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who accompanied them from Ilium set fire to their ships, so that they might not become slaves in their homes upon returning. And those who were unwilling settled the place, having no way to sail to their own lands. In addition to these things, Callias, who wrote the deeds of Agathocles, says that a certain woman, Rhomê by name, a Trojan by birth, having come with the Trojans, was married to Latinus, who was then king of Italy, and bore him three sons, Rhomus and Romulus and Telegonus, who was said to have settled in other places; and that Rhomus and Romulus, sons of Latinus and Rhomê the Trojan, founded the city and called it Rome by their mother's name, and that they called the Latins, from Latinus, who were previously called Aborigines, Romans. Again Xenagoras the historian says that Rhomus, Antias and Ardias were three sons of Odysseus and Circe, who also founded and settled three eponymous cities. 228 But Dionysius of Chalcis declares the founder of the city, Rhomus, to be the son of Ascanius according to some, but of Emathion according to others. And other Greek historians, differing among themselves, say that the city was founded by Rhomus son of Italus and Leuce his mother, and others otherwise. But according to the Roman logographers who came later, since there was no ancient one among them, some claim Romulus and Rhomus to be sons of Aeneas, but others, of Aeneas' daughter, not knowing who the father was, and that these were given by Aeneas to Latinus as hostages for peace, who, dying childless, bestowed on them a share of his rule. Some, on the other hand, say that Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, after the death of his father, shared the rule with his brothers Rhomus and Romulus, and that he himself founded Alba and other cities, but Remus founded Capua, named after his great-grandfather Capys, and Anchisa, named after his grandfather Anchises, and Aeneia, which was later called Janiculum, in the name of his father, and Rome in his own name, which, after some time, having been deserted, was refounded by the brothers Romulus and Remus, at the time when they later led the colony of the Albans, in the 7th Olympiad, after 15 generations. But Antiochus of Syracuse says that Rome was founded even before the Trojan War, when Morgetes was king of Italy from Tarentum to Poseidonia, after the first so-called king Italus had grown old. And these things concern its ancient foundations. However, they also write discordantly about its later foundation, Timaeus saying that Rome was founded 38 years before the first Olympiad, and Lucius Cincius, one of the senatorial council of Rome, in the 4th year of the 12th