86

sister." Therefore the Scythians remained speechless at what had happened. And indeed both immediately went in to Iphigenia, and Pylades said, "Behold, Orestes your brother." But she did not recognize him, until she saw the Pelopian sign of his lineage, the olive, which he had on his right shoulder. And having embraced him, she ordered their ships to be dragged up from the sea, and for them to remain with her for the whole winter. But when summer came, Orestes and Pylades secretly took the all-gold statue of Artemis and Iphigenia herself and escaped with the ships on which they had departed. And having crossed the Diabene, they came east to 1.237 Saracen Emet, and from there to Tricomis of Palestine. And indeed, when Orestes went mad, the people of Tricomis, having built a great temple to Artemis, asked Iphigenia, honoring her as a priestess, to sacrifice a maiden virgin to the goddess. And indeed they bring a young woman, Nyssa by name, whom Iphigenia sacrificed. And having set up a bronze stele, they named the place Nyssa. Then, when Orestes recovered his senses, Iphigenia saw a dream, a deer saying to her, "Flee from this country." Therefore, fleeing at once, they reached coastal Palestine, and from there to Syria and Mount Melantion. And having found the temple of Hestia according to the oracle, Orestes sacrificed and was released from his grievous madness. Then having crossed the Orontes he came to Mount Silpion, and having greeted the Argive Ionians as kinsmen, he was escorted by them to the coast of what was formerly called Palaepolis, but now Seleucia. And from there having found a ship he crossed over to Hellas. And having joined his sister Electra in marriage to Pylades, he reigned over the land of the Mycenaeans until his death. But Thoas, being then toparch of Scythia, sent very many Scythians in pursuit of Iphigenia because of the statue; but when they came to Tricomis and learned that those pursued had sailed away, they remained there, and having built the city called Scythopolis, they did not return. Aeneas, having been received as a guest by Diomedes in Calabria, when he was about to depart, asked to receive the Palladium from him. To 1.238 whom that man said, "From when I first took this with Odysseus from Ilium, afflictions and misfortunes have not ceased for me nor for the army under me until now. For which reason I also inquired of the Pythia about it, who prophesied to give it back to the Trojans." Diomedes having said these things, and having sacrificed to the god, immediately brought out the Palladium and presented it to Aeneas. Taking this, Aeneas set out to Latinus, then toparch of Italy, and marched with him against the Rutulians. In which war Latinus, the son of Telephus, was