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 E. xin. c. i. 3. THE TROAD. 339 and Sestos. 1 Between Abydos and Lectum 2 is the country about Ilium, and Tenedos and Alexandreia Troas. 3 Above all these is the mountain Ida, extending as far as Lectum. From Lectum to the river Ca'icus 4 and the Canae mountains as they are called is the district comprising Assus, 5 Adramyt- tium, 6 Atarneus, 7 Pitane, 8 and the Elaitic bay, opposite to all which places lies the island Lesbos. 9 Next follows the coun- try about Cyme 10 as far as Hermus, 11 and Phocaea, 12 where Ionia begins, and JEolis terminates. Such then is the nature of the country. The poet implies that it was the Trojans chiefly who were divided into eight or even nine bodies of people, each form- ing a petty princedom, who had under their sway the places about JEsepus, and those about the territory of the present Cyzicene. as far as the river Cai'cus. The troops of auxiliaries are reckoned among the allies. 3. The writers subsequent to Homer do not assign the same boundaries, but introduce other names, and a greater number of territorial divisions. The Greek colonies were the cause of this ; the Ionian migration produced less change, for it was further distant from the Troad, but the ^Eolian colonists occasioned it throughout, for they were dispersed over the whole of the country from Cyzicene as far as the Caicus, and occupied besides the district between the Cai'cus and the river Hermus. It is said that the JEolian preceded the Ionian migration four generations, but it was at- tended with delays, and the settlement of the colonies took up a longer time. Orestes was the leader of the colonists, and died in Arcadia. He was preceded by his son Penthilus, who advanced as far as Thrace, sixty years 13 after the Trojan 1 The ruins of Abydos are on the eastern side of the Hellespont, near a point called Nagara. Sestos, of which the ruins also exist, called Zeme- nic, are on the opposite coast. 2 Baba Kalessi. 3 Eski Stamboul, or Old Constantinople. 4 Bakir-Tschai, or Germasti. 5 Beiram-koi, or Asso, or Adschane. 6 Edremid or Adramytti. 7 Dikeli-koi. 8 Tschandarlik. Mytilene. 10 Lamurt-koi. " Gedis-Tschai. 12 Karadscha-Fokia. 13 The return of the Heracleidae having taken place, according to Thu- cydides and other writers, eighty years after the capture of Troy, some critics have imagined that the text of Strabo in this passage should be changed from i^Kovra treat, sixty years, to by$oi]KovTa trtoi, eighty years. z 2