chilles.

Many ancient writers, with whom Ovid here agrees, affirm that Memnon
was the son of Tithonus, the brother of Priam, and Aurora, or Eos,
the Goddess of the morn. They also say that he came to assist the
Trojans with ten thousand Persians, and as many AEthiopians. Diodorus
Siculus asserts that Memnon was said to have been the son of Aurora,
because he left Phrygia, and went to settle in the East. It is not
clear in what country he fixed his residence. Some say that it was
at Susa, in Persia; others that it was in Egypt, or in AEthiopia,
which perhaps amounts to the same, as AEthiopia was not in general
distinguished from the Higher or Upper Egypt. Marsham is of opinion
that Memnon was the same with Amenophis, one of the kings of Egypt:
while Le Clerc considers him to have been the same person as Ham,
the son of Noah; and Vossius identifies him with Boalcis, a God of
the Syrians. It seems probable that he was an Egyptian, who had
perhaps formed an alliance with the reigning family of Troy.

FABLES V. AND VI. [XIII.623-718]

After the taking of Troy, AEneas escapes with his father and his son,
and goes to Delos. Anius, the priest of Apollo, recounts to him how
his daughters have been transformed into doves, and at parting they
exchange presents. The Poet here introduces the story of the
daughters of Orion, who, having sacrificed their lives for the
safety of Thebes, when ravaged by a plague, two young men arise out
of their ashes.

But yet the Fates do not allow the hope of Troy to be ruined even with
its walls. The Cytherean hero bears on his shoulders the sacred relics
and his father, another sacred relic, a venerable burden. In his
affection, out of wealth so great, he selects that prize, and his own
Ascanius, and with his flying fleet is borne through the seas from
Antandros,[57] and leaves the accursed thresholds of the Thracians, and
the earth streaming with the blood of Polydorus; and, with good winds
and favouring tide, he enters the city of Apollo, his companions
attending him.

Anius, by whom, as king, men were, {and} by whom, as priest, Phoebus was
duly provided for, received him both into his temple and his house, and
showed him the city and the dedicated temples, and the two trunks of
trees once grasped[58] by Latona in her labour. Frankincense being given
to the flames, and wine poured forth on the frankincense, and the
entrails of slain oxen[59] be