“Phorcys and the divine Ascanius led the Phrygians from the distant Ascania.”[279]
If this be so, the migration (from Europe to Asia) must be later than the Trojan war; but in the Trojan war the auxiliaries mentioned by the poet came from the opposite continent, from the Berecynti and Ascania. Who then were the Phrygians,
“who were then encamped on the banks of the Sangarius,”
when Priam says,
“And I joined them with these troops as an auxiliary”?[280]
And how came Priam to send for the Phrygians from among the Berecynti, between whom and himself no compact existed, and pass over the people who were contiguous to him, and whose ally he formerly had been?
Apollodorus, after having spoken of the Phrygians in this manner, introduces an account concerning the Mysians which contradicts this. He says that there is a village of Mysia called Ascania, near a lake of the same name,[281] out of which issues the river Ascanius, mentioned by Euphorion:[282]
“near the waters of the Mysian Ascanius;”
and by Alexander of Ætolia:
“they who dwell on the stream of Ascanius, on the brink of the Ascanian lake, where lived Dolion, the son of Silenus and Melia.”