Now all the Daunians and the neighbouring tribes, both men and women, wear black garments, apparently for the following reason because it is said that the Trojan women, who had been taken captives, and had come to those parts, fearing that they might experience hard slavery at the hands of the women who already belonged to the Achaeans in their native land, set fire to their ships, in order that they might escape from the expected slavery, and at the same time, that they, being united in wedlock with those men, now compelled to stay, might have them for their husbands.