We know one another's race and parentage as matters of common fame, though neither have you ever seen my parents nor I yours.

Men say that you are son to noble Peleus, and that your mother is Thetis, fair-haired daughter of the sea.

I have noble Anchises for my father, and Venus for my mother; the parents of one or other of us shall this day mourn a son, for it will be more than silly talk that shall part us when the fight is over.

Learn, then, my lineage if you will--and it is known to many.
"In the beginning Dardanus was the son of Jove, and founded Dardania, for Ilius was not yet stablished on the plain for men to dwell in, and her people still abode on the spurs of many-fountained Ida.

Dardanus had a son, king Erichthonius, who was wealthiest of all men living; he had three thousand mares that fed by the water-meadows, they and their foals with them.