By the GREEKS. 61 



expedition againft Troy were difperfed over the earth, and fuf- 

 fered every where remarkable hardfhips and diftrefs, 



F"<?/PRIAMO miferanda mantis JEn. xi. 259. 



THE wretched fituation in which ULYSSES found his affairs 

 at home is defcribed, at great length, in the Odyfley, by HOMER 

 himfelf. But unlefs it had been well underftood, that the af- 

 fairs of the Greeks before Troy were defperate, no fet of men 

 would have dared to have pofTefled themfelves of his hotife, in- 

 fulted his wife, and devoured his fubftance, as he could have re- 

 turned and puniflied them in a few days ; for we learn from 

 HOMER * and HERODOTUS f, that the paflage from Troy to 

 Pthia and Sparta could be performed in three days, and Ithaca 

 was not much further off. 



ON the other hand, let us take a view of what (it is fuppofed) 

 happened to fome of the Trojans after the pretended capture 

 and deftru(flion of their town. JNEAS failed with twenty 

 {hips, and a great number of people, to Italy, where he obtain- 

 ed a very good fettlement indeed, for himfelf and his follow- 

 ers. So did ANTENOR ; and, what is ftill more wonderful, HE- 

 LENUS goes and occupies a part of Greece, eftablifhing himfelf 

 in Epirus. It certainly never was before heard of, that a con- 

 quered people fent out colonies to take pofleffion of part of the, 

 country of its conquerors J. 



I COULD offer many more circumflances and confiderations 

 in fupport of my propofition, partly from CHRYSOSTOM, (whofe 

 excellent diflertation I have, by no means, exhaufted) and part- 



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* II. ix. 663. f Lib. ii. c. 117. 



J SUCH is the account given by VIRGIL, DIONTSIUS HALICARN. and others ; and it is- 

 generally followed. But it muft be obferved, that HOMER fays nothing of HELENUS'S fet- 

 dement in Epirus, or of ^.NEAS'S in Italy. On the contrary, he fays, that JEnsAS and 

 his defendants reigned over the Trojans. See Iliad, and WOOD'S Life of HOMER. 

 This, however, feems as little reconcilable to the Greek account of the capture of the 

 city as the other. 



