i. 1. Scrvius ad ^Eneid. i. 242. Strabo, i. 48; v 212.