§1.53.1τεκμήρια δὲ τῆς εἰς Σικελοὺς Αἰνείου τε καὶ Τρώων ἀφίξεως πολλὰ μὲν καὶ ἄλλα, περιφανέστατα δὲ τῆς Αἰνειάδος Ἀφροδίτης ὁ βωμὸς ἐπὶ τῇ κορυφῇ τοῦ Ἐλύμου ἱδρυμένος καὶ ἱερὸν Αἰνείου ἱδρυμένον ἐν Αἰγέστῃ, τὸν μὲν αὐτοῦ κατασκευάσαντος Αἰνείου τῇ μητρί, τὸ δὲ ἱερὸν τῶν ὑπολειφθέντων ἀπὸ τοῦ στόλου τῇ μνήμῃ τοῦ σώσαντος σφᾶς ἀνάθημα ποιησαμένων.
Indeed, there are many other proofs of the arrival of Aeneas and the Trojans in the land of the Sicels, but the most conspicuous are the altar of Aphrodite Aeneas erected on the summit of Elymus and the sanctuary of Aeneas erected in Aegesta, the former of which Aeneas himself built for his mother, while the sanctuary was made as an offering by those left behind from the fleet in memory of the one who saved them.
τὸ μὲν δὴ σὺν Ἐλύμῳ καὶ Αἰγέστῳ Τρωικὸν ἐν τούτοις κατέμεινε τοῖς χωρίοις, καὶ διετέλεσαν Ἔλυμοι καλούμενοι.
This Trojan group under Elymus and Aegestus remained in these places, and continued to be called Elymi.
προεῖχε γὰρ κατὰ τὴν ἀξίωσιν Ἔλυμος ἀπὸ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ γένους ὢν, §1.53.2ἀφʼ οὗ τὴν κλῆσιν οἱ σύμπαντες ἔλαβον.
For Elymus excelled in rank, being of the royal stock, from whom they all took their name.
οἱ δὲ σὺν τῷ Αἰνείᾳ πλέοντες ἀπὸ Σικελίας διὰ τοῦ Τυρρηνικοῦ πελάγους πρῶτον μὲν ὡρμίσαντο τῆς Ἰταλίας κατὰ λιμένα τὸν Παλίνουρον, ὃς ἀφʼ ἑνὸς τῶν Αἰνείου κυβερνητῶν τελευτήσαντος αὐτόθι ταύτης τυχεῖν λέγεται τῆς ὀνομασίας.
But those who sailed with Aeneas from Sicily through the Tyrrhenian Sea first anchored in Italy at the harbor of Palinurus, which is said to have received this name from one of Aeneas's helmsmen who died there.
ἔπειτα νήσῳ προσέσχον, ᾗ τοὔνομα ἔθεντο Λευκασίαν ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ἀνεψιᾶς Αἰνείου περὶ τόνδε τὸν τόπον ἀποθανούσης.
Then they touched at an island which they named Leucasia, after a woman who was a cousin of Aeneas and died near this place.
§1.53.3ἐκεῖθεν δὲ κατάραντες εἰς λιμένα βαθὺν καὶ καλὸν ἐν Ὀπικοῖς, τελευτήσαντος καὶ αὐτόθι Μισηνοῦ τῶν ἐπιφανῶν τινος, ἀπʼ ἐκείνου τὸν λιμένα ὠνόμασαν, νήσῳ τε Προχύτῃ καὶ ἀκρωτηρίῳ Καιήτῃ τύχῃ προσορμισάμενοι κατὰ ταὐτὰ τίθενται τὰς ἐπικλήσεις τοῖς τόποις, γυναικῶν ἀποθανουσῶν βουλόμενοι μνημεῖα ποιῆσαι τὰ χωρία.
And putting out from there, they came to a deep and fine harbor in the country of the Opicans, and Misenus, one of their prominent men, having died there also, they named the harbor after him. Having also by chance put in at the island of Prochyta and the promontory of Caieta, they gave these places their names in the same manner, wishing to make the sites memorials of women who had died.
τούτων δὲ ἡ μὲν συγγενὴς Αἰνείου λέγεται γενέσθαι, ἡ δὲ τροφός.
Of these women, one is said to have been a kinswoman of Aeneas () and the other his nurse.
