After the capture and destruction of Troy, Æneas, with twenty ships laden with the Trojan relics, came into Italy, when Latinus reigned there, Menestheus in Athens, Polyphidos in Sicyon, and Tautanos in Assyria, and Abdon was judge of the Hebrews.  On the death of Latinus, Æneas reigned three years, the same kings continuing in the above-named places, except that Pelasgus was now king in Sicyon, and Samson was judge of the Hebrews, who is thought to be Hercules, because of his wonderful strength.  Now the Latins made Æneas one of their gods, because at his death he was nowhere to be found.  The Sabines also placed among the gods their first king, Sancus, [Sangus], or Sanctus, as some call him.  At that time Codrus king of Athens exposed himself incognito to be slain by the Peloponnesian foes of that city, and so was slain.  In this way, they say, he delivered his country.  For the Peloponnesians had received a response from the oracle, that they should overcome the Athenians only on condition that they did not slay their king.  Therefore he deceived them by appearing in a poor man’s dress, and provoking them, by quarrelling, to murder him.  Whence Virgil says, “Or the quarrels of Codrus.”¹¹⁴³

1143 Virgil, Eclogue, v. 11.

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