Olympiad, and Quintus Fabius at the beginning of the 8th Olympiad, and Porcius Cato, a man diligent in the collection of ancient histories, 432 years after the Trojan War. And this time, according to the chronology of Eratosthenes, coincides with the first year of the 7th Olympiad. And these things are sufficient for us concerning both the time in which Rome was founded 229 and concerning its founder and the naming of the Romans from him. But before this they were called Latins from Latinus, son, as they say, of Hercules, and before Latinus, Aborigines, from the progenitors who were ancestors to the Romans before Latinus; for thus is the name of the Aborigines interpreted among the Romans, whom they say are the autochthons of Italy; and before these, certain Sicels, an indigenous and barbarian nation, inhabited the land; of whom it is not possible to find an older history, as Dionysius of Halicarnassus says in the first books of his Roman Histories. Concerning the ancient origin of the Romans from the 7th book of Diodorus Siculus Some of the writers, then, being mistaken, have supposed that Romulus and his followers, born of the daughter of Aeneas, founded Rome; but the truth is not so, for many kings lived in the time between Aeneas and Romulus, and the city was founded in the 2nd year of the 7th Olympiad. For this founding is more than 433 years after the Trojan War. For Aeneas after the capture

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Ἰλίου συνοῦσαι τὰς ναῦς αὐτοῖς ἐνέπρησαν, ἵνα μὴ δοῦλαι κατ' οἴκους αὐτῶν ἐπανιοῦσαι γένων ται. οἱ δὲ μὴ βουλόμενοι τὸν τόπον κατῴκισαν, οὐκ ἔχοντες ὅπως ἐπὶ τὰ σφέτερα πλεύσωσι. Πρὸς τούτοις καὶ Καλλίας ὁ τὰς πράξεις Ἀγαθοκλέους γράφων γυναῖκά τινα Ῥώμην τοὔνομά φησι Τρῳάδα τὸ γένος σὺν τοῖς Τρωσὶν ἐλθοῦσαν τῷ τηνικαῦτα βασιλεύοντι Λατίνῳ τῆς Ἰταλίας γήμασθαι καὶ τεκεῖν αὐτῷ παῖδας τρεῖς, Ῥῶμον καὶ Ῥωμύλον καὶ Τηλέγονον, ὃν οἰκῆσαι ἐν ἄλλοις χωρίοις ἐλέγετο· Ῥῶμον δὲ καὶ Ῥωμύλον παῖδας Λατίνου καὶ Ῥώμηςτῆς Τρῳάδος τὴν πόλιν κτίσαι καὶ Ῥώμην καλέσαι τῷ μητρῴῳ ὀνόματι, τούς τε ἀπὸ Λατίνου Λατίνους, τοὺς καὶ Ἀβορήγινας πρότερον λεγομένους, Ῥωμαίους προσαγορεῦσαι. Πάλιν Ξεναγόρας ὁ ξυγγραφεὺς Ῥῶμον, Ἀντίαν καὶ Ἀρδίαν τρεῖς υἱοὺςὈδυσσέως καὶ Κίρκης λέγει εἶναι, οἳ καὶ τρεῖς κτίσαντες ἐπωνύμους πόλεις ᾤκισαν. 228 Ὁ δέ γε Χαλκιδεὺς ∆ιονύσιος τὸν οἰκιστὴν τῆς πόλεως Ῥῶμον κατὰ μὲν τινὰς Ἀσκανίου, κατὰ δὲ ἄλλους Ἠμαθίωνος υἱὸν ἀποφαίνει. Καὶ ἕτεροι ὑπὸ Ῥώμου τοῦ Ἰταλοῦ καὶ Λεύκης τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ φασιν ἐκτίσθαι τὴν πόλιν Ἑλλήνων συγγραφεῖς καὶ ἄλλοι ἄλλως διαφερόμενοι. Κατὰ δὲ τοὺς Ῥωμαίων λογογράφους ὕστερον γεγονότας, ἐπεὶ παλαιὸς οὐδεὶς παρ' αὐτοῖς, οἱ μὲν Αἰνείου Ῥωμύλον καὶ Ῥῶμον φάσκουσιν υἱούς, ἕτεροι δὲ θυγατρὸς