“Aphneian Trojans, who inhabited Zeleia at the farthest extremity of Ida, who drink of the dark waters of Æsepus, these were led by Pandarus, the illustrious son of Lycaon.”[1343]
This is the sixth dynasty.
The people, also, who lived between the Æsepus and Abydos were Trojans, for the country about Abydos was governed by Asius;
“those who dwelt about Percote and Practius, at Sestos, Abydos, and the noble Arisbe, were led by Asius, the son of Hyrtacus.”[1344]
Now it is manifest that a son of Priam, who had the care of his father’s brood mares, dwelt at Abydos;
“he wounded the spurious son of Priam, Democoon, who came from Abydos from the pastures of the swift mares.”[1345]
At Percote,[1346] the son of Hicetaon was the herdsman of oxen, but not of those belonging to strangers;
“first he addressed the brave son of Hicetaon, Melanippus, who was lately tending the oxen in their pastures at Percote.”[1347]
so that this country also was part of the Troad, and the subsequent tract as far as Adrasteia, for it was governed by