τελευτῶντες δὲ ἀφικνοῦνται τῆς Ἰταλίας εἰς Λωρεντόν, ἔνθα τῆς πλάνης παυσάμενοι χάρακα ἔθεντο, καὶ τὸ χωρίον ἐν ᾧ κατεστρατοπεδεύσαντο ἐξ ἐκείνου Τροία καλεῖται, ἀπέχει δὲ τῆς θαλάττης ἀμφὶ τοὺς τέτταρας σταδίους.
Finally, they arrived at Laurentum in Italy, where they ended their wandering and built a stockade; and the place where they encamped has been called Troy ever since, being about four stades from the sea.
§1.53.4Ἔργαψα δὲ ταῦτα καὶ τὴν παρέκβασιν ἐποιησάμην τοῦ ἀναγκαίου χάριν, ἐπειδὴ τῶν συγγραφέων οἱ μὲν οὐδʼ ἐλθεῖν Αἰνείαν φασὶν εἰς Ἰταλίαν ἅμα Τρωσίν, οἱ δʼ ἕτερον Αἰνείαν, οὐ τὸν ἐξ Ἀφροδίτης καὶ Ἀγχίσου γενόμενον, οἱ δʼ Ἀσκάνιον τὸν Αἰνείου, οἱ δʼ ἄλλους τινάς.
I have written these things and made this digression of necessity, since some of the historians () say that Aeneas did not even come to Italy with the Trojans, others that it was another Aeneas, not the son of Aphrodite and Anchises, others that it was Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, and others still other persons.
εἰσὶ δʼ οἳ τὸν ἐξ Ἀφροδίτης Αἰνείαν λέγουσι καταστήσαντα τὸν λόχον εἰς Ἰταλίαν ἀνακομισθῆναι πάλιν οἴκαδε καὶ βασιλεῦσαι τῆς Τροίας, τελευτῶντα δὲ καταλιπεῖν Ἀσκανίῳ τῷ παιδὶ τὴν βασιλείαν, καὶ τὸ ἀπʼ ἐκείνου γένος ἐπὶ πλεῖστον κατασχεῖν τὴν ἀρχήν· ὡς μὲν ἐγὼ εἰκάζω τοῖς Ὁμήρου ἔπεσιν οὐκ ὀρθῶς λαμβανομένοις παρακρουσθέντες.
There are some who say that Aeneas, the son of Aphrodite, after establishing the colony in Italy, returned home again and reigned over Troy, and at his death left the kingdom to his son Ascanius, whose descendants held the sovereignty for a very long time; having been deceived, as I conjecture, by a misunderstanding of Homer's verses.
§1.53.5πεποίηται γὰρ αὐτῷ ἐν Ἰλιάδι Ποσειδῶν προλέγων τὴν μέλλουσαν ἔσεσθαι περὶ τὸν Αἰνείαν καὶ τοὺς ἐξ ἐκείνου γενησομένους ἐπιφάνειαν ὧδέ πως· "νῦν δὲ δὴ Αἰνείαο βίη Τρώεσσιν ἀνάξει καὶ παῖδες παίδων, τοί κεν μετόπισθε γένωνται. "
ὑπολαβόντες οὖν τὸν Ὅμηρον ἐν Φρυγίᾳ δυναστεύοντας εἰδέναι τοὺς ἄνδρας, ὡς δὴ οὐ δυνατὸν ὂν ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ οἰκοῦντας βασιλεύειν Τρώων, τὴν ἀνακομιδὴν τοῦ Αἰνείου ἀνέπλασαν.
For in the Iliad, Homer represents Poseidon as foretelling the future renown that was to attend Aeneas and his descendants in these words: "But now indeed the mighty Aeneas shall rule over the Trojans, and his children's children, who shall be born hereafter." Assuming, therefore, that Homer knew these men were ruling in Phrygia, and on the ground that it was not possible for them to rule over Trojans while living in Italy, they invented the story of Aeneas's return.
ἄρχειν δὲ δὴ τῶν Τρώων οὓς ἐπήγετο καὶ ἄλλοθι πολιτευομένων οὐκ ἀδύνατον ἦν· ἔχοι δʼ ἄν τις τῆς ἀπάτης καὶ ἑτέρας αἰτίας λαβεῖν.
Yet it was not impossible for him to rule over the Trojans whom he had taken with him, even though they were established elsewhere; but one might find other causes for this error as well.