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 B. xin. c. i. 50, 51. .THE TROAD. 375 the commencement of the bay, where, according to the poet, 1 the Leleges were first settled. 50. I have spoken before of the Leleges, and I shall now add that the poet speaks of a Pedasus, a city of theirs which was subject to Altes ; " Altes, king of the war-loving Leleges, governs The lofty Pedasus on the river Satnioeis : " 2 the spot exists but there is no city. Some read, but incor- rectly, " below Satnioeis," as if the city lay at the foot of a mountain called Satnioeis ; yet there is no mountain there called Satnioeis, but a river, on which the city is placed. The city is at present deserted. The poet mentions the river ; " Ajax pierced with his spear Satnius, the son of CEnops, whom the beau- tiful nymph Na'is bore to CEnops, when he tended herds on the banks of the Satnioeis." 3 And in another place ; " CEnops dwelt on the banks of the smooth-flowing Satnioeis In lofty Pedasus." 4 Later writers called it Satioeis, and some writers Saphnioeis. It is a great winter torrent, which the poet, by mentioning it, made remarkable. These places are continuous with the districts Dardania and Scepsia, and are as it were another Dardania, but lower than the former. 51. The country comprised in the districts of Antandria, Cebrene, Neandria, and the Hamaxitus, as far as the sea op- posite to Lesbos, now belongs to the people of Assus and Gar- gara. 5 The Neandrians are situated above Hamaxitus on this side Lectum, but more towards the interior, and nearer to Ilium, from which they are distant 130 stadia. Above these people are the Cebrenii, and above the Cebrenii the Dardanii, extending as far as Palaescepsis, and even to Scepsis. The poet Alcaeus calls Antandrus a city of the Leleges : " First is Antandrus, a city of the Leleges." Demetrius of Scepsis places it among the adjacent cities, so that it might be in the country of the Cilicians, for these people are rather to be regarded as bordering upon the Le- 1 II. x. 429. 2 II. xxi. 86. 3 II. xiv. 443. 4 II. vi. 34. 6 At the foot of the mountain on which is now the village Ine.