Few pages or even paragraphs remain unaltered, and nearly two-thirds of it are new matter, or have been rewritten. […] A person born on the bank of a lake or river may have been called its son29 ; one coming by sea have been styled a son of the sea ; and when the metaphor came to be understood literally, persons thus spoken of may have been looked upon as children of the riveror sea-god, and legends have been devised accordingly30. […] The ideas of the ancient Italians and other nations seem to have been similar. […] The tradition was that it had been the domestic image of Priamos, and had been brought from Troy by Sthenelos. […] The former would seem to have been placatory, like Eumenides that of the Erinnyes.