Ænēas

, a Trojan prince, son of Anchises and the godde Venus. The opinions of authors concerning his character are different. His infancy was intrusted to the care of a nymph, and at the age of five he was recalled to Troy. He afterwards improved himself in The aly under Chiron, a venerable sage whose house was frequented by the young princes and heroes of the age. Soon after his return home he married Creusa, Priam’s daughter by whom he had a son called As can i us. During the Trojan war he behaved with great valour, in defence of his country, and came to an engagement with Diomedes and Achilles. Yet Strabo, Dictys of Crete, Dionysius of Halicarna us, and Dares of Phrygia accuse him of betraying his country to the Greeks, with Antenor, and of preserving his life and fortune by this treacherous measure. He lived at variance with Priam, because he received not sufficient marks of distinction from the king and his family, as Homer , Iliad , bk. 13 , says. This might have provoked him to seek revenge by perfidy. Authors of credit report, that when Troy was in flames, he carried away upon his shoulders his father Anchises, and the statues of his household gods, leading in his hand his son As can i us, and leaving his wife to follow behind. Some say that he retired to mount Ida, where he built a fleet of 20 ships, and set sail in quest of a settlement. Strabo and others maintain that Æneas never left his country, but rebuilt Troy, where he reigned, and his posterity after him. Even Homer, who lived 400 years after the Trojan war, says, Iliad , bk. 20 , li. 30 , . , that the gods destined Æneas and his posterity to reign over the Trojans. This pa age Dionysius of Halicarna us explained, by saying that Homer meant the Trojans who had gone over to Italy with Æneas, and not the actual inhabitants of Troy. According to Virgil and other Latin authors, who, to make their court to the Roman emperors, traced their origin up to Æneas, and described his arrival into Italy as indubitable, he with his fleet first came to the Thracian Cher sones us, where Polymnestor, one of his allies, reigned. After visiting Delos, the Strop hades, and Crete, where he expected to find the empire promised him by the oracle, as in the place where his progenitors were born, he landed in Epirus, and Drepanum, the court of king Acestes, in Sicily, where he buried his father. From Sicily he sailed for Italy, but was driven on the coasts of Africa and kindly received by Dido queen of Carthage, to whom, on his first interview he gave one of the garments of the beautiful Helen. Dido, being enamoured of him, wished to marry him; but he left Carthage by order of the gods. In his voyage he was driven to Sicily, and from thence he pa ed to Cumæ, where the Sibyl conducted him to hell, that he might hear from his father the fates which attended him and all his posterity. After a voyage of seven years, and the lo of 13 ships, he came to the Tyber. Latin us, the king of the country, received him with hospitality, and promised him his daughter Lavinia, who had been before betrothed to king Turnus by her mother Amata. To prevent this marriage, Turnus made war against Æneas: and after many battles, the war was decided by a combat between the two rivals, in which Turnus was killed. Æneas married Lavinia, in whose honour he built the town of Lavinium, and succeeded his father-in-law. After a short reign Æneas was killed in a battle against the Etrurians. Some say that he was drowned in the Numicus, and his body weighed down by his armour; upon which the Latins, not finding their king, supposed that he had been taken up to heaven, and therefore offered him sacrifices as to a god. Dionysius of Halicarna us fixes the arrival of Æneas in Italy in the 54th olympiad. Some authors suppose that Æneas after the siege of Troy, fell to the share of Neoptolemus, together with And rom ache, and that he was carried to The aly, whence he escaped to Italy. Others say that, after he had come to Italy, he returned to Troy, leaving As can i us king in Latium. Æneas has been praised for his piety, and submi ion to the will of the gods. Homer , Iliad , bks. 13 & 20; Hymn to Aphrodite .— Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 12 .— Diodorus , bk. 3 .— Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 33 ; bk. 3 , ch. 22 ; bk. 10 , ch. 25 .— Plutarch , Romulus & Coriolanus ; Quæstiones Romanæ .— Valerius Maximus , bk. 1 , ch. 8 .— Florus , bk. 1 , ch. 1 .— Justin , bk. 20 , ch. 1 ; bk. 31 , ch. 8 ; bk. 43 , ch. 1 .— Dictys Cretensis , bk. 5 .— Dares Phrygius , ch. 6 .— Dionysius of Halicarna us , bk. 1 , ch. 11 .— Strabo , bk. 13 .— Livy , bk. 1 , ch. 1 .— Virgil , Æneid .— Aurelius Victor. — Ælian , Varia Hist or i a , bk. 8 , ch. 22 .— Pro pert i us , bk. 4 , poem 1, li. 42 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 14 , fable 3, . ; Tristia , bk. 4 , li. 798 .――A son of Æneas and Lavinia, called Sylvius, because his mother retired with him into the woods after his father’s death. He succeeded As can i us in Latium, though opposed by Julius the son of his predece or. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 770 .— Livy , bk. 1 , ch. 3 .――An amba ador sent by the Lacedæmonians to Athens, to treat of peace, in the 8th year of the Peloponnesian war.――An ancient author who wrote on tactics, besides other treatises, which, according to Ælian, were epitomized by Cineas the friend of Pyrrhus.――A native of Gaza, who, from a Platonic philosopher, became a Christian, A.D. 485, and wrote a dialogue called Theophrastus , on the immortality of the soul and the resurrection.