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150 Memnon. country, and shewed there ancient palaces which to that day were called Memnonia. At all events the Ethiopians who followed Memnon to Troy carried his bones back to Ti- thonus^. Pausanias, in describing the painting of Polygnotus in the Lesche at Delphi (x. 31. 6.), combines the two accounts we have been hitherto considering. Birds, he says, were seen wrought in Memnon's chlamys, and these were the birds called Memnonides, which, as was generally believed near the Hellespont, were used to go on certain days to the tomb of Memnon, and sweep it with their wings, where it was not covered with trees or herbage, and sprinkle it with the water of the ^sepus. Polygnotus had represented a naked Ethiopian boy standing by the side of Memnon. This, Pau- sani'as observes, was because Memnon was king of the Ethio- pians. Yet he had come to Troy, not from Ethiopia, but from the Persian city of Susa and the river Choaspes, having subdued all the nations that lay in his way. And the Phry- gians still shew the road by which he led his army, for which he had chosen the shortest cuts : it was the same along which the state-couriers travelled. This tradition he repeats i. 42. 3. What is thus put together by Diodorus and Pausanias, was torn asunder by other writers, as Philostratus (V. ApoU. VI. 3. Heroic, p. 672. Ic. i. 7.)? Eudocia. p. 46, who distin- guish between an Ethiopian Memnon who reigned at the time of the Trojan war, and a Trojan of the same name on whom Achilles avenp-ed the death of the bloomino; Antilo- chus. On the other hand there was a lep^end which ascribed the foundation of the palace at Ecbatana to Memnon^; and beside the Memnonium on the ^Esepus there was one near fXr)TpO^ KOfXi ixeTeoopov e/c Tuiv <p6u(t)v Tvyelv /crjoeuo-ea)? 'rfj9 '7rpoar7]Kouar7]9 avTCo, ovofid'^^ea-daL 6e ol Trv GTrkYiv T)]v evTavda aXXcos. s By which Simonides is uncertain. Strabo says n-aiprjuai XeyeTai MefxuMv Trepl HoXtov n-rj'S Su/ota§ irapd Haddu TroTapLou, a)9 elpt]Ke St/xa)i/t5t^s ev WepivovL SlOv' pdpPco TfZv AaXiaKajv, A younger Simonides had visited Meroe, and had written on Ethiopia: Plin. N. H. vi. 35. One of these Syrian Memnonia is alluded to by Oppian, Cyneg. II. 152. TlduTi] o' epya IBooov doKepd^ fSeftpiQev aXcoas MepLvSvLOV wepL vaov oQ' 'Acrdvpioi vaerfipes Mefiuova kmkvovctl kXvtou yovov 'Hpiyeveii]^,