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 HYPOTHESIS OF AN OLD AND NEW ILIUM- 329 rather less than four miles from the city in the direction of Mount Ida, and further removed from the sea ; here, they affirmed the " holy Troy " had stood. No positive proof was produced to sustain the conclusion, fot Strabo expressly states that not a vestige of the ancient city re- mained at the Village of the Ilieans : l but the fundamental sup- position was backed by a second accessory supposition, to explain how it happened that all such vestiges had disappeared. Never- theless Strabo adopts the unsupported hypothesis of Demetrius as if it were an authenticated fact distinguishing pointedly be- tween Old and New Ilium, and even censuring Hellanikus for having maintained the received local faith. But I cannot find that Demetrius and Hestioaa have been followed in this respect by any other writer of ancient times excepting Strabo. Ilium still continued to be talked of and treated by every one as the genuine Homeric Troy : the cruel jests of the Eoman rebel Fim- bria, when he sacked the town and massacred the inhabitants the compensation made by Sylla, and the pronounced favor of Julius Caesar and Augustus, all prove this continued recogni- tion of identity. 2 Arrian, though a native of Nicomedia, hold- ing a high appointment in Asia Minor, and remarkable for the exactness of his topographical notices, describes the visit of Alexander to Ilium, without any suspicion that the place with all its relics was a mere counterfeit : Aristides, Dio Chrysostom, Pau- sanias, Appian, and Plutarch hold the same language. 3 But modern writers seem for the most part to have taken up the 1 Strabo, xiii. p. 599. Ovtiev J' f^vof au&rai rr/f upxaiaf TftfAeuf ELKO- Twf are yap kKitenop-Qrifjievuv TUV KVKku irofauv, ov re/lewf 6e Kareanaafj.e- vuv, oi Aj'tfot Truvrff efc rrjv kneivuv u.va)srffyiv (j.Tj]Vexdijaav. 3 Appian, Mithridat. c. 53 ; Strabo, xiii. p. 594 ; Plutarch, Sertorius, c. 1 ; Vclleius Paterc. ii. 23. The inscriptions attest Panathenaic games celebrated at Ilium in honor of Athene by the Ilieaus conjointly with various other neighboring cities (seo Corp. Inscr. Boeckh. No. 3601-3602, with Boeckh's observations). The valuable inscription No. 3595 attests the liberality of Antiochus Soter to- wards the Iliean Athene as early as 278 B. c. 820 (Dindorf p. 369). The curious Oratio xi. of Dio Chrysostom, in which he writes his new version of the Trojan war, is addressed to the inhabitar ta of Ilium.
 * Arrian, i. 11 ; Appian ut sup. ; also Aristides, Or. 43, Rhodiaca, p.