_The Six Gates of Troy_ (Vol. viii., p. 288.).--The passage of Dares
relative to the gates of Troy describes the deeds of Priam on succeeding to
the throne:
"Priamus ut Ilium venit, minime moram fecit, ampliora moenia exstruxit,
et civitatem munitissimam reddidit.... Regiam quoque aedificavit, et ibi
Jovi Statori aram consecravit. Hectorem in Paeoniam misit, Ilio portas
fecit, quarum haec sunt nomina: Antenorea, Dardania, Ilia, Scaea,
Thymbraea, Trojana. Deinde, postquam Ilium stabilitum vidit, tempus
expectavit."--Chap. 4.
It will be observed that these six names correspond with the six names in
Shakspeare, except that Shakspeare, following some ignorant transcriber,
substitutes _Chetas_ for _Scaean_.
The work, consisting of forty-four short chapters, which has come down to
us under the title of _De Excidio Trojae Historia_, by Dares Phrygius, is a
pseudonymous production, which cannot be placed earlier than the fifth or
sixth century. See the preface to the edition of Dederick, Bonnae, 1835; or
the article "Dares," by Dr. Schmitz, in Dr. Smith's _Dictionary of Greek
and Roman Biography_. Other writers spoke of _four_ gates of Troy. (See
Heyne, _Exc._ XIV. _ad AEn._ II.)