Editing Elymus (mythology) (section)

==Legends==
Elymus was a [[Troy|Trojan]], a natural son of [[Anchises]]<ref>[[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] ad [[Lycophron]], [https://topostext.org/work/860#965 965]</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} and the half-brother of [[Eryx (mythology)|Eryx]] through [[Aphrodite]].<ref>Tzetzes ad Lycophron, [https://topostext.org/work/860#958 959]</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} Previous to the emigration of [[Aeneas]], also a son of Anchises, Elymus and [[Acestes]] had fled from Troy to Sicily, and had settled on the banks of the river [[Crinisus]], in the country of the [[Sicani]]. When afterwards the Trojan refugees led by Aeneas also arrived there, Elymus built for them the towns of [[Segesta]] and [[Elyme]], and the Trojans who settled in that part of Sicily called themselves Elymi, after Elymus.<ref>[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|Dionysius Halicarnassus]], ''Roman Antiquities'' 1.52 ff.</ref>

[[Strabo]]<ref>Strabo 13.608 [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_VVZ9SFfmWyQC#page/n239/mode/1up (p.608)] [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_VVZ9SFfmWyQC#page/n717/mode/1up (Index)]</ref> calls him Elymnus, and says that he went to Sicily with Aeneas, and that they together took possession of the cities of [[Eryx (Sicily)|Eryx]] and [[Lilybaeum]]. Elymus was further believed to have founded [[Asca]] and [[Entella]] in Sicily.<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 5.73, and [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]]'s note</ref>

In the ''[[Aeneid]]'', [[Vergil]] has Elymnus competing in the [[funeral games (antiquity)|funeral games]] held on Sicily for Anchises, in the footrace in which [[Nisus and Euryalus]] are introduced.<ref>Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 5.286 ff.</ref> As '''Helymus''', he is also listed among the competitors by [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], who says he finished second to Euryalus and was awarded an [[Amazons|Amazon]]ian [[quiver]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#273 273]</ref>