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UBIQUITY OF THE RETURNING HEROES. 3JJ rock which Ajax was grasping and precipitated both into the sea. 1 Kalchas the soothsayer, together with Leonteus and Polypoetes, proceeded by land from Troy to Kolophon. 2 In respect however to these and other Grecian heroes, tales were told different from those in the Odyssey, assigning to them a long expatriation and a distant home. Nestor went to Italy, where he founded Metapontum, Pisa and Herakleia: 3 Philok- tgtes 4 also went to Italy, founded Petilia and Krimisa, and sent settlers to Egesta in Sicily. Neoptolemus, under the advice of Thetis, marched by land across Thrace, met with Odysseus, who had come by sea, at Maroneia, and then pursued his journey to Epirus, where he became king of the Molossians. 5 Idomeneus came to Italy, and founded Uria in the Salentine peninsula. Di- omedes, after wandering far and wide, went along the Italian coast into the innermost Adriatic gulf, and finally settled in Dau- nia, founding the cities of Argyrippa, Beneventum, Atria and Dionaedeia : by the favor of Athene he became immortal, and was worshipped as a god in many different places. 6 The Lo- 1 Odyss. iv. 500. The epic Nooroi of Hagias placed this adventure of Ajax on the rocks of Kaphareus, a southern promontory of Eubcea ("Argura. Noorot, p. 23, Diintzer). Deceptive lights were kindled on the dangerous rocks by Nauplius, the father of Palamedes, in revenge for the death of his son (Sophokles, Nav;rAfOf TlvpKaevg, a lost tragedy; Hygin. f. 116 ; Senec. Agamemn. 567). 2 Argument. NOCTTOJ, ut sup. There were monuments of Kalchas near Sipontum in Italy also (Strabo, vi. p. 284), as well as at Selge in Pisidia (Strabo, xii. p. 570). 3 Strabo, v. p. 222 j vi. p. 264. Vellei. Paterc. i. 1 ; Servius ad JEa. x. 179. He had built a temple to Athene in the island of Keos (Strabo, x. p. 487). 4 Strabo, vi. pp. 254, 272 ; Virgil, -iEn. iii. 401, and Servius ad loc.; Ly- ophron, 912. Both the tomb of Philoktetes and the arrows of Herakles which he had ased against Troy, were for a long time shown at Thurium ("Justin, xx. I). 5 Argumeut. Notrrot, p. 23, Diintz.; Pindar, Nem. iv. 51. According to Pindar, however, Neoptolemus comes from Troy by sea, misses the island of Skyrus, and sails round to the Epeirotic Ephyra (Nem. vii. 37). 6 Pindar, Nem. x. 7, with the Scholia. Strabo, iii. p. 150 ; v. p. 214-215 ; vi, p. 284. Stephan. Byz. 'Apyvpiirna, ^LOfnjSeia. Aristotle recognizes him as buried in the Diomedean islands in the Adriatic (Anthol. Gr. Brunck. i. p. 178> The identical tripod which had been gained by Diomedes, as victor in