[18] There was a place called Aenos (now Enos) at the mouth of the Hebrus, with a tomb of Polydorus (Pliny 4. 11. 18); but as it is mentioned by Hom. (Il. 4. 520) as existing during the Trojan war, the tradition can hardly have been that it was founded by Aeneas. On the other hand there was another town Aenea in Chalcidice on the Thermaic gulf, the inhabitants of which regarded Aeneas as their founder (Livy 44. 10), so that it is supposed that Virg., intentionally or unintentionally, has confounded the two. The name ‘Aeneadae’ was probably given to the people, not to the place, though there are instances where the town bore the name of the inhabitants, as Locri. ‘Aeneadas’ is put in apposition with ‘nomen,’ like “nomen dixere priores Ortygiam” v. 693 below.
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