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PEKGANUM, TEGEA AND MYCENAE.
[chap.
as its founder7; while Servius, in his commentary on
the passage, mentions another account", according to
which it was built by Agamemnon's Trojan prisoners.
Diodorus Siculus, in one of the fragments published
from the Vatican Palimpsest, mentions a curse of Aga-
memnon on the warriors who remained in Crete, and
likewise an old proverb of the island, in which the Per-
gamians are spoken of as the authors of the calamity9.
I suppose the warriors in question to be those who
deserted their Chieftain here, and that the word Per-
gamians denotes the founders of this Cretan city, rather
than the inhabitants of Troy. Velleius Paterculus10
says that Agamemnon himself, when driven into Crete
by a storm, founded Pergamum as well as Tegea and
Mycenae. Of the exact situation of these other towns
no ancient authors afford any indications. Tegea alone
is known by its coins, and the commonest type which
they bear is the same as one of those of Cydonia11. If
the legend of the foundation of these cities by Agamem-
non sprang out of the Dorian colonies of Althaemenes,
there will be no doubt that those colonies were planted
in the western parts of the island12.
7 Virgil, Aen. m. 133.
Et tandem antiquis Curetum allabimur oris.
Ergo avidus muros optatae molior urbis,
Pergameamque voco.
See also v. 190. of the same book.
8 Servius, 1. c. " Alii dicunt, Pergamum in Creta conditam a Trojanis
captivis: qui ex classe Agamemnonis illo erant delati." See Heyne's
" Excursus de Aeneae erroribus."
0 Diodorus Siculus, xxxiii. in Scriptorum Veterum Collect. Nov.
Vol. ii. ed. Mai. or in Dindorf. Vol. iii. p. 109. "EOe-ro dpdv Kara tuiv
aTroXcicpBhTiDV eh K|OtiT>)K (jTpaTwruiv—(cf. Virg. Aen. m. 190. "Hanc
quoque deserimus sedem, paucisque relictis Vela damns.) -irakaid Siap.evei
Trapd Tots Kpyarl irapoLpiia 6V eyds gtlxov /jLT]Vvouffa tjjv viiv yevi)Qei<rav
TrepnrcTeiav, Aial, jj.epydp.ioi irapd toi uaicov riyijo-avro.
10 Velleius Paterculus : Lib.i. princip. "Agamemnon, tempestate
in Cretam insulam rejectus, tres ibi urbes statuit: duas a patriae nomine,
unam a victoriae memoria: Mycenas, Tegeam, Pergamum."
11 See Pellerin, Recueil etc. Tom. in. p. 73. Supplem. Tom. i. p. 52.
Eckhel, Num. Vet. p. 141. Sestini, and Mionnet, Suppl. iv. p.343.
12 Conon, 47- Eustathius, on II. ii. p. 313. Hoeck's Kreta,
Vol. ii. p. 429. and Tiiiri.wall's History of Greece, Vol. i. p. 279.
PEKGANUM, TEGEA AND MYCENAE.
[chap.
as its founder7; while Servius, in his commentary on
the passage, mentions another account", according to
which it was built by Agamemnon's Trojan prisoners.
Diodorus Siculus, in one of the fragments published
from the Vatican Palimpsest, mentions a curse of Aga-
memnon on the warriors who remained in Crete, and
likewise an old proverb of the island, in which the Per-
gamians are spoken of as the authors of the calamity9.
I suppose the warriors in question to be those who
deserted their Chieftain here, and that the word Per-
gamians denotes the founders of this Cretan city, rather
than the inhabitants of Troy. Velleius Paterculus10
says that Agamemnon himself, when driven into Crete
by a storm, founded Pergamum as well as Tegea and
Mycenae. Of the exact situation of these other towns
no ancient authors afford any indications. Tegea alone
is known by its coins, and the commonest type which
they bear is the same as one of those of Cydonia11. If
the legend of the foundation of these cities by Agamem-
non sprang out of the Dorian colonies of Althaemenes,
there will be no doubt that those colonies were planted
in the western parts of the island12.
7 Virgil, Aen. m. 133.
Et tandem antiquis Curetum allabimur oris.
Ergo avidus muros optatae molior urbis,
Pergameamque voco.
See also v. 190. of the same book.
8 Servius, 1. c. " Alii dicunt, Pergamum in Creta conditam a Trojanis
captivis: qui ex classe Agamemnonis illo erant delati." See Heyne's
" Excursus de Aeneae erroribus."
0 Diodorus Siculus, xxxiii. in Scriptorum Veterum Collect. Nov.
Vol. ii. ed. Mai. or in Dindorf. Vol. iii. p. 109. "EOe-ro dpdv Kara tuiv
aTroXcicpBhTiDV eh K|OtiT>)K (jTpaTwruiv—(cf. Virg. Aen. m. 190. "Hanc
quoque deserimus sedem, paucisque relictis Vela damns.) -irakaid Siap.evei
Trapd Tots Kpyarl irapoLpiia 6V eyds gtlxov /jLT]Vvouffa tjjv viiv yevi)Qei<rav
TrepnrcTeiav, Aial, jj.epydp.ioi irapd toi uaicov riyijo-avro.
10 Velleius Paterculus : Lib.i. princip. "Agamemnon, tempestate
in Cretam insulam rejectus, tres ibi urbes statuit: duas a patriae nomine,
unam a victoriae memoria: Mycenas, Tegeam, Pergamum."
11 See Pellerin, Recueil etc. Tom. in. p. 73. Supplem. Tom. i. p. 52.
Eckhel, Num. Vet. p. 141. Sestini, and Mionnet, Suppl. iv. p.343.
12 Conon, 47- Eustathius, on II. ii. p. 313. Hoeck's Kreta,
Vol. ii. p. 429. and Tiiiri.wall's History of Greece, Vol. i. p. 279.