Αἰνείου, τίνος πατρὸς ἀγνοοῦντες, καὶ τούτους ὑπ' Αἰνείου δοθῆναι Λατίνῳ πρὸς ὁμηρίαν εἰρήνης, ὃς ἄπαις τελευτῶν μοῖραν τῆς ἀρχῆς αὐτοῖς ἀπένειμε. Τινὲς δ' αὖ φασιν Ἀσκάνιον τὸν Αἰνείου υἱὸν μετὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς τε λευτὴν νείμασθαι τὴν ἀρχὴν ἅμα Ῥώμῳ καὶ Ῥωμύλῳ τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς, κτίσαι δὲ αὐτὸν μὲν τὴν Ἄλβαν καὶ ἄλλας πόλεις, Ῥέμον δὲ Καπύην ἀπὸ Κάπυος προπάππου, Ἀγχίσαν δὲ ἀπὸ Ἀγχίσου τοῦ πάππου, Αἰνείαν δὲ τὴν μετὰ ταῦτα κληθεῖσαν Ἰάνικλον εἰς ὄνομα τοῦ πατρός, Ῥώμην δὲ εἰς ἑαυτοῦ ὄνομα, ἥτις μετά τινα χρόνον ἐρημωθεῖσα ὑπὸ Ῥωμύλου καὶ Ῥέμου τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἀνεκτίσθη, χρόνοις ἔπειτα τῆς Ἀλβανῶν ἀποικίας ἡγη σαμένων, κατὰ τὴν ζʹ· ὀλυμπιάδα μετὰ ιεʹ γενεάς. Ἀντίοχος δὲ ὁ Συρακούσιος καὶ πρὸ Τρωικῶν φησι τὴν Ῥώμην ἐκτίσθαι, βασιλεύοντος Μόργητος Ἰταλίας ἀπὸ Τάραντος ἄχρι Ποσειδωνίας μετὰ τὸν πρῶτον λεγόμενον Ἰταλὸν βασιλέα καταγεγηρακότα. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν περὶ τῶν παλαιῶν αὐτῆς κτίσεων. τὴν μέντοι μετέπειτα καὶ αὐτὴν ἀσυμφώνως γράφουσι κτίσιν αὐτῆς, Τίμαιος μὲν πρὸ ηʹ καὶ λʹ τῆς πρώτης ὀλυμπιάδος λέγων ἐτῶν ἐκτίσθαι Ῥώμην, Λεύκιος δὲ Κίγκλιος, εἷς τοῦ βουλευτικοῦ συνεδρίου Ῥώμης, κατὰ τὸ δʹ ἔτος τῆς ιβʹ ὀλυμπιά δος, Φάβιος δὲ Κόιντος ἀρχομένης ηʹ ὀλυμπιάδος, Πόρκιος δὲ Κάτων, ἀνὴρ φιλόπονος περὶ συναγωγὴν τῶν ἀρχαιολογουμένων ἱστοριῶν, μετὰ τὰ Τρωικὰ χρόνοις ὕστερον υλβʹ. οὗτος δὲ ὁ χρόνος κατὰ τὴν Ἐρατο σθένους χρονολογίαν τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει συμπίπτει τῆς ζʹ ὀλυμπιάδος. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἀρκούντως ἡμῖν περί τε τοῦ χρόνου καθ' ὃν ἐκτίσθη 229 Ῥώμη περί τε τοῦ κτιστοῦ καὶ τῆς ἐξ αὐτοῦ προσηγορίας Ῥωμαίων. πρὸ δέ γε τούτου Λατῖνοι μὲν ἀπὸ Λατίνου παιδός, ὥς φασιν, Ἡρακλέους ἐλέγοντο καὶ πρὸ Λατίνου Ἀβορήγινες ἐκ τῶν πρὸ Λατίνου Ῥωμαίοις γενεαρχησάντων πρωτογόνων· οὕτω γὰρ ἑρμηνεύεται παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις ἡ τῶν Ἀβορηγίνων προσηγορία, οὓς αὐτόχθονάς φασιν Ἰταλίας· καὶ πρό γε τούτων Σικελούς τινας, ἔθνος αὐθιγενὲς καὶ βάρβαρον, οἰκῆσαι τὴν χώ ραν· ὧν πρεσβυτέραν ἱστορίαν οὐκ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν, ὡς ∆ιονύσιος ὁ Ἁλικαρ νασεὺς ἐν πρώταις Ῥωμαϊκαῖς ἱστορίαις. Περὶ τῆς ἀρχαιογονίας Ῥωμαίων ἐκ τῆς ζʹ ∆ιοδώρου Σικελιώτου Ἔνιοι μὲν οὖν τῶν συγγραφέων πλανηθέντες ὑπέλαβον τοὺς περὶ τὸν Ῥωμύλον ἐκ τῆς Αἰνείου θυγατρὸς γεννηθέντα κεκτικέναι τὴν Ῥώμην· τὸ δ' ἀληθὲς οὐχ οὕτως ἔχει, πολλῶν μὲν ἐν τῷ μεταξὺ χρόνῳ τοῦ τε Αἰνείου καὶ Ῥωμύλου γεγονότων βασιλέων, ἐκτισμένης δὲ τῆς πόλεως κατὰ τὸ βʹ ἔτος τῆς ζʹ ὀλυμπιάδος. αὕτη γὰρ ἡ κτίσις ὑστερεῖ τῶν Τρωι κῶν ἔτεσι τρισὶ πλείω τῶν υʹ καὶ λʹ. Αἰνείας γὰρ μετὰ τὴν ἅλωσιν