There were many who represented, that, under the appearance of doing honour to his parent, a deserved recompence was made to the people, for having acquitted him, when prosecuted by the aediles on a charge of having debauched a married woman.

This distribution of meat intended as a return for favours shown on the trial, proved also the means of procuring him the honour of a public office; for, at the next election, though absent, he was preferred before the candidates who solicited in person the tribuneship of the commons.

The city of Palaepolis was situated at no great distance from the spot where Neapolis now stands.
The two cities were inhabited by one people: these came from Cumae, and the Cumans derive their origin from Chalcis in Euboea.

By means of the fleet in which they had been conveyed hither, they possessed great power on the coast of the sea, near which they dwelt.

Having first landed on the islands of AEnaria, and the Pithecusae, they afterwards ventured to transfer their settlement to the continent.