killed. And Aeneas, having gathered an army, warred against the Rutulians, and having routed them, taking Latinus' daughter Albania and the kingdom, he founded a great city, calling it Albania; in it he deposited the Palladium. And he himself, having reigned for 19 years after Latinus, died. And after him Ascanius Iulus, son of Aeneas by Creusa the Trojan, his first wife, for 35 years; who also, having founded the city Lavinium, moved the palace and the Palladium from Albania to Lavinium, which had been founded by him. And Albas, the son of Ascanius, ruled Lavinium for 35 years; who also founded the city Silva, from which the kings were also called Silvii. And this Albas again moved the Palladium from the city of Lavinium to the city Silva founded by him. From then on, the Aeneadae ruled there in succession for 331 years. And Evander and Pallas, the sons of Aeneas, governing the province 1.239 called Valenta, built a very large and wonderful house, and such a one that from that time every royal house is named a palace. That the Romans divide the days of the month into three: into kalends, into nones, and into ides. And the kalends are from the beginning of the month until the 9th day, and from it the nones until the 15th day, and the ides until the 30th day and the beginning of the month, which

86

ἀδελφήν." ἔμενον οὖν ἐννεοὶ οἱ Σκύθαι πρὸς τὸ συμβάν. καὶ δὴ αὐτίκα πρὸς Ἰφιγένειαν εἰσῆλθον ἀμφότεροι, καὶ ὁ Πυλάδης "ἴδε" ἔφη "Ὀρέστης ὁ σὸς ἀδελφός." ἡ δὲ οὐκ ἐγνώρισεν αὐτόν, ἕως τὸ Πελόπειον τοῦ γένους σήμαντρον τὴν ἐλαίαν εἶδεν ἔχοντα ἐν τῷ ὤμῳ δεξιῷ. περιπτυξαμένη τε αὐτὸν ἐκέλευσεν ἑλκυσθῆναι τὰ πλοῖα αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης, καὶ ὅλον αὐτοὺς μεῖναι τὸν χειμῶνα παρ' αὐτῇ. θέρους δὲ γενομένου λάθρᾳ Ὀρέστης καὶ Πυλάδης τὸ ὁλόχρυσον ἄγαλμα Ἀρτέμιδος καὶ αὐτὴν ἀνελόμενοι τὴν Ἰφιγένειαν ἀπέδρασαν μεθ' ὧν ἀπῆλθον πλοίων. καὶ τὴν ∆ιαβηνὴν περάσαντες ἦλθον πρὸς ἀνατολὴν ἐπὶ 1.237 τὸ Σαρακηνικὸν Ἔμετ, κἀκεῖθεν ἐπὶ Τρίκωμιν τῆς Παλαιστίνης. καὶ δὴ Ὀρέστου μανέντος οἱ Τρικωμῖται ἱερὸν μέγα τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι κτίσαντες ἠξίουν τὴν Ἰφιγένειαν, ὡς ἱέρειαν τιμῶντες αὐτήν, θυσιάσαι κόρην παρθένον τῇ θεῷ. καὶ δὴ ἄγουσι νέαν, Νύσσαν ὀνόματι, ἣν καὶ ἐθυσίασεν Ἰφιγένεια. καὶ στήλην χαλκῆν στή σαντες Νύσσαν τὸν τόπον ὠνόμασαν. τοῦ γοῦν Ὀρέστου τὰς φρένας ἀναλαβόντος ἡ Ἰφιγένεια ὄναρ εἶδεν, ἔλαφον λέγουσαν αὐτῇ "φύγε ἀπὸ τῆς χώρας ταύτης." εὐθὺς οὖν φυγόντες τὴν παράλιον καταλαμβάνουσι Παλαιστίνην, κἀκεῖθεν εἰς Συρίαν καὶ τὸ Μελάντιον ὄρος. καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τῆς Ἑστίας κατὰ τὸν χρησμὸν εὑρηκὼς Ὀρέστης καὶ θυσιάσας τῆς χαλεπῆς ἀπήλλακται μανίας. εἶτα τὸν Ὀρόντην περάσας ἐπὶ τὸ Σίλπιον ὄρος ἦλθε, καὶ τοὺς Ἀργείους Ἰωνίτας ὡς συγγενεῖς