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 378 STRABO. CASAUB. 608. his four sons, together with the surviving Heneti, are said to have escaped into Thrace, and thence into Henetica on the Adri- atic; 1 but ^Eneas, with his father Anchises and his son As- canius, are said to have collected a large body of people, and to have set sail. Some writers say that he settled about the Macedonian Olympus ; according toothers he founded Capuae, 2 near Mantineia in Arcadia, and that he took the name of the city from Capys. There is another account, that he dis- embarked at ^Egesta 3 in Sicily, with Elymus, a Trojan, and took possession of Eryx 4 and Lilybseus, 5 and called the rivers about JEgesta Scamander and Simois; that from Sicily he went to Latium, and settled there in obedience to an oracle enjoining him to remain wherever he should eat his table. This happened in Latium, near Lavinium, when a large cake of bread which was set down instead of, and for want of, a table, was eaten together with the meat that was laid upon it. Homer does not agree either with these writers or with what is said respecting the founders of Scepsis. For he re- presents ^Eneas as remaining at Troy, succeeding to the king- dom, and delivering the succession to his children's children after the extinction of the race of Priam : " the son of Saturn hated the family of Priam : henceforward JEneas shall reign over the Trojans, and his children's children to late genera- tions." 6 In this manner not even the succession of Scamandrius could be maintained. He disagrees still more with those writers who speak of his wanderings as far as Italy, and make him end his days in that country. Some write the verse thus : " The race of ./Eneas and his children's children," meaning the Romans, "shall rule over all nations." 54. The Socratic philosophers, Erastus, Coriscus, and Ne- leus, the son of Coriscus, a disciple of Aristotle, and Theo- phrastus, were natives of Scepsis. Neleus succeeded to the possession of the library of Theophrastus, which included that of Aristotle ; for Aristotle gave his library, and left his school, 1 See note 4, vol. i. p. 76. 2 Some assert that Capys, the father of Anchises, was the founder of Capua or Capya in Italy. The town in Arcadia was afterwards called Caphya or Caphyae. 3 Segesta. * Trapani. 5 Cape Boe. e II. xx. 306.