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¶ Abdon ¶ Capitulum 26

AFter the destruction of Troye eneas with his fader anchi∣ses and his soune ascam{us} with twelue shippes come in to Scicile and there Anchises deyed / than eneas wold haue sailled in to Italye but tempeste. droof hym in to Affryca / there he was right wel byloued of dydo / the quene / But soone after he forso∣ke and lefte dido and came in to Italye R ¶Yf it be soth that Trogus & papie and other wyse men wryten this quene dido buylde Cartage thre score yere and twelue bifore the buyldyng of the cyte of Rome· that was buyld the fourth yere of Achaz kynge of Iuda / Than is it truth that Eneas sawe neuer dydo the quene of cartage / For eneas was bifore and dyed thre hon∣derd yere and more er cartage was buyld· And so meaneth & wryteth seynt Austyne primo libro confessionum in fine / And seyth that wysemen denye that Eneas sawe cartage Hugo Capi¦tulo Elissa / This Dido was callyd elyssa that is vyrago a man∣ly woman for hap that felle afterward for she slowe her self mā∣ly Trogus libro octodecimo Atte laste this Elyssa Pigma∣lyons doughter whan she shold haue be compelled of the peple to take an husbond / she went in to a greet fyre that she had / made & so she slough her self manly & was long after worshipped for a goddesse Mar Than eneas cam in to Italye and was confedred and sworn to kyng euander that tho regned in seuen hilles / these two faught and warred ayenst latyn kyng of Latins and t••r∣nus kyng of Tuscan kyng latyns doughter husbonde / ¶ In that batayll pallas euandres sonne and turnus were slayn ¶R Netheles Trogus libro .43 wryteth that eneas in his first comynge fonde so grete grace with kynge Latyn that he entred in to a partye of the kyngdome and wedded lauyn kyng laty∣nes doughter. that was turnus spouse And so bothe Latyn and eneas confedered to geder· toke katayll ayenst turn{us} for the gyle∣ful maryage of ••••uyn / and latyn and turnus were bothe deede in that bataylle. And eneas afterward was kynge of eyther kyngdome of latyns and of Tuscans. And buyld a cyte and cal¦led it the cyte lauinium by the name of his wyf. and warred afterward ayenst the kyng of mescene in Tuscan & in that bata∣ylle Eneas was slayne and lefte after hym his sonne Ascanius that he had goten on creusaat troy Ysidorus eth Iulus was Ene¦as sonne & heete first ascanius by the name of a ryuer in ••••rigia

that so heet and was afterward called Ilus by the name of I∣lus kyng of troye Hugo capitulo Iulus Afterward whan the kynge of mesenes was slayn in a singler bataylle of stal∣worth men than ascanyus was cleped Iulus for his ferst sprin¦gyng of berde that tho was first seen for the first spryngynge of berde is proprely called Iulus and is a name of twey sillables by cause of metre R ¶ Here take hede that but the yeres of Eneas regnyng be acounted within the yere of kyng latyn the acomptyng of this story shal faile for the story sayth that kyng latyn regned two & thyrtty yere & specially whyle eneas whan Troye was taken come in to ytalye the xxv yere of kyng latin as all historyes tellen· ¶ Trogus / 43 li· ¶Ascanius ene∣as sonne began to regne amonge the latyns & regued .xxxviij / yere. and lefte the cyte lauinium that his fader eneas had som∣tyme y buyld and buyld the cyte alban a long vpon the riuer Tiber That cyte was heede of that kyngdome thre honderd yere by the name of that Cyte kynges latyns were cleped kynges Albanes Reges Albani ¶ Eutrop / This Ascanius nonrys∣shed vp ful myldly his broder siluius posthumius· For he was born of his stepdame lauina after his faders deth and was cal∣led posthumus for he was born after that his fader was bury∣ed and was callyd Syluius for he was nowrysshed in a wode A wode is Silua in latyn. By his name the kynges of latyns were afterward callyd Syluyes ¶Ascanius whan he had reg¦ned / xxxviij yere he lefte the kingdome to siluius posthumus for his owne sonne Ilus was yet of tendre age so seyth marianus libro primo. ¶ Of this Ilus the meyne that be cleped familia Iliorum had that name· Sampson was Iugge in Israel / xx / yere. in his tyme befelle that that fables tellith of vlyxes of gre¦cia· how he fledde scilla & syrenes therof speketh palefatus. libro primo Incredibilium and sayth that Scilla was a woman that vsed to robbe her gestes & sayd that Syrenes be comyn wymen that begyled men that saylled on the See Also that tyme ores¦tes slough Pirrus of Egypt in Appolyn delphicus temple / ¶Also somme saye that Omerus was that tyme but to speke of his tyme old men discorden for somme saye that he was an hon∣derd yere somme an honderd yere & fourty Somme an honderd yere & four score· somme two honderd yere & fourty after that Troye was destroyed & somme trowe he was bifore Troyes des∣truction Hiderto the book of Iuges liber Iudicum accompteth

thre honderd yere vnder twelue Iugges