ἀσπασάμενος δι' αὐτῶν εἰς τὸ παράλιον τῆς Παλαιοπόλεως πρῴην λεγομένης, νῦν δὲ Σελευκείας, παρεπέμφθη. κἀκεῖθεν ναῦν εὑρηκὼς ἕως Ἑλλάδος διέβη. καὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν Ἠλέκτραν εἰς γάμον τῷ Πυλάδῃ ζεύξας, ἕως θανά του τῆς τῶν Μυκηνῶν βασιλεύει χώρας. Θόας δὲ τότε τοπάρχης ὢν Σκυθίας εἰς καταδίωξιν Ἰφιγενείας διὰ τὸ ἄγαλμα Σκύθας πλείστους ἀπέστειλεν· ἐπεὶ δὲ εἰς Τρίκωμιν ἐλθόντες ἔμαθον ἀπο πλεῦσαι τοὺς διωκομένους, ἐκεῖ ἔμειναν, καὶ πόλιν τὴν λεγομένην Σκυθόπολιν οἰκοδομήσαντες οὐκέτι ὑπέστρεψαν. Αἰνείας παρὰ ∆ιομήδους ἐν Καλαβρίᾳ ξενωθείς, ἐπεὶ ἀπο φοιτᾶν ἔμελλεν, ᾐτεῖτο λαβεῖν τὸ Παλλάδιον παρ' αὐτοῦ. πρὸς 1.238 ὃν ἐκεῖνος "ἐξ οὗ" φησί "τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῦτο μετὰ Ὀδυσσέως τῆς Ἰλίου ἀφειλόμην, οὔτε ἐμοὶ οὔτε τῷ ὑπ' ἐμὲ στρατῷ θλίψεις ἐπέ λιπον ἕως ἄρτι καὶ συμφοραί. διὸ καὶ ἐπυθόμην τῆς Πυθίας περὶ αὐτοῦ, ἣ καὶ ἀνεῖλεν ἀποδοῦναι αὐτὸ τοῖς Τρωσί." ταῦτα ∆ιο μήδης εἰπών, καὶ θυσάμενος τῷ θεῷ, ἐκβαλὼν εὐθὺς τὸ Παλλά διον τῷ Αἰνείᾳ δωρεῖται. τοῦτο λαβὼν Αἰνείας πρὸς τὸν τότε τοπαρχοῦντα Ἰταλίας Λατῖνον ἐφορμᾷ, καὶ κατὰ τῶν Ῥουτύλων σὺν αὐτῷ ἐκστρατεύει. ἐν ᾧ πολέμῳ Λατῖνος ὁ Τηλέφου υἱὸς ἀναιρεῖται. Αἰνείας δὲ στρατὸν συναγηγερκὼς κατὰ τῶν Ῥουτύ λων πολεμεῖ, καὶ τούτους τρεψάμενος, τὴν θυγατέρα Λατίνου Ἀλβανίαν καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν λαβών, πόλιν κτίζει μεγάλην, Ἀλβανίαν καλέσας· ἐν αὐτῇ τὸ Παλλάδιον ἀπέθετο. καὶ αὐτὸς μετὰ Λατῖνον ιθʹ ἔτη βασιλεύσας τελευτᾷ. Μετ' αὐτὸν δὲ Ἀσκάνιος Ἰοῦλος, υἱὸς Αἰνείου ἀπὸ Κρεούσης Τρωάδος, τῆς πρώτης αὐτοῦ γυναικός, ἔτη λεʹ· ὃς καὶ τὴν Λαβινίαν κτίσας πόλιν, αὐτόσε τὸ βασίλειον καὶ τὸ Παλλάδιον ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀλβανίας εἰς τὴν Λαβινίαν μετέθηκε τὴν κτισθεῖσαν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ. Λαβινίας δὲ ἦρξεν Ἄλβας ὁ υἱὸς Ἀσκανίου ἔτη λεʹ· ὃς καὶ κτίζει τὴν πόλιν Σίλβαν, ἐξ οὗ καὶ οἱ βασιλεῖς Σίλβιοι ἐκαλοῦντο. οὗτος δὲ πάλιν ὁ Ἄλβας τὸ Παλλάδιον ἐν τῇ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ κτισθείσῃ πόλει Σίλβῃ ἐκ τῆς Λαβινίας μετήγαγε πόλεως. ἐντεῦθεν λοιπὸν ἐκεῖ βασιλεύουσι κατὰ διαδοχὴν οἱ Αἰνειάδαι ἔτη τλαʹ. Εὔανδρος δὲ καὶ Πάλας οἱ τοῦ Αἰνείου υἱοί, τὴν καλουμένην Βαλέντα ἐπαρ 1.239 χίαν ἰθύνοντες, οἶκον οἰκοδομοῦσι πάνυ μέγαν καὶ θαυμαστὸν καὶ τοιοῦτον, ἐξ ἐκείνου πάντα βασίλειον οἶκον παλάτιον ὀνομάζε σθαι. Ὅτι οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι εἰς τρία διαιροῦσι τὰς τοῦ μηνὸς ἡμέρας, εἰς καλάνδας, εἰς νόννας καὶ εἰς εἰδοῦς. καὶ αἱ μὲν καλάνδαι εἰσὶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ μηνὸς μέχρι τῆς θʹ ἡμέρας, αἱ δὲ ἀπ' αὐτῆς νόνναι μέχρι τῆς ιεʹ ἡμέρας, εἰδοῖ δὲ αἱ μέχρι τῆς λʹ ἡμέ ρας καὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ μηνός, ἥτις