Anchises


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ANCHISES, a Trojan prince of the family of Priam, who, according to the poets and mythologists, secretly married Venus; and she bore to him Aeneas, on the banks of the Simois. After the siege of Troy, his escape from that devoted city is described to have been attended with great difficulty on account of his extreme old age. The representation of Anchises carried on the shoulders of his son appears on denarii of the Caecilia, Herennia, and Julia families: also on coins of Julius Caesar (when dictator). See Aeneae Pietas.

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