“Thou, Æneas, that counsellest Trojans;”[1342] then the Lycians under the command of Pandarus he calls Trojans; “Aphneian Trojans, who inhabited Zeleia at the farthest extremity of Ida, who drink of the dark waters of Æsepus, these were led by Pandarus, the illustrious son of Lycaon.”[1343] This is the sixth dynasty. The people, also, who lived between the Æsepus and Abydos were Trojans, for the country about Abydos was governed by Asius; “those who dwelt about Percote and Practius, at Sestos, Abydos, and the noble Arisbe, were led by Asius, the son of Hyrtacus.”[1344] Now it is manifest that a son of Priam, who had the care of his father’s brood mares, dwelt at Abydos; “he wounded the spurious son of Priam, Democoon, who came from Abydos from the pastures of the swift mares.”[1345] At Percote,[1346] the son of Hicetaon was the herdsman of oxen, but not of those belonging to strangers; “first he addressed the brave son of Hicetaon, Melanippus, who was lately tending the oxen in their pastures at Percote.”[1347] so that this country also was part of the Troad, and the subsequent tract as far as Adrasteia, for it was governed by “the two sons of Merops of Percote.”[1348] All therefore were Trojans from Abydos to Adrasteia, divided, however, into two bodies, one governed by Asius, the other by the Meropidæ, as the country of the Cilicians is divided into the Thebaic and the Lyrnessian Cilicia. To this district may have belonged the country under the sway of Eurypylus, for it follows next to the Lyrnessis, or territory of Lyrnessus.[1349] That Priam[1350] was king of all these countries the words with which Achilles addresses him clearly show;[CAS. 586] “we have heard, old man, that your riches formerly consisted in what Lesbos, the city of Macar, contained, and Phrygia above it and the vast Hellespont.”[1351] 8. Such was the state of the country at that time. Afterwards changes of various kinds ensued. Phrygians occupied the country about Cyzicus as far as Practius; Thracians, the country about Abydos; and Bebryces and Dryopes, before the time of both these nations. The next tract of country was occupied by Treres, who were also Thracians; the plain of Thebe, by Lydians, who were then called Mæonians, and by the survivors of the Mysians, who were formerly governed by Telephus and Teuthoras. Since then the poet unites together Æolis and Troja, and since the Æolians occupied all the country from the Hermus as far as the sea-coast at Cyzicus, and founded cities, we shall not do wrong in combining in one description Æolis, properly so called, (extending from the Hermus to Lectum,) and the tract which follows, as far as the Æsepus; distinguishing them again in speaking of them separately, and comparing what is said of them by Homer and by other writers with their present state.