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 360 STRABO. CASAUB. 596. Let us, however, dismiss this subject, for the discussion leads to the refutation of fables only, and probably there may be reasons unknown to us which induced the Ilienses to worship some of these persons, and not others. The poet seems, in speaking of Hercules, to represent the city as small, since he ravaged the city " with six ships only, and a small band of men." 1 From these words it appears that Priam from a small became a great person, and a king of kings, as we have already said. A short way from this coast is the Achseium, situated on the continent opposite Tenedos. 33. Such, then, is the nature of the places on the sea-coast. Above them lies the plain of Troy, extending as far as Ida to the east, a distance of many stadia. 2 The part at the foot of the mountain is narrow, extending to the south as far as the places near Scepsis, and towards the north as far as the Lyci- ans about Zeleia. This country Homer places under the command of JEneas and the Antenoridae, and calls it Dar- dania. Below it is Cebrenia, which for the most part con- sists of plains, and lies nearly parallel to Dardania. There was also formerly a city Cybrene. Demetrius (of Scepsis) supposes that the tract about Ilium, subject to Hector, ex- tended to this place, from the Naustathmus (or station for vessels) to Cebrenia, for he says that the sepulchre of Alex- ander Paris exists there, and of GEnone, who, according to historians, was the wife of Alexander, before the rape of Helen ; the poet says, " Cebriones, the spurious son of the far-famed Priam," 3 who, perhaps, received his name from the district, (Cebrenia,) or, more probably, from the city (Cebrene 4 ). Cebrenia ex- tends as far as the Scepsian district. The boundary is the Scamander, which runs through the middle of Cebrenia and 1 II. v. 641. 2 This plain, according to Demetrius, was to the east of the present Mendere, and was enclosed by this river and the mountain Tchiblak. 3 II. xvi. 738. 4 If the name Cebrene or Cebrenia were derived from Cebriones, it would have been, according to analogy, Cebrionia ; but it would have been better to have supposed the name to have been derived from Cebren, the more so as this river was supposed to be the father of CEnone the wife of Alexander (Paris). Whatever may be the origin of the name, the city Cebrene was, according to Ephorus, a colony of Cyme in ^Eolia.